Milla – “Modular Interactive Lifelong Learning for All”

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Under the acronym “Milla”, a group of MEPs has presented a concept that is supposed to change learning on the internet. “The idea is to encourage people to learn,” explains Thomas Heilmann (CDU), who leads the working group of the project Milla. The state should operate and fund the platform. Milla is supposed to become the Netflix of learning, so attractive and alive that learners and teachers are eager to participate. How can we make it happen? The following functions will make it difficult for success to elude your system.

  • Learners and providers of online courses should be rewarded for their efforts
  • Users can earn Milla points and get bonuses for it. In this way, incentives should be created to encourage less educated parts of the population to continue their education
  • The Milla points can also be used by all “education currency”. They are a proof of competence. Both online and offline measures can be rated with Milla points.
  • Everyone should be able to be learners and teachers. Whether youtube star or cook in five-star hotel. Everyone can pass on knowledge and everyone can learn.
  • The learning materials should always be evaluated and released after examination.

There will certainly be a lot of discussions about the project, but it does show a good one. Education will fundamentally change over the next few years and will no longer take place in the defined paths as before. Educational models will emerge, giving us more room for creative development and involving all resources.

We also have to rethink and reform our educational models fundamentally. On the one hand is because of the specific demands of the job market, and on the other for the “artificial intelligence”.

SGAVE graduate receives award

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SGAVE graduate receives award at Volkswagen Group Best Apprentice Award in Wolfsburg

Wang Xinlei completed his three-year automotive mechatronics education from 2014 to 2017 in a SGAVE-class at the Beijing Vocational College of Transportation. He has been working in the department of research and development at Audi China in Beijing since July 2017. He was one of the 46 winning apprentices of the Volkswagen Best Apprentice Award in 2017. He traveled to Wolfsburg for the award ceremony together with 3 other colleagues from FAW-VW, SAIC-VW and VW-ATJ.

Picture: Wang Xinlei with Mr. Matthias Müller, the CEO of the Volkswagen Group, at the award ceremony in Wolfsburg

Teacher Qualification in Hangzhou

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The SGAVE project is changing and so are its teachers. We have new partner schools and of course some teachers have changed jobs or employers. So in 2018 there were again many new teachers in the project, which prompted us to organize a teacher training.
This year’s teacher training program was the first part of a certification program that consists of three parts and is designed to develop our teachers from the “SGAVE Qualified Teacher” to the “SGAVE Master Teacher”. In the foreground of the course were the following learning contents:

  • Comparison of VET systems in Germany and China
  • Dual system, training regulations, training framework, framework curriculum
  • Steps to develop a business and work process oriented curriculum
  • Structure and structure of learning field descriptions, target descriptions
  • From the framework curriculum to the school curriculum to the learning situations
  • Development and planning of a lesson based on the SGAVE curriculum
  • Criteria for the evaluation of action-oriented teaching

Our new teachers, together with their instructor Prof. Bierschenk, worked through these topics and finally presented them in a final exam. It was a special concern of ours that the true essence of German vocational training be recognized and experienced. How are framework curricula in Germany transferred from vocational schools to applicable learning situations? How can the teachers, here in China, transfer the existing information from the SGAVE project documents and the SGAVE curriculum into their daily work and use them sensibly? What information is available and what needs to be prepared in order to be able to actually carry out action-oriented lessons based on the German model? We raised all these questions and gave the answers.
Finally, all participants passed the course. The results speak for themselves. As part of the course we have developed teaching materials for different learning situations that are truly impressive. This is also the motivation for the next parts, which will soon be available and give rise to further action. We will start a contest that will demonstrate the potential of our teachers and demonstrate the specificity of how we understand education.
The next teacher training is coming. We are already working on the next parts and are already looking forward to the next step together with our SGAVE teachers and experts from Germany.