PROJECT

Project Purposes PURPOSES

The best way to learn something is to do it and try it. In vocational education, students should conduct experiments and applications themselves. Before starting these applications, watching visual training videos on the subject increases students’ interest. We have noticed that the educational videos we need in the field of welding have not yet been prepared. This has deeply disappointed us. As a group of teachers, we strongly believe that starting welding education with visual and auditory training videos would be much more beneficial for students. We have prepared this project to overcome these challenges, provide a more efficient learning environment in welding lessons, and ensure that learning becomes more permanent. At the beginning of our project, we examined the welding curricula of different countries. We found that these curricula are outdated. In many countries, vocational schools do not teach the types of welding currently used in the industry. Additionally, we observed that welding textbooks used in schools lack practical applications and contain too much theoretical information. The Welding Guidebook we will prepare will be practice-oriented. Our students will learn welding faster by applying it themselves. To support this hands-on learning approach, we will develop a practical guidebook focused on applications. All of our project partners are Vocational Education and Training (VET) high schools. Therefore, to help vocational high school students learn welding more effectively and easily, we will create Welding Training Videos. Today’s Generation Z students find subjects and applications more engaging and easier to understand when presented visually. Our project will address this need. Teachers and students in vocational high schools require more visual training videos and a practical guidebook for welding lessons. Through our project: • Vocational school students will learn welding more easily. • Teachers will teach welding lessons more effectively. • Four different Vocational Education and Training (VET) schools from four different countries will collaborate through project-based activities to create shared outcomes and products. These partner schools will also strengthen their cooperation in the future. With this project, our students will gain a better understanding of welding, making it easier for them to find employment in the metal, machinery, steel construction, and related industries after graduation.