The document summarizes a conference titled "Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom" held on November 9-10, 2017 in Kaunas, Lithuania. Over the two-day event, several speakers discussed topics related to professional development in the digital age, including the role of continuing vocational training, using open education resources, developing intercultural competences, business enterprises' competence needs, preparing vocational education for industrial digitalization, and implementing ECVET in vocational training systems. The conference aimed to discuss implications of digitalization on vocational skills demand and responses from vocational education and training systems.

1. Open Professional Collaboration
for Open Classroom
November 9-10, 2017
Kaunas, Lithuania
#OCCKaunas17

2. Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom
November 9-10, 2017
Kaunas, Lithuania
Organisers
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• This session tries to discuss the implications of industrial and
business digitalization for the demand of vocational skills,
responses of the VET systems to these changes and potential of the
open education resources to respond to these challenges.
• Dgitalization of work processes create a wide range of challenges
for vocational education and training and professional
development.
• The section covered a wide range of topics related to professional
development in the digital age.

3. Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom
November 9-10, 2017
Kaunas, Lithuania
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#OCCKaunas17
• Lisa Marie Blashke from the Oldenburg University discussed the role of
continuing vocational training for the satisfaction of the needs of
employers.
- The needs of labour market „quickly on Board“
Support learning solutions:
- Prior learning assesment and recognition
- Projeckt based learning
- E-portfolio

4. Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom
November 9-10, 2017
Kaunas, Lithuania
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• Ebba Ossiannilsson from the Swedish Association of Distant Learning is
focused on the usage of open education resources for professional
development.
- Quality of OER
- Language and cultural issues
- Proffesional development
- Change in minds

5. Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom
November 9-10, 2017
Kaunas, Lithuania
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• Denes Zarka from the Budapest University of technology and economics
presented the Erasmus+ project VOCAL and the developed digital training
material for teachers and trainers for development of intercultural
competences.
- Digitalization of learning sources
- Designing of learning activities
- Tutoring international

6. Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom
November 9-10, 2017
Kaunas, Lithuania
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• Aušra Giedrienė from the Kaunas Chamber of Commerce, Industry and
Crafts will present the competence needs of business enterprises of
Kaunas region. There is noticed very significant demand of skilled
workforce in the region and the digitalization is expected to increase
this demand.
- Short learning programs
- Formalization of non-formal and informal learning
- The vocational education programs V level

7. Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom
November 9-10, 2017
Kaunas, Lithuania
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• Vytautas Petkūnas from the Visaginas vocational training centre
discussed the preparedness of vocational education and training for
the industrial digitalization.
- Motivation of the Teacher
- Level and quality of education
- Continuity of education from Progymnazium to Higer
education

8. Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom
November 9-10, 2017
Kaunas, Lithuania
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• Paulius Čepas, ECVET expert and director of the Kaunas vocational
training centre for mechanics discussed the challenges and possibilities
of the implementation of ECVET in the vocational education and
training system of Lithuania.
- Formalization of non-formal and informal learning
- Programs based on learning outcomes
- Quality of the process

9. Thank you
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