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42/ 2005
Bonn, 10.11.2005
MERKUR points the way to training media!
- BIBB develops new media information system -
Every year, skilled workers who are responsible for providing training are faced with a problem. They are expected to train young people in newly developed and modernised regulated occupations - numbering 123 in total since 2000 - without already being in a position to fall back on basic practical experience when implementing the requirements stipulated in the new training regulations. Their task is to familiarise the trainees with the new specialist knowledge, whilst at the same time imparting such modern concepts of vocational education and training as professional action, order and process oriented approaches. The Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) is currently developing and piloting the MERKUR Media Information System, which is designed to provide skilled workers responsible for providing training with support in the form of available media, such as documentation relating to training and their own further development, enabling them to cope better with the task facing them. MERKUR should be viewed as an Internet guide (www.af-medieninfo.de) to these training media. Classified according to occupations, it presents such media as specialist books, worksheets, sample exercises and examination questions, audio CDs and DVDs, videos and educational and specialised continuing training material for skilled workers providing training, provides descriptions from a training practice angle and offers hints on how such materials may be obtained.
The MERKUR database currently contains, as an example, information relating to around 200 training media for the regulated occupation of "skilled mechatronics worker". These range from worksheets to project work media, edited and presented attractively with sample pages, examples from programmes of learning or short video sequences. The presentation of these media serves as an example to demonstrate how the database is geared towards the requirements of training practice. It offers six search parameters for media research, oriented towards the following important issues for skilled workers responsible for providing training:
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- Which media are available for the - occupation?
- In which form are the media provided and how, where and when can they be best deployed?-type of medium, technical requirements
- Where can they be obtained? - origin
- Which media deal with specific - occupational profiles in the training regulations?
- Which electronically supported media are available in specific topic areas?
- specialist terminology - Which media are of assistance in preparation for examinations? - didactic aim.
The plan is to allocate all other recognised training occupations "their" media in the same way as for the occupation of skilled mechatronics worker and to make these available for research in the MERKUR database.
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In order to be able to develop MERKUR into a comprehensive media information system, BIBB therefore requests
all producers and users of training media to support the development of MERKUR, to specify their training media,
to give us the benefit of their experience and to submit their recommendations -using practice to help practice!
Contact: BIBB, Anke Bahl, e-mail: bahl@bibb.de
MERKUR is being established within the scope of BIBB's "trainer support", known as "AF". AF provides concepts and continuing training materials for the vocational educational practice of training personnel, especially for in-company, external and inter-company training. (Further German language information about AF provision is available online under www.ausbilderfoerderung.de).
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- Research in MERKUR:
www.af-medieninfo.de - Complete MERKUR:
information to BIBB, Anke Bahl bahl@bibb.de - Find out more about AF provision:
www.ausbilderfoerderung de
- Research in MERKUR:
