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Changing paradigm of education: integration of new media and integration of competence-based learning (CPE) - Teaching with tablet-PCs pan-EuropeanFreedom of movement, European job market, personal responsibility and media competence – these were only a few challenges for apprentices and vocational education. School as an institution needed to react. Therefore the conception of school and ways of teaching had to be altered: more competence-focused, more self-organized, more student-dependent and more media-based lessons and the use of ECVET. The partnership focused the following questions: (a) Which European-competences should be the focus to prepare the students for the European job-market?(b) In which ways could school as an institution facilitate “digital competences” of the “digital natives”, for them to become responsible users of new technologies in their lifelong learning process?(c) In which ways could school teach cross-border, competence-based and possibly bilingually?The four project schools brought their experiences together with the aim of cross-border European instructional development: (1) self-organized and practise-oriented learning (Landesberufsschule Hartberg, Austria), (2) the use of tablet-PCs and smartphones in practise-oriented learning environments (Max-Weber-Berufskolleg, Germany), (3) experiences with the use of ECVET (Oulu vocational college, Finland), (4) cross-cultural learning in projects (Landesberufsschule Savoy, Italy). Complementary to this the market research company ACADEMIC DATA (Germany) developed, coordinated, conducted, evaluated and published the results of two studies (observation of lessons, online-study of companies about the facilitation of competences).The learning arrangements had to comply with the following criteria: practise-oriented, competence-based, self-organized and help the students work independently; the lessons needed to facilitate the capacity to act and the media-competence; the learning outcome was verified using ECVET. The learning arrangements was tried out, evaluated and possibly optimised for further use.It was our aim to get the critical focus on pan-European facilitation of professional competence and digital competence as well as the long-term development and use of tablet-based learning arrangements.
