Innovation and the Future of TVET

Supporting TVET staff for a digitalized world

Digital skills & competencies

Find out what is in demand

Institutional readiness

Assess your institutional readiness for innovation

Distance learning

Learn about challenges, trends and tools

Teachers & trainers

Review the latest trends in TVET teaching

What digital skills and competencies does TVET staff need?

Digitalization is reshaping millions of jobs. To remain relevant to the changing world of work and attractive to learners, there is a growing need for TVET teachers and trainers to understand the application of digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence, robotics, 3D-technologies and augmented and virtual reality, and to have up-to-date digital competencies.

The Bridging Innovation and Learning in TVET Project (BILT) provides an opportunity to learn about digitalization-related challenges and share innovative initiatives implemented by TVET institutions to address these challenges.

How can TVET institutions assess their readiness for digitalization?

Agile and innovative TVET institutions are well placed to cope with the increasing dynamics of technological developments. Regardless of the starting point in their digitalization journey, it is useful for TVET institutions to assess their current status and develop an action plan to reach the next level.

The UNESCO-UNEVOC Innovation Framework provides an innovation toolbox for institutional self-assessment. Using selected indicators, it helps institutions assess their leadership and organizational practices, their teaching and learning processes, their products and services, and their skills and innovation ecosystem. Using the results, institutions can develop an Innovation Action Plan that guides their further institutional development.

Innovating technical and vocational education and training

A framework for institutions
Global developments including the transition to greener economies, the application of digital technologies in the world of work, and the COVID-19 pandemic, amongst others, are changing the way we live and work. These developments are driving technica ...

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How does digitalization affect teaching and learning?

As in all fields of education, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a shift towards distance learning in TVET. This poses a particular challenge due to the hands-on nature of TVET and the major adjustments needed to deliver practical training components via distance learning.

To guide TVET institutions, teachers and learners in identifying suitable tools for distance learning, UNESCO and the EdTech Hub have developed a growing database of resources.

This list of distance learning solutions, compiled as part of UNESCO’s COVID-19 Education Response, also provides useful information on distance learning tools.

What support do TVET teachers and trainers need to champion digitalization?

Despite all technological advances, teachers and trainers are at the heart of modern and successful TVET. Our recent trends mapping study on the Future of TVET teaching shows the particular need for in-service teacher training.

Trends mapping - Future of TVET teaching

The following report presents the results of the trends mapping study on the future of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) teaching, conducted by UNESCO-UNEVOC. The study aimed to engage the international TVET community to: (i) imp ...

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COVID-19 response project

Is your institution ready for the ‘new normal’?

As part of its COVID-19 response project — Strengthening the Responsiveness, Agility and Resilience of TVET Institutions for the Post-COVID-19 Era — UNESCO-UNEVOC will support five UNEVOC Centres in building the capacity of managers and teachers to deliver digital services. In addition, a three-part webinar series will examine the key challenges of digitalization in TVET.

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Bridging Innovation and Learning in TVET

Europe – Africa – Asia

The Bridging Innovation and Learning in TVET (BILT) project aims to support TVET institutions in addressing challenges that arise due to current global trends. These include the digitalization of the workplace and the training cycle, the transition to green and sustainable economies, a growing focus on the benefits of entrepreneurial learning, and the increase in migration that requires close engagement from TVET stakeholders to provide relevant training solutions.

BILT provides a platform to explore and identify new qualifications and competencies that are needed for modern, competitive TVET systems and attractive career paths.

Qualifications

Digitalization

Entrepreneurship

Greening

Migration