The scope of this module is to foster the digital skills of the in-company tutors so that they can make use of those for improving the training of the apprentices at the work place and beyond. As the current Corona-Crisis shows, the ability to use internet and other digital media in order to facilitate distance learning activities is becoming a crucial and distinctive competence for trainers and tutors.

The intention of this module is to provide the in-company tutors with the necessary knowledge, skills and competences which enable them to digitaly corespond and support their apprentices in their learning processes. Digital skills of mentors are different, some have basic digital knowledge, some are addvanced and other don’t have any digital knowledge. The modul has to be designed to offer basic knowledge of digital competences, equivalent to all mentors, regarding their pre-knowledgeThe module should be designed for direct application in practice and should serve as an effective framework to help mentors connect and involve students / apprentices in the learning process. The module will provide appropriate and quality content that will comprehensively equip individuals with the skills necessary for everyday life and thus actively include them in the modern information society.

Module 7 is intended to enable the participants to acquire a basic repertoire of research and at the same time practical methods that they can flexibly apply in their everyday professional life and impart to their apprentices.