Education info mainly aims to empower students to make informed decisions regarding their transition from one education level to another, while also having in mind the career prospects of their choices.
Education info can be used either independently by the students or with the assistance of an educational guidance practitioner.
Practitioners use the website during their guidance sessions and working hours at schools or through career guidance counselling outside the school environment.
INNOVATIVE ASPECTS OF LMI
LMI provided involves information about what students should consider when making a transition between educational levels or a transition to working life:
- Learning Opportunities provided by the educational agencies of the country, such as information on the entire school system, the different educational levels in Sweden, statistics that enable comparisons between schools, etc.
- Labour Market information, provided by the Swedish Public Employment Service, such as information about different professions and their linkages with Higher Education and with pre-university national programs; occupational profiles linked to the national vocational programs; labour market forecasts.
LMI is presented through different delivery means such as videos, graphs, pictures, voice reading.
INNOVATIVE USE OF ICT
- Combination with offline elements
- Connection with third parties (LMI, PES, etc.)
- Customized RSS feed
- Dynamic interconnection of electronic resources according to a life course approach
- e-portfolio
- Interactive online tools
- Mobile app
- Online counselling
- Online wiki
- Open source
- Personalised information storage
- Quick diagnosis tool
- Social media utilisation
- Data from different sources is collected in a standardized manner based on the EMIL national standard.
- Susa Hub is the central hub/database in the EMIL ecosystem that collects information about education opportunities and education providers from multiple sources. The various partners provide their data in an .xml format. These xml. files along with data that is collected internally is entered in the Susa Hub. EducationInfo.se gets these files from Susa Hub via http, processes it and stores it in a SOLR database. Data is being updated daily, while compulsory and upper secondary information is drawn from an in-house database.
- The website also fetches information on the labour market (forecasts and occupational descriptions) from an internal system using an Oracle Service Bus.
- Another important technical element of the practice is the open data policy that is being followed for data and information included.
Results and impacts obtained
In numbers, during October 2015 to October 2016, the page attracted almost 1 450 000 visitors.
Concerning qualitative results, the website presents a full spectrum of educational opportunities, which greatly supports students and can result to a better matching between education skills needed by the labour market. The platform actively supports the work of guidance practitioners. The operation of the website as a single access point of LMI on educational opportunities for students has positive implications to the entire national LLG system.
Evaluation process:
- evaluation by users and practitioners, via dedicated e-mail address,
- education guidance providers are contacted by the agency either through e-mail or at a larger scale by posting a request on the Facebook account of Swedish guidance practitioners.
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