Higher vocational education plays a central role in equipping people with skills that are in demand in the labour market, and the MovingSkills project fills a timely and significant gap in knowledge by generating new insights into the increasing use of distance education. This expansion of higher vocational education is creating unprecedented opportunities for enhancing skills regardless of place. In this project, we will generate new empirical knowledge of how distance education is organized, provided and experienced, which will be employed to deepen theoretical understanding on how the increasing availability of higher vocational education facilitates skills enhancement.
The project aims to:
• Unpack student experiences of the availability, format and quality of contemporary distance education.
• Examine how higher vocational education institutions provide distance education.
• Understand employer and industry perspectives on the value of skills enhancement via distance education.
• Analyse how different forms of mobilities and immobilities enable distance education.
MovingSkills will identify how distance education imposes new spatialities and (im)mobilities in education and thereby transforms how, where and when skills enhancement occur.
