This User Experience Compendium was created in the project Learn2Create to tell stories about the process of using work-based learning and methodology developed under the project in the context of advising young people to develop their artistic and creative pathways in sustainable way. It consists of online materials based upon participants’ experiences of using Learn2Create results and their reflections on the testing of specific learning methodologies and tools. UX Compendium reflects the voices of learners – teachers, trainers, mentors and entrepreneurs – employers in cultural and creative industries providing illustrations and examples of how the process of work-based learning takes place and promoting of such a way of learning. We hope it will familiarise you with the learning methodologies developed by our project consortium and will inspire you to use these tools. The User Experience Compendium is designed for all sectors of the target audience of the Learn2Create project including VET teachers, trainers, mentors, professionals advising and supporting young people in the cultural and creative sectors, careers advisers, entrepreneurs, employers and the other stakeholders working in different sub-sectors of the CCIs, creative artists working in VET. There are 3 main sections in our Learn2Create UX Compendium:

Short overview to all 6 modules of blended Learning Programme
Voices of practitioners – facilitators in VET
Voices of practitioners – employers in the CCI

We hope you will find some inspirations for your work here!

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Short overview to all 6 modules of Blended Learning Programme

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Voices of practitioners – facilitators in VET

Michele De Vito – Promoting Work-based Learning in Europe’s Cultural and Creative Industries CCIs

Work-based Learning is the perfect tool to improve learning, training and teaching sessions. It offers a chance for people to get the competences and confidence they need to face the professional sector or and their personal lives. On the L2C platform we presented the...

Marianella Parra shares her experience with work-based learning in Creative and Cultural Industries

What are your personal experiences with WBL? I studied Education in Universidad Metropolitana in Venezuela and my whole career was WBL. From the first semester you were placed (sometimes you could choose) in a school as a teacher's assistant. It was wonderful because...

Gerson Sopó shares his experience with work-based learning in Creative and Cultural Industries

What are your personal experiences with WBL? When I was still a student, I started to work at the Central Bank of Ecuador. It was a really nice learning experience in subjects such as data analysis. It helped me to improve my communication skills. Nowadays, as a...

How Work-Based Learning in the Creative Industries facilitates the development of professional identity

Creative endeavours have started seeing a concept influx in the 21st-century. What is known as the creative sector is changing and morphing into new concepts of creativity as swiftly as technology modifies the industry just like any other part of everyday life. And...

Wenancjusz Ochmann – experiences in using results of Learn2Create project.

Wenancjusz Ochmann is sharing his experiences in using results of Learn2Create project. This video was made for the UX Compendium created in the project “Learn2 Create – promoting Work-based Learning in Europe's Cultural and Creative Industries”.Wenancjusz Ochmann is...

Work-based learning in Cultural and Creative Industries; Our pilot experience

Practitioners in the Cultural and Creative Industry know for a fact that work-based learning constitutes a big part of their informal learning, which allows them to grow and flourish as professionals. It is for this reason that our recruitment for pilot participants...

How to improve teaching methods with WBL? – about the Learn2Create platform

As a beginning pedagogue, I look for various ways of improving teaching methods, educating young people, and preparing them for their professional lives. The so-called work-based learning is a huge opportunity for that. Even though it is not something that young...

An equilateral triangle to enter the world of work

A trilateral relationship that established between "Company - Intern - Training Institution", which express the need to work with balance on the tips of an equilateral triangle, where everyone has to play their part. There are different ways to enter the professional...

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Voices of practitioners – employers/users in the CCI

Paolo Montemurro – Through the entrepreneurship’s eyes

Paolo Montemurro is Director of Materahub and Project Manager of several EU funded projects. Since 2010, he has worked on capacity building actions for the creative and cultural sector and supported young entrepreneurs and start-ups in the cultural and social sector....

Ornella Evangelista – An intern’s perspective

Ornella Evangelista is a Social Policy Planner, graduated at the University of Perugia with a master in “Planning and access to European funds for culture, creativity and multimedia of the” at the University of Perugia - Department of Political Science, which involved...

Matej Sajgal – some comments about the course and the platform

Matej Sajgal is senior web developer based in Bratislava, Slovakia. He's working as a team lead for an international company and mentoring young developers. He's been working as a freelancer in a professional environment since 2010 in Bratislava and Sydney (Australia)...

Samuel Abraham – the usability of the L2C learning online course aimed on the WBL in practice

“Although I am a student of European studies at a university in Bratislava now, I experienced 10 years of piano classes at a school of arts in my hometown. The school of arts provides art education for all age groups in the field of music and fine arts. During my...

David Garcia – mentor’s perspective

David Garcia - Learning & technology consultant at Rinova in London. He also runs his own interactive audio production company in Malaga. In this podcast, David shares his experience in mentoring in the videogames sector and talks about the most useful...

The usability of the L2C learning online course aimed on the WBL in practice

I often have an opportunity to start a new work team in the production process. In many cases they are students, graduates or young people without any internship and experiences. I think that learning by doing is the most effective way how to learn something new...

Elvira Rilova shares her experience with work-based learning in Creative and Cultural Industries

Tell us about your personal experience with WBL. In the 90s, when I took a degree in Art History, internships were not very common. Later on, when I got my master's degree, I did have the opportunity to collaborate with the Reina Sofía Museum of Contemporary Art, in...

My experience with the Learn2Create pilot training

My name is Georgia and I studied Architecture. I participated in this training because I hoped that I could benefit from the knowledge about work based learning in the cultural and creative industry in general, and Architecture in particular. To me, work based...