This report “ESSA Learning Programmes & Materials” presents the educational activities designed by the European Software Skills Alliance (ESSA) for skilling, up-skilling and re-skilling students and professionals into in-demand software roles, in order to achieve the ESSA learning objectives and complete a specific set of tasks. The ESSA Learning Programmes provided by Work Package (WP) 4 are based upon the ESSA Educational Profiles, a key outcome of previous WP3, which are included again into this document for overall comprehensiveness.
Four main software professional roles identified by the Alliance are covered: Developer, DevOps expert, Solution Designer, Test Specialist, and this at their applying qualification levels (EQF 4-7).
This document — and the eight related Annexes — was produced within the overall implementation of Work Package 4 “Learning Programmes, Testing & Rollout” under the European Software Skills Alliance (ESSA) project and specifically refers to task 4.1 “Design and develop ESSA Learning Programmes”. Main goal of this task was to practically implement the previously developed Curricula Guidelines (D.7) and related Educational Profiles into learning and teaching practice.
The contents and information are organised as follows:
- Chapter two presents in eight sub-chapters four Educational Profiles (Developer, DevOps expert, Solution Designer, Test Specialist) developed by the ESSA Alliance according to different EQF levels in previous WP3; they were identified in the first project phase to match market needs. Each sub-chapter provides in the final sub-section a brief overview of the ESSA Learning Programmes designed by the ESSA piloting partners per Educational Profile and EQF level, leaving consultation of the full Learning Programmes to the Annexes.
- Chapter three briefly describes the ESSA dedicated platform www.learn.softwareskills.eu. The platform contains the collection of learning materials developed by the Alliance for Europe-wide free access and use to support the delivery of the ESSA Learning Programmes designed for each Educational Profile and applying EQF level(s). This chapter also provides links to other relevant documents produced within the project that can be consulted as in-depth reading. The contents provided in each of the eight annexes are essential to the implementation of the ESSA Learning Programmes piloting action.
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