Introduction
Welcom e to the e-Guidebook “Management of e-Mentoring on Employment-related Issues” (further e-Guidebook), which have been developed under the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning project “e-MENTORING: New skills and competencies for new jobs” in cooper ation with nine organisations and institutions from Europe and the USA: Social Innovation Fund (Lithuania), Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania), Merseyside Expanding Horizons (United Kingdom), ANNANET: Pertti Vihonen Oy (Finland), Volkshochschule Göttingen e.V. (Germany), Speha Fresia Societa Cooperativa (Italy), European Partnership (Lithuania), Burgas Free University (Bulgaria) and VentureQuest Ltd. LLC (USA). The detailed description of the project, its aims and outcomes can be found on the project’s website (see http://e-mentoring.eu/?page=about).
Successful participation in the fast-changing labour market requires the alignment of employment-related skills and competencies. Thus, it is very important for the last year students at Universities and Vocational Education and Training (VET) institutions, as well for adult learners to prepare themselves to re-/enter the labour market and get employed or to start own business. During the last years mentoring provided by employers and/or employees in their roles as mentors is becoming more and more common phenomenon worldwide and has already proved itself as an effective learning process.
The project aims to increase the capacities of students in High Education (further HE) and Vocational Education and Training (further VET) institutions and adult learners re-/entering the labour market by collecting good practice experiences and transferring the best solutions into a common e-Mentoring Model.
The e-Mentoring process is enhanced by integrating Open Educational Resources (OERs) for self-directed learning. OERs are developed for 3M-Actors for self-directed learning on mentoring process and for mentees for self-directed learning on employability and entrepreneurship. ICT-enabled learning solutions are based on the following tools: Moodle, Wondershare, MySQL, PHP, CSS, HTML, JQuery, Javascript.
e-Learning environment for e-Mentoring Model consists of five main parts:
OERs: 3M-ACTORS – self-directed learning on e-Mentoring process.
OERs: Self-directed learning on Employability for Mentee.
OERs: Self-directed learning on Entrepreneurship for Mentee.
e-Mentoring learning platform – virtual learning for registered users.
Social Networks for Manager, Mentor and Mentee.
This e-Guidebook gives a clear explanation of all five parts of e-Mentoring Model.
