It is Optima’s responsibility to make sure that all the involved parties understand On-the-Job Learning and Skills Demonstration in the same way.

This information package that you are now reading, is intended for students, workplace instructors, and teachers. This package is not only information about On-the-Job Learning and Skills Demonstrations but, instead, it also constitutes Optima’s steering documents for these two activities. The information applies to the curriculum-based initial vocational qualifications, i.e. "youth education".

On-the-Job Learning (OJL) is focused and supervised learning by the student at a workplace. Skills demonstration is an ordinary, practical task at work which is marked out and assessed. According to the new qualification requirements, skills demonstrations shall primarily be carried out at the student’s OJL-workplace.

The texts are based on the new qualification requirements. This means that some terms and concepts have changed, e.g. “study module” instead of “study entity”.

Illustrations by Patricia Forsström.

Contact: Staffan Sunabacka, staffan.sunabacka@optimaedu.fi or +35844-7215279.