Company History

Vectes Europe was established in 1996 and it derives from the Videotec NV company, a company that focused on professional video recording and multimedia applications for the business world. Videotec worked closely together with, for example, Philips NV where people used the Leittexte method. Videotec recorded these training courses on video discs and created the control programs on a PC.

From Videotec, Rik Vanden Berk participated in the Leittexte user group, which comprised the people responsible for training courses from 15 leading companies. This group met three times a year at one of its members and discussed the advantages and disadvantages of the Leittexte method. Videotec gained knowledge in this way about the many issues related to ICT-assisted work-based learning.

Vectes Europe had an electronic learning platform designed in 1999 at the Expertise Centre for Digital Media (Hasselt university, B) to provide a solution to the intensive and time-consuming creation of training material linked to the Leittext method, that is, MUMETT. This ICT medium allows companies to create training packages themselves in a user friendly and flexible manner. Driven by the knowledge gained at Philips related to work-based learning, Vectes Europe developed two additional tools to ensure ICT-assisted work-based learning could be implemented as optimally as possible : The Vectes model (to develop a structured, education-focused task analysis) and the Orbit8 method (to also train skills through MUMETT from a theory perspective to a practical environment).