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Artificial Intelligence in Vocational Education and Training – New volume published in the ‘Kompetenzwerkstatt’ handbook series
The handbook *Artificial Intelligence in Vocational Education and Training* demonstrates how artificial intelligence is transforming specialist vocational work and what consequences this has for apprenticeships and vocational teaching. It follows the ‘competence workshop’ approach and adopts a work-process-oriented and competence-building perspective. The starting point is not AI technology as such, but its application in vocational contexts and work processes.
Handbook on AI in Vocational Education and Training
AI is examined in three roles: as a subject of work in vocational practice, as a subject of learning in training and teaching, and as a didactically grounded learning tool. The handbook therefore not only illustrates how AI is changing vocational tasks, decision-making processes and responsibilities. It also examines the new demands this places on vocational competence and how vocational training and teaching can respond to them.
Part A introduces fundamental concepts, capabilities, sources of error and risks associated with AI systems. Part B examines changes in industrial and technical work and demonstrates how AI-supported work processes can be systematically described. Part C derives pedagogical implications from this and illustrates how AI can be integrated into learning and work tasks as well as learning situations. Part D illustrates these approaches using four example task prompts and also provides a glossary as well as references to literature, learning platforms and AI tools.
The handbook is aimed in particular at training staff, vocational college teachers and students training to become vocational teachers. It supports them in incorporating AI into the design of vocational learning and work processes in a way that is technically sound, pedagogically reflective and responsible.