Completed project · 2014–2017
Occupational professionalism in manufacturing
Problem statement: In view of advancing digitalisation and changing worlds of work, continuing in-company training faces new challenges in realising learning integrated into work processes. Objectives: The collaborative project aimed to develop media-supported learning formats linking work and learning.
Research question: How can working and learning be linked in a rather learning-averse or automated work environment and – by contrast – in a learning-conducive or individualised one? What role can digital learning formats play here?
Research approach: Through surveys, workplace observations and interviews with skilled workers, technicians, master craftspeople and engineers as well as works council representatives, competence requirements for skilled workers in technology- and knowledge-based production processes were identified, and work-process-integrated continuing training provision tailored to them was developed and tested.
Results: Development and testing of two learning formats: microlearning through media-supported work and learning tasks (Medi-ALP) in the automated manufacturing process, and agile learning using the example of project management in process engineering.