06/2021 Proceedings

Teichmann, Malte | Ulrich, André | Kotarski, David | Gronau, Norbert

Facing the demographic change – Recommendations for designing learning factories as age-appropriate teaching-learning environments for older blue-collar workers

Abstract

Digitization and demographic change are enormous challenges for companies. Learning factories as innovative learning places can help prepare older employees for the digital change but must be designed and configured based on their specific learning requirements. To date, however, there are no particular recommendations to ensure effective age-appropriate training of bluecollar workers in learning factories. Therefore, based on a literature review, design characteristics and attributes of learning factories and learning requirements of older employees are presented. Furthermore, didactical recommendations for realizing age-appropriate learning designs in learning factories and a conceptualized scenario are outlined by synthesizing the findings.

Category Proceedings
Authors Teichmann, Malte; Ulrich, André; Kotarski, David; Gronau, Norbert
Place of publication SSRN
Book title 11th Conference on Learning Factories, CLF2021
Date 06/2021
Conference Title Conference on Learning Factories (CLF)
Keywords Learning factory, Vocational training, Learning environment, Age-appropriate cometence development, Demographic change