E-Learning

The digitalisation of the working world leads to the need and at the same time to the possibility of qualifying employees in a context-oriented, individual and process-oriented way. The challenge in this context is the target-oriented and coordinated use of different learning forms and systems. The present contribution provides an approach for combining content-related and structural gamification in e-learning and the increase of motivation for e-learning as well as knowledge consolidation through mobile learning by means of a game application tailored to the sector of application. To this end, the need to adapt education to digital change is described at the beginning, the pillars of the envisaged concept (gamification, e-learning and mobile learning) are classified, an implementation of the application case of the maintenance of wind turbines is delivered and, finally, the results of the evaluation as well as the added value of this contribution are discussed.

Economy, enterprises and employees are sustainably affected by digital transformation. The new opportunities of education and training to evaluate learner behavior digitally are of particular interest. Learning analytics can be used for specific optimization of learning forms and content for the benefit of learners and of the training company.

Lifelong learning is an elementary part of the knowledge society and of high importance for industries and societies facing digitization (Industry 4.0). This comprises individual opportunities for the employees as well as competitive advantages for companies. Two concrete solutions for textile and clothing industry will be presented here: on the one hand a sector wide offer for vocational training and on the other hand an adaptable IT based learning method enabling learning in the workplace. Both solutions show cutting edge concepts, technologies and didactic.

The internet-based teaching, learning and communication system “Business Administration Knowledge Laboratory” (WiLabBW) is developed and continuously expanded within a cooperation project of Thuringian universities. The paper gives a survey of the basic goals and explains its architecture and business model.

Management literature reports on the trend for large companies to adopt the principles of the “learning organisation” or “lifelong learning”. They found “corporate universities” for educating their own staff, which are commonly based on computer-based or web-based educational services. The virtual institute VIMIMS offers an approach that is de-signed to offer small and medium enterprises access to up-to-date knowledge on production management without their having to invest substantial sums in internal further education programmes.

The adoption of knowledge within an enterprise to its strategic aims is a requisite for realising these aims. But the necessary knowledge for it can’t be provided in a large amount from outside of an enterprise. So, the knowledge within an enterprise has to be enhanced by certain means of on-the-job training. This article shows some opportunities for e-learning in education and their relevance for on-the-job training. It is based on the experiences in using elearning in courses at the Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Production Management.