Abstract
Manufacturing industry can improve its competitiveness through innovation and technological excellence, and appropriate Industrial Learning can help to achieve this goal through allowing the manufacturing workforce to acquire new skills related to the advanced developments in information and communication technologies. This raises the need for new Industrial Learning tools and methods from the viewpoint of learning content, learning processes, and delivery mechanisms. In this paper, we present a generic competence-based approach for Industrial Learning developed in the framework of ActionPlanT project. The approach is composed of (i) an Industrial Learning model which serves to represent and understand competence-based learning, and (ii) a methodology which implements through a number of steps the Industrial Learning actions defined using the Industrial Learning model in industrial organisations. Both the model and the methodology are presented in details. A metrics-based method for evaluating the implementation of the learning actions defined using the approach is also described.
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° 258617.
The work in the ActionPlanT project is a common effort among all its contributing partners: Agoria, EPFL, Fraunhofer IPK, Intercim, POLIMI, SAP, Tecnalia, University of Patras.
We would like also to thank the experts that participated in the validation workshop which took place in Athens in May 2012 for their contribution to the validation or suggestion of the recommendations.
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Kiritsis, D., Bufardi, A., Mavrikios, D. et al. A competence-based industrial learning approach for factories of the future. Educ Inf Technol 18, 331–350 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-012-9247-3
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