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Participatory Design for Worker Training in an Industrial Context

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Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering (CDVE 2022)

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Developing educational designs aimed at upskilling workers in an industrial context provides a unique and complex situation, due to the different perspectives and contexts represented by workers, managers, and educators.

The aim of this study is to better understand how a participatory approach potentially strengthens the development of educational designs aimed at upskilling in industry. This is done by first clarifying the theoretical foundation for applying a participatory approach, and secondly, by investigating six cases from practice in which a participatory approach (ICoED) has been applied.

The findings of this article show that applying a participatory approach seems to strengthen the development of educational designs aimed at an industrial context in terms of commitment, shared understanding, and a better alignment between the various perspectives in the solution.

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This work is part of the FIT4FoF project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement n. 820701.

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  1. University College of Northern Denmark, 9200, Aalborg, SV, Denmark

    Rene Bennyson & Esben Skov Laursen

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Bennyson, R., Laursen, E.S. (2022). Participatory Design for Worker Training in an Industrial Context. In: Luo, Y. (eds) Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering. CDVE 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13492. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16538-2_19

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