Effects of Digitalization on Vocational Education and Training: First Results of a Qualitative Study

Abstract

Digitalization confronts vocational education and training (VET) with both challenges and potentials. However, concrete effects of digitalization are missing in research. Especially the perspective of training and learning departments seems to be interesting because the employees in these areas are the central actors in imparting the necessary competencies and skills to the employees of enterprises. Therefore, the main goal of this paper is to elaborate effects of digitalization on VET from the above-mentioned perspective. To reach this goal, we conducted a qualitative study by interviewing 20 experts of enterprise training and identified two main effects on VET.