Individualizing Workplace Learning With Digital Technologies : New Learning Cultures in Swiss Apprenticeship Training

Summary

Digital technology integration or adoption has become crucial not only for communication, administration and management, but it is also a meaningful asset to support learning and teaching in VET. Modern learning cultures take approaches to successfully integrating technologies in their internal processes, and in this way support autonomy and flexibility in work and learning, lifelong learning as much as intergenerational learning. Based on three in-depth case studies in the Swiss enterprises Swisscom, Login and Post, results on the usage and impact of digital technologies in VET will be presented. Data were collected by means of semi- structured interviews with apprentices, workplace trainers, coaches and VET management.