New Forms of Learning and Teaching and Organisational Change – a Case Study at the Building Industry

This paper discusses comprehensive experiences of an ongoing and complex innovation process, driven by new requirements as a result of digitisation at the construction industry and by new examination regulations. Complex work and learning tasks (orientation on large building projects) were taken from the foremen’s occupational reality as a source to (re-)organise the various fields of instruction, enhancing the foreman with the necessary technical and social work-process knowledge. The project DigiProb introduced digital tools and media and project-based forms of learning and teaching in the area of further vocational education and training at a training provider in the construction sector belonging to the German building industry. Starting with the change of work and technology in several building occupations we discuss the challenges this development poses for the foremen. The second part of the results section focuses on the training of the foremen at the side of the building education provider including measures to improve curricula and the digital learning environment.