Conference paper 2023

Digitalization and sustainability in german continuing education

Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Proceedings - Series of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI)
Conference · Vol. P-337 · pp. 1947-1955
Abstract

Skills and qualifications are at the heart of designing digitalized and sustainable futures, as they link society and the labour market. While the design of digitalized futures raises several issues for society, society in turn, and in particular skills and qualifications, can be a bottleneck for maintaining productivity and the workforce. The labor market relies heavily on both vocational and academic education and training, retraining, and continuing professional development to meet these future challenges. Thus, at the individual level, the question arises as to what qualifications and skills are needed in a digitalized and sustainable future. In this paper we present a novel approach to analyze advertisements for continuing vocational education and training (CVET) in order to identify if skills and qualifications needed for digitalization and sustainability are currently considered, and if the so-called green economy is also important for CVETs. © 2023 Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI). All rights reserved.

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Author Keywords

Sustainability Digitalization text mining Computational Social Sciences CVET advertisements Labor market data

Index Keywords

Employment Sustainable development Vocational education Commerce Vocational education and training Labour market Digitalization continuing education Text-mining Financial markets Computational social science Continuing vocational education and training advertisement Labor market data Market data
Author Affiliations
Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), Bonn, Germany, Universität Koblenz, Koblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Technology Arts Sciences TH Köln, Koln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), Bonn, Germany
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  • EID 2-s2.0-85181101186
  • Language English