The joint project MeinBerufBau focuses in the sense of a narrow understanding of inclusion apprentices with a learning disability, who want to complete a dual education in a training occupation of the construction industry. The aim is to develop digital learning settingsthat provide novel forms for learning together with and without learning disabilities. The focus is on the design of barrier-free learning and education processes in order to support apprentices in the learning and long-term pursuit of a professional activity.

The teaching and research field Fachdidaktik Bautechnik develops and tests this together with the Berufsförderungswerk der Bauindustrie NRW gGmbH in the training center Kerpen and the teaching and research area Informatics 9: Learning Technologies of the RWTH Aachen University inclusion-oriented learning settings, based on substantive or subject-specific learning barriers potential-oriented tie in the individual learning prerequisites of the trainees and systematically make reference to real work-related requirements. In this context, the development of a toolbox with learning applications for the collaborative development of subject content of training is planned. In addition, didactic-methodical and technical instructions for trainers are designed to support the integration of learning applications into the vocational teaching-learning processes. In the phases of the testing, the teaching and research fields Subject Didactics Structural Engineering and Computer Science 9: Learning Technologies take over the scientific monitoring and evaluate the application of the learning applications from a didactic-methodological or technical perspective.

In the MeinBerufBau project, the focus is on basic vocational training (1st year of training) at the Kerpen Training Center, where the developed learning applications are to be anchored in the sense of sustainable implementation as a constitutive element of training. A transfer to other inter-company vocational training centers is aimed for in the long term and made possible by the provision of the Toolbox as Open Educational Resources.

The vocational training in the training center covers seven trades, in which the toolbox with its learning applications is developed, tested and evaluated in close cooperation with trainers and trainees. The focus here is on a needs-based and user-friendly toolbox that orientates itself on the lively everyday life of apprentices, helping trainees to understand technical contents more easily and to implement them better.

The Kerpen Training Center supports RWTH Aachen University by assisting with evaluations of everyday education , teaching trainers and apprentices in workshops, and organizing and holding information events for the partner companies in the construction industry.

Contact: Mr. Dipl.-Ing. Ulrich Goos, Dr. med. Askim Bozkurt