Project management sub-project of htw saar: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Köhler, MBA
Project staff: Tobias Mahl, M.Sc.

Project duration: 01.05.2021 - 30.04.2024

Link to the website of the overall project

Funding information:

The joint research project "TRIPLEADAPT: Adaptive, interoperable continuing education platforms through a digital drilling", funding reference 21INVI1305, is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the BMBF innovation competition "INVITE - Digital Platform for Continuing Vocational Education and Training" and supervised by the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training.

What is this project about?

The project focuses on enriching three currently self-contained learning platforms with educational innovations such as a digital drilling, a connecting common learning middleware, a recommender system, a digital certification service and the interoperable design and further development of cross-platform, individual or target group-specific learning paths. The interoperational platform innovations and AI solutions developed will be developed platform-independently within the project and made available to the consortium and interested parties.

The TRIPLEADAPT project addresses the three INVITE development fields:

• Networking of further education platforms
• Development and testing of platform-related innovations
• Development and testing of AI-supported teaching and learning opportunities

In addition, the aim is to link them across development fields in a socio-technical system.

The project will define use cases for the respective development fields and analyze the subsequent requirements for modern, digitally supported vocational training:

• Heterogeneously distributed learning opportunities must be quickly and easily accessible.
• System boundaries (different continuing education platforms) must not be an obstacle for learners.
• The networking potential of continuing education platforms must be tapped.
• The learning offer must be individually adapted to the learner's learning needs, prior knowledge and skills, as well as to context-specific and personal preferences.
• The level of difficulty and help information must be continuously adapted during the learning process.
• The inner motivation to learn (intrinsic motivation) must be encouraged in order to retain the acquired knowledge and skills for a long time (sustainability of the learning process).

What is the main focus of the wi insitut project team?

Furthermore, innovative business models are to be developed for the various use cases to enable the results of the project to be perpetuated. The corresponding work package on business model development is being led by the wi institute team at htw saar. As part of this work package, the initial situations of the use case providers and learning platforms will be analyzed as well as current trends and figures in the continuing vocational training sector. Together with the partners, innovative concepts for business models are developed and their feasibility and effects on the existing business models and the organization of the partners are examined in order to identify emerging patterns with the aim that the approach and the business model types can also be transferred to other use cases.