Enabling Digital Craftsmanship Capacity Building: A Digital Dalton Plan Approach

Abstract

Digitalization initiatives, in particular people-centered production, requires work force with novel skills in terms of context-sensitive ICT-education, termed digital craftsmanship. It ranges from articulating ideas to modeling and implementation in terms of producing goods and services along a specified process. We propose an inquiry-based methodology for educating learners and work force with different backgrounds in digital (process) design and production. The (digital) Dalton Plan support environment presented in this paper empowers learners through promoting self-regulated and targeted capacity building. It qualifies in coupling articulation work, learning support, and additive production of goods or services featuring ideation, problem- and project orientation.