Herausforderung Zukunft – Technischer Fortschritt und Globalisierung

Developing a Platform for using Game-Based Learning in Vocational Education and Training

“…Against the background of structural change and the changing demands of new generations, such as the "digital natives" or "Generation Y", there is a need (also in terms of learning content) to create new attractive learning instruments and innovative approaches that support the acquisition of competencies. In the field of Vocational Education and Training (VET), the demand for the provision of learning and educational content is also changing as rapidly as the technological progress of recent years [20]. As written in [21], it is now necessary to transfer the competences of the 21st century into a new learning culture and thus also into schools and universities to strengthen pupils' competences in the future.…”

Sustainable Development and Computing—An Introduction

“…Both entered a steep increase at around 1900, growing steeper and steeper, faster and faster. While the world population has tripled in about 100 years, we consumed around the year 2000 around 15 times the amount of energy compared to 1900 [8]. In particular the growthbased development of the recent decades was accomplished by various environmental threats such as pollution, acid rain, deforestation, the destruction of the ozone layer, climate change, etc.…”

“…Fig. 1 Sustainability matrix according to Jischa [8] The developments of COP 21 in December 2015 in Paris (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 21st Conference of the Parties, see…”