USING CASUAL GAMES AND ONTOLOGIES TO TRAIN UNSKILLED WORKERS: An Experience with the FoodWeb2.0 Platform

摘要

Training and continuing education in and for the food industry face the challenge of reaching and motivating workers without or with only a low level of formal qualification. In the FoodWeb2.0 project a platform with specific support for training opportunities and selected Web2.0 enabled courses has been established. This paper reports on first results of a Web2.0 course conducted on the platform and elaborates on the usage of a casual game for training knowledge on food safety and hazardous material regulations. Since the tentative results show that the students are motivated to influence the content of a course by commenting provided material, we designed the casual game in such a way that it can be used in two modes: as a learning game and as an interactive mechanism for ontology enrichment. Our evaluation at a private professional training academy has shown promising results.