Author(s)

Käthe Schneider^*, Rebekka Langen

Institute of Education and Culture, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany.

As digitalization of work continues to progress, workers have to face new skill requirements corresponding to the 21st century. This creates a need for adaptation of adult training. The present review deals with the question of what is known about future adult training in the scientific literature. A sample of 16 articles identified from 2.461 screened abstracts was analyzed using a combination of quantitative frequency analysis and qualitative content analysis. The results show that future adult trainings should focus on promoting psychomotor, cognitive and interpersonal skills, as well as theoretical and non-cognitive skills in workers. To achieve a certain skill level, instruction in combination with mostly technically supported activating methods such as simulations, games or role plays are in demand. Skills that are more resilient to automation such as intrapersonal, meta- and existential skills are rarely or not at all found in the literature and should be more researched in the future.

Training, Future Skills, Learning Technologies, Foresight Research, Digitalization

Schneider, K. and Langen, R. (2021) What Is the Future of Adult Training?—A Systematic Literature Review. Psychology, 12, 236-254. doi: 10.4236/psych.2021.122015.