Skill Development in the Wind Energy Sector A Serious Game Development Approach Siamak Tavakoli, Alireza Alghassi Brunel Innovation Centre (BIC) Brunel University London Uxbridge, United Kingdom siamak.tavakoli@brunel.ac.uk alireza.alghassi@brunel.ac.uk Sureshkumar Perinpanayagam, School of Engineering and Information Technology, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, Australia sureshkumar.perinpanayagam@cdu. edu.au Davide Astiaso Garcia Department of Astronautical, Electrical and Energy Engineering (DIAEE) Sapienza University of Rome Rome, Italy segretario.generale@anev.org Abstract— Nowadays, it is necessary to train professionals to address today's changing in the labor market and promote the competitive economy. As a result of using an interactive training tool, the sector´s competitiveness as well as the staff´s qualification would be improved through the promoting learning with Open Educational Resources (OER) and their access to the professional. Training the professionals will promote the competitive economy and will facilitate the mobility and professionalization of the personnel particularly in increasing sectors such as wind energy. The ICT tools are a valuable solution for the wind energy sector considering that wind farms are often located in remote areas and an ICT training tool would facilitate the staff´s qualification from every place. Providing information and advices about the operational (installation and maintenance) skills will improve notably the qualification of the staff involved in the wind sector, promoting an innovative training to consolidate the sustainability of this sector specially now when in addition of new installed power a revamping of the existing wind farms is needed in many European countries. In parallel the tool being developed within this work would learn from the experience and from the best practices. Enhancing digital integration in training will improve the demands of the current market. Keywords— Wind Energy, Serious Games, Mobile Application I. INTRODUCTION Nowadays, it is necessary to train professionals to address today's changing in the labor market and promote the competitive economy. As a result of using an interactive training tool, the sector´s competitiveness as well as the staff´s qualification would be improved through the promoting learning with Open Educational Resources (OER) and their access to the professional. Training the professionals will promote the competitive economy and will facilitate the mobility and professionalization of the personnel particularly in increasing sectors such as wind energy. The ICT tools are a valuable solution for the wind energy sector considering that wind farms are often located in remote areas and an ICT training tool would facilitate the staff´s qualification from every place [1, 2]. Providing information and advices about the operational (installation and maintenance) skills will improve notably the qualification of the staff involved in the wind sector, promoting an innovative training to consolidate the sustainability of this sector specially now when in addition of new installed power a revamping of the existing wind farms is needed in many European countries. In parallel the tool being developed within this work would learn from the experience and from the best practices. Enhancing digital integration in training will improve the demands of the current market [3]. II. CURRENT STATUS AND AIM OF THE PAPER The needs identified in the wind energy sector in the staff´s professionalization matter are: - Current skills established for wind energy sector´s staff in Spain established by INCUAL (National Institute of Qualifications) refer only to operational training in the installation and operation of the wind farms (ENAE 193_3 "Management Installation and Maintenance of Wind Parks" ) However, there are no standardized training programs at European level. Whereas the existing frequent mobility in this sector, training contents at the European level would facilitate the qualification of professionals and will facilitate the mobility of staff between countries. - At present, the wind energy sector has courses with traditional learning techniques and contents. This sector is characterized by the relocation of the workplace, making it difficult to support the organization and training centers. With innovative training tools using ICT the distance learning would be facilitated. Fig. 1 The general structure of question groups for the serious game 978-1-5090-5467-1/17/$31.00 ©2017 IEEE 25-28 April 2017, Athens, Greece 2017 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON) Page 2