Sabrina Sailer-Frank

Sabrina Sailer-Frank is a researcher at the Chair of Business Education under Prof. Dr. Silvia Annen at Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg. Holding an M.Sc. in Business Education from the same institution, she focuses on gamification in vocational education, digital transformation in teaching, and competency modeling for corporate training contexts.

• Education: M.Sc. in Business Education (Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg, 2020), B.Sc. in Business Education (Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, 2018)
• Current roles: Doctoral Research Fellow (2020–present), Operational Manager for EU-funded projects like EDEKomp and VR-Intense

Research Interests center on:

• Gamification dynamics in self-directed and collaborative learning
• Postdigital higher education redesign
• Competency development in corporate and vocational settings
• Virtual Reality integration in technical training
• Digital communication strategies during crises

Recent Publications analyze gamified pedagogies, pandemic impacts on academia, and competency models for vocational training in Germany, Brazil, and Sweden. Her work appears in the International Journal for Infonomics, CICE | WCE Proceedings, and Zeitschrift für Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik.

Project Involvement includes:

• Operational management of Erasmus+ VR-Intense project
• Leading DigiTrain VET and EDEKomp initiatives
• Coordinating the VR room development at HTW Dresden

Transfer Contributions feature workshops on gamification and VR applications at institutions like ProfiLehrePlus Hochschullehre Bayern and Akademie für Lehrerfortbildung Dillingen.