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Already Max Scheler developed a functional definition of education. With Scheler, education is not only not opposed to usefulness, but even prerequisite for reaching certain aims at all. In terms of the postmodernist media and mass society the relationship between education and usefulness has to be reformulated. With reference to Lyotard, the author develops a concept of education as a regulative idea. Under these conditions, individuals are not expected to integrate themselves culturally into…
The coinage Podcast is composed of iPod and broadcast and denotes radio- or video broadcasts which can be subscribed via a free software, cost free. One can copy into an iPod, a portable MP3-Player from Apple, not only entertaining but also educational contents. »Podcasting« is the dissemination of sequences from radio- or video broadcasts, it unfolds a corresponding potential for education providers. A search in the apple-music-store has resulted in the Podcast offer concerning education and u…
Why have we lately seen a renaissance of the concept of „region“ in the social sciences? The author explores changing perspectives on this concept against a background of technical and social development. While the electronic media allow networking as a form of cooperation that is motivated by functional aspects and exceeds regional boundaries, cooperation within the physical boundaries of a region is facilitated by ease of personal contacts, shared facilities and common institutions. Both tend…
Family is a learning space with special features. Learning processes do not only involve children but also adult family members. Taking the example of the acquisition of media competences, the older generation’s learning processes are analysed based on the qualitative IgelMedia study. With regard to adult education, the author concludes that intra-family learning processes attract attention. The focus should not only be on transferring new knowledge but also on the classification of acquired sk…
Das Lernen am Computer gelingt unterschiedlich gut. Die Beobachtungen aus einem Schulprojekt zeigen, dass offenbar den individuellen Prädispositionen der Lerner eine hohe Bedeutung zukommt. Es gibt im Blick auf mediengestütztes Lernen anscheinend ähnliche „Lernertypen“ wie beim „traditionellen Lernen“. Der Beitrag erzählt von zwei Lernerbiographien; für einen Schüler ist der Computer ein Hindernis, für eine andere Lernerin ist der Rechner eine Chance, insofern er „anonymen und bestärkende Einze…
The author describes the emergence of the „virtual organisation“ concept as a tendency towards customization of products on the one hand and the development of a suitable technological basis on the other hand. Networking is discussed as a necessary but not sufficient prerequisite. First and foremost, the process of virtualisation requires changes in the organisational structure of companies that may go as far as a redefinition of the relationship between employees who, if forced into a role of …
Rief die technologische Weiterentwicklung in den USA nach anfänglicher Euphorie für elektronisches distance learning bald Skepsis – vor allem auf Grund nur marginaler Lernerfolge – hervor, so ist seit etwa fünf Jahren auf College- und Universitätsebene eine breite Akzeptanz von e-learning in Kombination mit face-to-face-Lernarrangements zu verzeichnen. Landesweit wird der Anteil aller Belegungen für Online-Kurse bis 2009 auf 31 Prozent prognostiziert. Allerdings zeigen sich heute vor allem priv…
Ein historischer Längsschnitt zum Thema Virtualität und Virtualisierung.
