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The Plan to market transition brought with it the restructuring of the labour market, but also unemployment, new job profiles, and ongoing reform of the education system. Within the catch-up process of joining the EU and harmonizing the legislative framework and developments with the aquis communautaire, the effort to set up and implement effective policies was relatively coherent. But the results achieved so far show that much more efforts are needed, as the participation rate of adults in edu…
This contribution summarizes the most important trends in further education in Germany as they were elaborated in a secondary analytic research project of the DIE (Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenbildung – German Institute for Adult Education) in 2007. According to the study, participation in adult education in Germany is increasing after long years of decrease, even though, overall, financing of adult education has been further reduced. Cooperation as well as competition between adult educatio…
Immigration countries such as Germany require legal, social and educational measures to organize migration. Both, the immigrant as well as the host population need to be the concern of educational and training activities. Linguistic, intercultural and political educational programmes are particularly relevant. The REPORT on “Continuing Education and Migration” focuses on empirical research findings and implemented concepts: What are the key issues in continuing education to be tackled within th…
Beim Lehren und Lernen können wir von KI profitieren, so Lutz Goertz im »Stichwort«. Alina Köchling und Shirin Riazy zeigen Vorteile von Learning Analytics auf, warnen aber, dass der Einsatz auch Diskriminierungen nach sich ziehen kann. Wie Lern-Empfehlungen durch die Maschine helfen, Lernziele zu erreichen, zeigt das EULE-Team, und Ralf Klamma beschreibt, wie Wearables und Augmented Reality die Weiterbildung verändern. Cäcilie Kowald stellt intelligente Chatbots als allzeit verfügbare Dialogpa…
Little is known about the qualifications of trainers in further vocational education. Some hold a degree in educational sciences. At the same time prospective trainers seem to be part of the target group of programs that specialize in adult education. The study focuses on which contents are intended in these programs and whether they could qualify for a later occupational activity as a training professional. For this purpose the course descriptions of 32 programs were analyzed and 10 responsibl…
Unter dem Stichwort "Multimedialer Zugang zur Aus- und Weiterbildung in Europa" wurde die Initiative PROMETEUS entwickelt. Der Text gibt einen kurzen inhaltlichen Überblick über die Initiative.
Die Debatte um OER kann aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln geführt werden: Michael Jäger ist Geschäftsführer der Eduversum GmbH, die zum Teil auf Freemium-Angebote wie Lehrer-Online setzt, aber auch OER im Auftrag öffentlicher oder privater Institutionen erstellt. Annett Zobel ist Vorstand des Vereins edu-sharing NETWORK, der stark in der OER-Szene als Vernetzer von Infrastrukturakteuren unterwegs ist. Dr. Sabine Preusse schaut auf das Thema wiederum aus der Perspektive einer selbstständigen Be…
