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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…
The author diagnoses a widening gap between scientific and general public: as political and social estimation of science rises, it vanishes from daily life and is taken into well-funded but not ver y well-known institutions and thus hidden from the view of the public. At the same time, ever-rising numbers of people are confronted with the results of scientific research in their daily lives and thus in a way in intimate contact with science, but at the same time unable to understand its workings…
Die Disziplin der Bildungsökonomie untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen Bildungswesen und wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung, zwischen Bildungspolitik und lebenslangem Lernen. In den 60er Jahren rückte die Frage nach der Bedeutung von Bildung für das wirtschaftliche Wachstum einer Gesellschaft in den Vordergrund. Pichts alarmierende Prognose, dass ohne Veränderung der Bildungspolitik und des Bildungswesens eine „bildungspolitische Katastrophe“ unausweichlich sei, bestimmt die Diskussion bis zum heuti…