Research
We explore how adult education can be made inclusive, digital and effective.
Services
Digital tools, specialist portals and data – for teachers, researchers, students and interested parties.
Institute
We offer research, transfer and infrastructure for lifelong learning.
The project GRETA – basics for a standardized process for recognizing teachers’ and trainers’ competences in adult and continuing education – developed an interdisciplinary structural competence model encompassing all tasks for teachers and trainers in adult and continuing education. It is the basis for developing procedures for recognizing and certifying relevant competences for teaching and training in adult and continuing education. So far GRETA will develop a concept for validation procedur…
AiKomPass is a web-based tool to make informal and non-formal competences within the electrical and metal industries visible. It is based on an interview study with potential users and a task inventory, which covers tasks of work areas like process planning, production, maintenance and logistics within production processes. The tool itself was developed within a participative design process. It enables employees and people in search of employment to self-assess their ability to fulfil working t…
Dieser Beitrag beschreibt zunächst das Konzept und die Methode der E-Portfolio-Arbeit und führt aus, welche Chancen sie für die Lernenden und die Erwachsenenbildung bietet. Dazu werden Projekte vorgestellt. Der Einsatz der E-Portfolio-Arbeit erfordert sowohl ein Umdenken als auch Veränderungen in der Aus- und Weiterbildung der Weiterbildner selbst. Auf der Grundlage von Beiträgen zu den notwendigen Kompetenzen von Lehrenden und Hochschulpädagog/inn/en wurden daher Interviews mit E-Portfolio-erf…
The DIE Journal on Adult Education (DIE Zeitschrift für Erwachsenenbildung) was renamed "weiter bilden" in 2018. The quarterly DIE Journal focuses on a specific topic to inform about current developments in adult education. It is mostly directed at full-time employees and planners in continuing education as well as authorities in education policy and administration. It is scientifically sound as well as practice oriented - magazine as well as reflection instrument.
EUROPOOL richtet sich an Frauen ohne anerkannten Berufsabschluß und an Berufsrückkehrerinnen. Im Blick auf die unterschiedlichen Voraussetzungen, Qualifikationen und Kompetenzen der Frauen bündelt EUROPOOL Qualifizierungsmaßnahmen mit unterschiedlichen Zielen.
This paper draws on three data sources – a national survey from Germany of adult literacy and numeracy skills (leo. – Level-One Study), the OECD’s Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competences (PIAAC), and case studies of workplaces in England – to argue for a greater focus by policymakers and researchers on the literacy demand experienced by adults. We consider the heterogeneity of the population of adults deemed functionally illiterate by large-scale national and internatio…