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.
Heino Apel vertritt drei Thesen: „1. Es gibt eine Tendenz zur ‚Multimediatisierung’ von Wissensrepräsentationen. 2. Die Konstruktion von Wissenspräsentationen ist wesentlicher Bestandteil in Lernprozessen. 3. Es liegt eine Chance reicherer, zeitadäquaterer Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten in multimedial aufbereiteten Informationen.“ Demzufolge sollten multimediale Präsentationen in Unterrichtskonzepte einbezogen werden. Apel unterscheidet dabei drei Phasen: Wahrnehmung, Implementation und Gestaltung. Anh…
As a priority of education policy Lifelong Learning implies flexible individual learning pathways in different settings. Within the demographic change and the demand of higher skills higher education qualifications become increasingly important to reach employment, why higher education institutions need to open up against new target groups. This article focuses on further education offered by higher education institutions and intends to give a picture of the current demand and supply. Empirical…
This report examines the possible input of higher education institutions for developing the local education landscape. The education landscape in Biberach and the local college serve as an example for creating a regional education landscape in cooperation with public and industrial partners.
Effects of continuing education tests Continuing education tests aim at improving transparency of the quality of programmes on offer and initiating processes to improve quality at providers of continuing education. But what has the impact of continuing education tests been to date? The authors present selected results of an evaluation study. From a demand perspective, continuing education has not been transparent since the introduction of educational testing in 2002, either. 54% of the popul…
The article presents key findings of a study on the attitude towards education among immigrants. The study also covers interests in continuing education particularly with regard to parent education programmes.
Wie ist es dazu gekommen, dass das Land NRW im neuen Weiterbildungsgesetz öffentlich geförderte Weiterbildungseinrichtungen dazu verpflichtet, BNE-Angebote bereit zu stellen? Die Autorin zeichnet die Schritte und die Begründungen zur Verankerung von BNE nach.
