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The market for distance education of adults is experiencing a change of paradigm that has serious consequences on the financial structure of private schools for distance learning. The article sketches the chances and risks of this development: on the one hand the internet offers new possibilities in the form of net-based training concepts (NBT), on the other hand free of charge courses on the internet could cause the financial collapse of distance schools. The author gives reasons why this is n…
Die Arbeitsbedingungen in der öffentlich finanzierten, außerbetrieblichen beruflichen Weiterbildung im Geltungsbereich des SGB II/III sind prekär. Wie diese Arbeitsbedingungen verbessert werden können, legt der Autor, Branchenkoordinator Weiterbildung bei der ver.di-Bundesverwaltung, anhand eines Blicks auf den Mindestlohn-Tarifvertrag Weiterbildung und weitere tarifpolitische Optionen dar.
Die Frage des Nachweises informell und non-formal erworbener Kompetenzen wird gerade auch im Zuge des Fachkräftemangels diskutiert. Die Autorin zeichnet nach, welche Möglichkeiten digitale Entwicklungen wie Micro-Credentials, Open Badges und Data-Wallets bieten.
Labor economists argue that private investment in the training of workers may be too low. This view is based on the notion of worker skills being a common-pool resource available in principle to any employer. Such under-investment ought to be more pronounced the less difficult it is for outside firms to exploit the skills of workers qualified elsewhere. Thus, higher labor turnover may be expected to reduce firms’ commitment to developing worker qualifications; investment in general skills shoul…
The article aims at providing guidelines for a clear theoretical differentiation between various areas of tension in the planning of programs by outlining Structures and contradictory constellations have an impact on the contouring of antinomies and, thus, on program planning. A professional approach to program planning manifests itself in how such professional antinomies are dealt with, in particular. In addition to being of great value to the scientific analysis, this differentiation is also …
Sites and trajectories of learning disconnected from schooling and traditional training are discussed against the background of a new scientification of work related to the shift towards an information technological mode of production. This scientification is rooted in a new relation of theory and practice at work. Accordingly, workers play a new strategic role in work processes: they have to optimize procedures, define and search for reasonable objectives, reflect on methods and strategies of …
Construction of reflexive acting in work related learning adult education in the context of the company With the arising of post industrial work relations employment contracts, learning and further education develop to an important factor of success in companies. In an increasingly customer orientated and globalized economy, a reflective work action has become possible and necessary both in view of subject related developments and work environments and structures. This double reflexibility …
Net based communication is changing business and private life and education and learning of adults as well. Important condition for using new chances by new information and communication technologies for learning processes is media competence. – The authors describe components of media competence as a pedagogical target including technical competence, communicative competence and the competence of coping with the information flood. Problems are restrictions of participation on net based communi…
“Reflections on Self-Education” is dedicated to Rolf Arnold on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Like hardly any other representative in the field of continuing educational science, over the past decades Rolf Arnold has provided impulses for the reflection on adult teaching and learning e.g. based on his contributions to constructivist education, interpretive paradigms as well as empowerment didactics. His approach has developed continuously and is now regarded as systemic-constructivist educa…
Die Ergebnisse einer internationalen Befragung zeigen auf, dass die Nutzung von KI im Bildungswesen auch unter Lehrenden weit verbreitet ist. Zugleich melden viele Lehrende Weiterbildungsbedarfe an. Was resultiert aus diesen Ergebnissen? Die Autorinnen zeigen Kernergebnisse der Studie auf und stellen anschließend die Empfehlungen der Taskforce »KI im Bildungswesen« dar.
