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Firstly, the author explores the terminological field covering the outcome of educational counselling and develops beneficial dimensions, which are visualised as a network. The author stimulates the German discussion with methodological topics and research results originating in British evaluations. Scientific studies used to confirm the positive effects of educational counselling. Finally the report suggests an agenda for researching the benefits in the field of counselling in continuing edu…
The German Institute for Adult Education (DIE) works as a provider of scientific ser vices for both research and practical work in adult and fur ther education, supplying institutions and researchers with statistical data, documents and support. Its strategic position at the interface between theory and practice corresponds with the institutes specific understanding of its own supportive function and distinctive corporate identity: transmitting scientific knowledge to practice and vice versa, p…
Times for (re)interpretation Transitions and their adaptation from the perspective of biographical research The contribution asks for the meaning of transitions in the educational system from a perspective of pedagogical biography research. Transitions effectuate initially mainly insecurities, clearing of one’s own basis, development of new perspectives, accepting or changing of the new situation, release of energy and activities for mastery of changes. In the example of an interview passage …
Who are the key players in the field of adult economic literacy? How can continuing education programmes be characterised e.g. from a thematic and content-related perspective? Based on findings gained in a survey on the current programme situation conducted by the DIE, the article provides an overview of the German landscape.
The German Institute for Adult Education (Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenenbildung) in Bonn annually publishes this continuing training statistics, in which data from five large organizations of general and political further training are summarized. The commentated tables contain numerous illustrations to the legal form, personnel, financing and meeting profiles of the training organizations involved.
This paper deals with the relation between the "effort" produced by institutions of further education for successfully realizing inter-organizational participation in networks and the "significance" of participation for the performing of the services of the institutions. A polythetic classification based on the qualitative data material is presented that allows for the differentiation between three different groups of organizations based on the relation between effort and significance. The resu…
Die veränderten Anforderungen der Arbeitswelt stellen Beschäftigte vor neue Herausforderungen: Neben den klassischen Grundkompetenzen Lesen, Schreiben und Rechnen werden zunehmend erweiterte administrative, technische und soziale Kompetenzen gefordert. Praxiserfahrungen aus NRW-Projekten wie MENTO pro, BasisKomNet und GrubiKomNRW können jedoch exemplarisch Wege aufzeigen, wie der Zugang in Unternehmen dennoch gelingen und Erfolge zeitigen kann.
Welche individuellen Wirkungen zeitigt Bildungsurlaub? Eine neue Studie zeigt, dass die Teilnehmenden vielfältige Wirkungen mit ihrer Teilnahme an Bildungsurlauben verbinden. Die Autorin, Mitverfasserin der Studie, stellt deren Kernergebnisse vor.
Adaptive Unterstützungssysteme und Künstliche Intelligenz ermöglichen eine individuelle Anpassung des Lernprozesses, indem sie Inhalte und Aktivitäten auf der Grundlage von Daten über den bisherigen Lernverlauf personalisieren. Insbesondere in der Erwachsenenbildung können damit Herausforderungen wie begrenzte Lernzeit und heterogene Vorkenntnisse adressiert werden. Am Beispiel eines Online-Kurses diskutieren die Autorin und der Autor verschiedene Formen adaptiver Unterstützung, deren Potenzial…
