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Das Lehrbuch stellt das Lehren und Lernen Erwachsener ins Zentrum der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung, das als ein Mehrebenensystem betrachtet wird. Unterschieden werden die Ebene der bildungspolitischen Steuerung, die Ebene der Organisationen, in denen Aufgaben der Leitung, des Managements und der Programm- und Angebotsentwicklung verortet sind, sowie die Ebene der Lehr-, Lern- und Beratungsprozesse. Die Wirkungen der Erwachsenenbildung werden als Ergebnis einer Ko-Konstruktion der Handlungen v…
Case-based learning with videos is regarded as a promising way to promote the analytical abilities of teaching staff as a basis for their professional actions. For that purpose, the competence to assess and diagnose situations of learning and instruction is crucial, i.e., especially the ability to apply conceptual knowledge to pedagogical cases and to take teacher as well as learner perspectives into account. The article reports on the results of an experimental field intervention study aimed t…
Taking the Bavarian Vir tual University (Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern) as an example, the author shows that the innovative potential of vir tual universities lies in the idea of a cooperation of utterly different universities, with teaching staff from different faculties, schools and backgrounds. Bringing these divergent elements together, notably in the question of a mutual acknowledgement of credits issued by each university, is one of the most ambitious aims of the Virtuelle Hochschule Bay…
