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.
Consultancy in transition Interfaces of school and study as well as of study and job Setting out from the point of a teaching insight, which understands study as a job biographical phase, study entrance as well as study withdrawal as central interfaces of this phase achieve increasing significance. At the universities increasingly practical initiatives at these interfaces can be observed; certainly hardly any empirical studies exist that take a closer look at the need of the students at thi…
New trends in educational management This contribution is about sharpening the awareness in companies in an offensive way in the sense of a fair debate with the considerations of the other party by means of educational management. In order to invite all organisation members and to enable such processes, the project group scientific consultancy (PwB) has elaborated a staff development seminar with several affiliated groups. The basis for professional feedback talks and on these building staff…
Several paradoxes of a constructivistical didactics The problem of the transfer of constructivistical insights into didactical action models – theoretical and practical reflections In the following, four central theses of the radical constructivism insight are worked out, which show gains as well as contradictions from this perspective of adult didactical action. A concluding bottom line goes into the matter of the question of how viable constructivism is for didactical action.
Constructivism as a legitimation for self-directed learning with new media? Constructivism does not seldomly only serve primarily the legitimation of current "teaching-learning-technologies". So the conclusion of "constructivism legitimizes self-directed learning and therefore learning with new media" in the media-didactical literature is wide spread. The present text shall investigate, whether these are logical conclusions or whether they are "short circuits". For this the relation of const…
Profession-biographical formation competence and deliberation on these On national as well as on international level (OECD) there are currently deliberations on the subsequent study for adults (for example PIAAC study of OECD). Besides the rather cognitive domains such as for example literacy, numeracy or problem solving, it proves as significant primarily the survey of vocation biographical formation competence of adults against the background of the labour market political changes and t…
The process of interconnectedness as a win of synergy in educational institutions Experiences from the accompanied concrete network work This contribution gives an insight into concrete interconnection activities of institutions of advanced vocational training in Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia. For this, empirical findings are quoted, synergy effects and research demand are named.
Transfer of information and knowledge in development of organisations projects The contribution shows with an example of a project, how it dealt with the organisational development of educational institutions and how the transfer can be organised in an extensive way.
