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Die großen Fortschritte in der Computertechnik vereinfachen nicht nur das Sammeln und Verarbeiten großer Datenmengen, sie ermöglichen auch neue Lehr-/Lernformen in der Bildung. Vor allem in der industriellen Aus- und Weiterbildung kann das Training mit Augmented-Reality-Technologie und Wearables große Vorteile bringen. Der Autor zeigt Anwendungsbeispiele solcher Technologien auf, die aus dem WEKIT-Forschungsprojekt stammen.
Die Integrationskurse für Migrantinnen und Migranten vermitteln nicht nur sprachliche Kompetenzen, sondern auch Wissen über die deutsche Gesellschaft und ihre Werte. Gelingt diese Wertevermittlung aus Sicht der Teilnehmenden? Dieser Frage gingen die Autorin und der Autor in einer qualitativen Untersuchung mit zwölf leitfadengestützten Interviews nach.
Chatbots – Programme, die einen Dialog mit Nutzerinnen und Nutzern führen – werden vermehrt auch in der Weiterbildung eingesetzt. Cäcilie Kowald, Co-Autorin des Lernbot Kim der time4you GmbH, erläutert die Grundlagen der Funktionsweise von Chatbots und zeigt Möglichkeiten ihres Einsatzes auf.
During the last two decades, widening adult participation in higher education has become a central issue in international and especially European lifelong learning policy debates. At European level this is reflected in the Europe 2020 strategy set out by the European Commission. One headline target is to boost the share of the population aged 30–34 that has completed tertiary or equivalent education to 40 per cent by 2020. In the face of general trends such as the intensive use of ICT, the evol…
Didactical quality is a crucial precondition if all citizens of the European Union are to be able to develop multilingual skills. Here it is in particular adult education centres which have the task of training their teachers and offering them continuing education so as to make possible optimum didactical classroom instruction. This article shows that applied linguistics and research on teaching languages can provide an important impetus here. The author moreover issues a plea for specialised d…
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…
For the author, "globalization" and "lifelong learning" are the epitome of disengagement in the economic and/or the pedagogic field. Using the genre of meditation, he develops the concept of disengagement - a shedding of limitations - by the example of disasters, markets, exacting demands in the context of learning, the power of the economy, the responsibilities for education. Reflecting on Comenius and Ralf Dahrendorf, the author tries to “bring the amok-running economism back to its senses” a…
Temporalized “Bildungsgestalten” (educational formations) – The formation of the subject in the context of Lifelong Learning The article outlines the reference framework of an ongoing DFG-financed research project. Based on theoretical assumptions which rest upon German Bildungstheorie the project analyses Lifelong Learning as a special mode of the formation of subjects. The projects’ core research concept, which brings into focus the importance of education for the formation of the subjec…
