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Diese Literaturauswertung wurde vom DIE im Auftrag des BMBF im Zeitraum September 2003 bis Juli 2004 im Zusammenhang mit der BLK-Veröffentlichung „Strategie für Lebenslanges Lernen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland“ (http://www.blk-bonn.de/papers/heft115.pdf) der BLK Ad-hoc-AG vorgenommen. Sie stellt Literatur zum Lernen in unterschiedlichen Lebensphasen (Kinder, Jugendliche, junge Erwachsene, Erwachsene und Ältere) und zu Entwicklungsschwerpunkten lebenslangen Lernens (Einbeziehung informellen…
In the future it should be possible for educationally qualified applicants to be able to attend a university without university-entrance certificates acquired in a secondary school. This is meant to help ease the looming shortage of skilled labour in Germany. Facilities in the area of adult education are also to help facilitate the transition to a school of higher learning. The authors of this article report on a promising approach along these lines – the Lower Saxony model project »Open Univer…
The author from the department of further education in the political administration of the German state Rhineland-Palatinate names the trouble spots of the final report of the Expert Commission on Financing Lifelong Learning, insofar they affect the politics of the states (Laender). He outlines the implementation steps which are aimed at by Rhineland-Palatinate.
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Im Rahmen des Projekts ESPRID fand 1998 ein zweimonatiges Online-Seminar statt. Die Teilnehmenden kamen aus der Planungsebene von Weiterbildungseinrichtungen. Ihre Internetkenntnisse waren eher gering. Zu Beginn stand ein Präsenzseminar, in dem sich Arbeitsgruppen bildeten, die zu bestimmten Fachthemen Linklisten und Unterrichtskonzepte erstellen wollten. Außerdem wurden technische Kenntnisse vermittelt. Diese praktische Erprobung erwies sich als sehr wichtige Schnittstelle zwischen Präsenz- un…
In 2015, a report led by the mentors of the World Health Organization Age-friendly cities program, proposed a review of the concept of active aging, including, alongside the three pillars (health, security and participation), lifelong learning, both as formal education (access to grade and diplomas), and in their informal dimension (when learning take places in daily life or in leisure activities). This study aims to analyze if the question of lifelong learning was raised and what the salient t…
The IdA KompetenzCheck represents a scientifically developed test procedure for measuring non-formally and informally acquired competences and for evaluating competences in relation to German occupations. As part of the IdA KompetenzCheck, testees are confronted with an occupational profile’s typical fields of action. Multiple action-oriented questions concerning each field of action are presented in order to determine the corresponding level of competence. The IdA KompetenzCheck allows for tes…
The paper tackles the issue of procedures for the validation of competences, which are used in the tertiary education sector in order to evaluate an individual’s study ability on the basis of his/her vocational qualifications. This contested terrain will be explored by means of the University of Hamburg’s validation procedure (the so-called Eingangsprüfungsverfahren, §38 HmbHG). The focus of interest will be put on a qualitative reconstruction of individual decision-making processes during thes…
