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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…
Ein historischer Längsschnitt zum Thema Virtualität und Virtualisierung.
Heft 1/2004 ist die Jubiläumsausgabe zu zehn Jahren DIE-Zeitschrift. Eine Fotostrecke ersetzt die üblichen Schwerpunktbeiträge und wirft einen "anderen" Blick auf die Weiterbildungslandschaft. Weitere Themen: Hans-Jürgen Sattler: Vor dem Aus. Arbeitsamt-geförderte berufliche Weiterbildung; Ekkehard Nuissl von Rein: Entflechten oder Verflechten? Föderalismus, Bildungsplanung, Forschungsförderung.
Zum Einsatz Neuer Medien in der Weiterbildung liegen inzwischen empirische Erfahrungen vor, die hier gebündelt werden. Die Lage präsentiert sich differenzierter und diffiziler als noch vor wenigen Jahren angenommen.
Ob Geburtenrückgang oder »Methusalem-Komplott« der demografische Wandel und die Beziehungen von Jung und Alt sind in der alternden Gesellschaft zum Brennpunktthema geworden. Für die Weiterbildung ergeben sich eine Fülle von Fragen, von denen das Heft Generationenwechsel einige herausgreift (generationenübergreifende Didaktik, generationengerechte Weiterbildungsfinanzierung). Zugleich identifiziert es einen speziellen »Generationenwechsel«, der nur mittelbar mit dem gesamtgesellschaftlichen Pro…
The 4th sector of education is dominated and directed by market economical criteria while government organized adult education and lifelong learning systems for active labour market policy only have an additional function. The author discusses alternatives by intervention of education policy and isolates three types of financing systems in countries of the European Union: the market regime, the bureaucratical regime, and the mixed regime. Generally he realizes a trend towards a growing relevanc…
Representative surveys on participation in continuing education are the basis for analyses of lifelong learning as well as a description of the continuing education sector within the educational system. The information which is made available should be sufficiently differentiated in order to be able to distinguish different types of learning activities. One of the most important distinctions is the one between general and continuing vocational education. This article examines how and with what …
The focus of this article is on the necessity of competences and qualifications in the lower job segment of the labour market and the applicability of educational programs to acquire these and encourage people with low skills to participate in lifelong learning. Various requirement profiles of literacy in the work context are described. The importance of operational multipliers used in job-related basic education is pointed out. Exemplary methods, used in GRAWiRa in order to concretize basic ed…
