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Continuing higher education: International comparison of organisation and business areas While the relevance of lifefelong learning is growing internationally and is reflected in a changing and growing range of programme and course structures, German continuing higher education (CHE) institutions are unable to use this increased relevance to strengthen their own positions. An international comparison of CHE in six countries shows that types of organisation, responsibilities and the range of…
How can virtual spaces, digital media and its potential be utilised for cultural education programmes? The authors analyse the issue by looking at three good practice examples from adult education centres and point out the contributive effect of a reasonable and elaborate use of digital tools in cultural education for the participants’ digital education.
The article provides an insight into supranational and international continuing education monitoring. The author identifies three particularly relevant tools for adult learning: the Adult Education Survey conducted by the EU, the OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) and the European Lifelong Learning Index. The findings of the author’s dissertation substantiate the effects of monitoring and educational reporting in available data, evaluation practice and…
Consequences from subject-orientated research: questions to a media- and adult didactical requirement Based on empirical results that are currently available on subject-scientific basis on e-learning, the author wants to pose questions to media- and adult didactical set-ups. He asks these questions pointedly by bringing the “burning glass-thesis” up for discussion. Thereby it needs to be clarified, which characteristics justify a specific media-didactical discussion. Because these specific r…
Web 2.0: Chance oder Risiko, neue Möglichkeiten oder das Ende der bisherigen organisierten Erwachsenenbildung? Wie wird sich das Verhältnis zwischen Lehrenden und Lernenden ändern? Welche didaktischen Leitlinien braucht es, damit Lehren und Lernen im Web 2.0 gelingen? Diese und weitere Fragen beschäftigen Bildungsakteure aus Forschung und Praxis gleichermaßen, wie die rege Beteiligung im DIE-Online-Forum bestätigt. Eben dort prophezeit der Forum-Experte Frank Thissen, dass sich dem Sog des Web …
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Immer deutlicher zeichnet sich ab, dass neue Aspekte des 'Lernens' in den Mittelpunkt erziehungswissenschaftlicher Diskussion treten. Selbstgesteuertes Lernen, lebenslanges Lernen, offene Lernkulturen sind Stichworte, die den bildungspolitischen wie bildungspraktischen Übergang von einer an Lehre orientierten Didaktik zu neuen Sichtweisen des Lernens charakterisieren. Die Ausgabe 44 des REPORT beschäftigt sich mit dem Lernen unter dem immer häufiger betonten Aspekt der neuen Lernkulturen. Di…
