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The opening up of higher education and the development of higher education insti-tutions as institutionalized and organized settings for lifelong learning has been focused in educational policy and scientific discourse for more than ten years. Consequently, research at the interface between further education and higher education research at international, European and national levels has been intensified in order to disclose framework conditions, forms and challenges regarding current and expec…
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Mit steigendem Wettbewerbsdruck wächst für Hochschulen die Notwendigkeit, ihre Leistungen zu vermarkten. Dies gilt besonders für die Weiterbildung, die sich auf einem stark konkurrenzbestimmten Markt durchsetzen muss. Nur wenige Hochschulen verfügen hier bislang über ein entsprechendes Know-how. Für die Positionierung der Weiterbildung im Wettbewerb ist die Reputation und Profilbildung der anbietenden Hochschule besonders bedeutsam, aber auch Aspekte der Angebotsgestaltung sowie der Kommunik…
The German Society for Promotion of Research at Old Age (Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Forschung im Alter – DGFFA) wants to give an impulse for the intensification of the discussion on those aspects of the demographic change, to which the universities/colleges would need to devote themselves to in due time, if they strive to consolidate their future viability in a society of lifelong learning. The presented suggestions in this contribution are components of a position paper that a wor…
Participation in continuing higher education has various perspectives particularly with regard to lifelong learning. By arrangements in the field of continuing higher education, universities need to react to changing learning and educational biographies as well as to enable prospects in the context of lifelong learning. An important aspect belonging to this is the transfer of knowledge. Based on the definition of influencing factors on transfer of knowledge by von Krogh and Köhne, the system of…
