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Virtuelle Lernformen brauchen neue Vermittlungsstrategien. Schneider berichtet von zwei Online-Trainer-Kursen, die zusammen mit dem englischen Partner „Abacus Learning Systems“ über den Landesverband der Volkshochschulen Schleswig-Holstein angeboten werden.
Further training (FT) is an important element of the modern knowledge economy. Based on expert interviews from four case-study regions, the paper analyses the relevance of markets, hierarchies, and networks as coordination mechanisms in FT, the strategies of providers, and the resulting performance of local FT service systems. We find increasing modularisation and digitalisation of FT services, which enables FT provision in less attractive markets but does not contribute to the value coproducti…
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.
The European survey of continuing vocational training in enterprises, CVTS, is a unique source of internationally comparable data. This report provides the first detailed comparative analyses of data from the third European survey of continuing vocational training in enterprises. It also includes a comprehensive evaluation of data quality from the European perspective to improve the survey. This publication is the result of a collective effort, with contributions from Cedefop colleagues Katja N…
Facing todays technological development, one of the central issues further education has to deal with is how to support employees in handling the changes their work activities are subjected to and in shaping these changes. Six company case studies were conducted in logistics and in stationary retailing in order to understand how work activities change on the operative level and what effects might be observed regarding the employees’ competence development. Based on a subject-related approach th…
