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Qualification and innovation in the region The contribution of small and medium-sized companies In this contribution the results of a survey of small and medium-sized companies on qualification performances and further education outlays are sketched and follow up points for further results and perspectives of formation are presented.
Weiterbildung unterscheidet sich von anderen Bildungsbereichen wenn es um die Vermittlung zwischen Theorie und Praxis geht. Die Vielfältigkeit in beiden Bereichen macht es nötig, auch zwischen unterschiedlichen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen und zwischen unterschiedlichen Praxisfeldern zu differenzieren. Der Autor benennt wesentliche Strukturelemente einer solchen Vermittlungsarbeit und zeigt unterschiedliche Formen der Vermittlung.
The first generation of people with professorships started work in the 1970s.They were scientifically exploring and at the same time working practically aligned. Their educational scientific basic approach to work was taken up by the succeeding generations of scientists, developed further and extended by new topics. The futher alteration of generations lets us await a prosperous development of the panel that is open towards the future.
Can the benefit derived from a course in further education be measured? Which methodological considerations are to be taken into account? It must be defined first of all which indicators are supposed to indicate the benefit. Evaluators and stakeholders must agree on set points. Data have to be collected using the methods of qualitative as well as quantitative research. Under evaluation aspects, anecdotic evidence has no value. At the end of the article, the author sums up four basic methods of …
Das Positionspapier des DIE aus dem Jahr 2001 befasst sich mit den Herausforderungen, die die Neuen Medien an die Erwachsenenbildung stellen. Mit dem Umbruch der gesellschaftlichen Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten werden die bewährten Formen der individuellen und institutionellen Vermittlung und Aneignung von Bildung in Frage gestellt. Durch Globalisierung und Beschleunigung ökonomischer Prozesse vollzieht sich ein Strukturwandel, Informations- und Wissensbestände wachsen stark an, ändern sich und v…