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Referring to the KOSMOS project, the article examines the significance of quality in academic continuing education, the requirements directed at quality management, and options for development in the project. The focus is on new programmes for non-traditional target groups.
Der Vortrag skizziert die Qualitätsdebatte in der Weiterbildung und stellt die relevanten Qualitätsmanagementmodelle vor. Das sind die aus dem wirtschaftlichen Sektor stammende ISO-Normenreihe, die Selbstbewertung nach EFQM sowie das Lernerorientierte Qualitätsmodell. Erstere wurden für den Bereich der Weiterbildung in modifizierter Form nutzbar gemacht und bilden mit Begriffen wie Kundenorientierung, Prozessverbesserung, Selbst- und Fremdevaluation einen wesentlichen thematischen Fundus, durch…
Didactical quality is a crucial precondition if all citizens of the European Union are to be able to develop multilingual skills. Here it is in particular adult education centres which have the task of training their teachers and offering them continuing education so as to make possible optimum didactical classroom instruction. This article shows that applied linguistics and research on teaching languages can provide an important impetus here. The author moreover issues a plea for specialised d…