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With this article, the author (of the Institute of International Cooperation, an institution within the German Adult Education Association, IIZ/DVV) opens up a readers’ discussion in this publication on the subject of education and the EU extension. In his article, an overview of the points of discussion is given. After the breakdown of the socialist societies in the middle and Eastern European countries, educational facilities suffered a severe loss of authority. This has only partly been ba…
For over 40 years, the „Bibliography of Adult Education“ has been published. This service of the DIE (German Institute of Adult Education) has now been changed into a more modern online format. Looking back, the bibliography may well have been a little hampered by its aspiration to completeness, but it still has performed an essential role in making adult education an important discipline within educational science.
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 …
Die Universität Freiburg in der Schweiz hat ein Management-Modell für die Weiterbildung von Führungskräften in Nonprofit-Organisationen (FMM) erarbeitet. Eine ganzheitliche Herangehensweise soll den Teilnehmenden schnell einen praxisorientierten Nutzen garantieren und gleichzeitig eine Erfolgskontrolle ermöglichen. Der Artikel beschreibt das Verfahren und nennt die angewandten Kriterien zur Messung des individuellen und betrieblichen Nutzens.
Historischer Längsschnitt zum Thema Nutzen
