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Welche Kompetenzen benötigen Bürgerinnen und Bürger, wenn es um den Umgang mit digitalen Medien geht? Der Autor zeichnet Unterscheidungen von Medienkompetenz und Medienbildung nach und kommt zu dem Schluss, dass neben Kompetenzen in der Anwendung kritisch-reflexive Elemente im Umgang mit digitalen Medien vermittelt werden sollten.
The staff in adult and continuing education is the most important factor for a high quality and demand-oriented development of training courses and their effective implementation. However, there existed only insufficient data and information on these persons. For the first time, the wb-personalmonitor now provides data on demographics, employment situation, living conditions, job profiles, qualifications as well as job related attitudes for the staff in adult and continuing education. Thus, the…
The article provides an insight of the opportunities and challenges of analysing spatial aspects in continuing education including the various concepts of spatial references. Regional continuing education characteristics are presented based on initial findings of the German Continuing Education Atlas.
Migrant organisations have developed their own training opportunities for their employees. However, a qualified provision remained difficult. There remain needs of continuing education, e.g. the development of the organisation and its employees. Here the institutions of continuing education are needed.
The article presents key findings of a study on the attitude towards education among immigrants. The study also covers interests in continuing education particularly with regard to parent education programmes.
