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Bildungstechnologie, so Isabell Grundschober im Stichwort, sollte didaktisch so ausgerichtet und eingesetzt werden, »dass Lernprozesse unterstützt werden und die Lernenden ihr Wissen, ihre Fähigkeiten und Kompetenzen in konkreten Situationen besser einsetzen können.« Neben Beiträgen zur Qualitätsfrage von digitalen Technologien (Schmidt-Hertha), zur Situation der EdTech-Branche (Schmid), zur Professionalisierung der Bildungstechnologie (Weinberger & Niegemann) und zur Zukunftstechnologie Blockc…
Weichenstellungen von heute werden die Zukunft von morgen mitgestalten. Welchen Beitrag kann die Erwachsenenbildung leisten und was werden die Themen sein, die in die Zukunft weisen? Die Beiträge des Heftes beschäftigen sich mit aktuellen Tendenzen: Medienkompetenz (Lehmann, Grube u.a.), Veränderungen in Berufsbiografien (Pongratz), Leben mit Anderen (Hafeneger), Erwachsenengrundbildung (Kamper) und künftige Aufgaben im institutionellen Gefüge von Weiterbildung (Schneider). Alfred Grosser (Par…
A variety of investigations are concerned with examining competencies of professionals in fields of adult education, neglecting the question what characterizes the activities they perform in order to organize learning situations. By analyzing an opening sequence of two different adult education lessons, the author shows, how microethnographic approaches of analyzing videotaped face-to-face interaction offer new insights in how participants ordinarily deal with challenges of establishing and sus…
Wie kann Qualität von Educational Technology in der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung bewertet werden? Der Autor plädiert für ein relationales Verständnis von Qualität und zeigt auf, wie Qualitätsaspekte der Bildungstechnologie in Qualitätsmanagementsystemen verhandelt werden können.
New ideas for supporting the human working memory are required to take advantage of the options of teaching/learning processes provided by digitalisation. A new "cognitive interface" is necessary for connecting human knowledge with the knowledge of digital resources.
The use of new digital techniques and media in class is almost socially mandatory. In his interjection, Klaus Peter-Hufer points out the advantages of programmes that do completely without digital media. Particularly text work are tactile and sensory processes, which are difficult to transfer into digital processes.
Programmes for persons who are not acquainted with learning can only be successful if teaching and learning is understood as a dialogical process between trainer and participant. One of the major abilities participants should achieve during this process is to take over the responsibility for their own learning. The author describes tools developed in her own practical work: a set of questions designed as a framework for the negotiation of the individual learning project.
Didactics – more than the art of teaching? The contribution gives an overview of the historical terms of didactics. With the background of changing paradigms, drawn is the entry of the didactical term into adult education and its development since the 1960s. One focus of the consideration is on the didactical change from “teaching“ to “formation of learning contexts”, which was influenced by the discussion on constructivism. Concluding, the author elaborates on the state of research on didac…
The concept of competencies has expansive effects for the definition of goals, contents and methods in teaching. The orientation on competencies therefore is more than a didactic principle like active-learning or learner-centered instruction. Coming from a concept of competencies as a didactical category as well as an aim of teaching, we will argue, that a comprehensive theoretical approach is needed, which delivers a theoretical founded orientation for both the decisions on contents and the me…
