AiKomPass is a web-based tool to make informal and non-formal competences within the electrical and metal industries visible. It is based on an interview study with potential users and a task inventory, which covers tasks of work areas like process planning, production, maintenance and logistics within production processes. The tool itself was developed within a participative design process. It enables employees and people in search of employment to self-assess their ability to fulfil working t…
This article presents the results of a recent online survey of graduates of the Austrian Academy of Continuing Education. Methodically, the survey’s results on benefit items are interpreted and answers to open questions are analyzed by qualitative content analyses. Empirical findings are subject to an interpretation using concepts of professionalization and the political agenda of validation of informal and non-formal learning. An important finding is, that WBA enhances individual professionali…
The complete annual report is to be found at http://www.die-bonn.de/id/36995. A shortened version of the annual report in English is to be found at http://www.die-bonn.de/id/37095.
The supplement to the annual report is to be found at http://www.die-bonn.de/id/36996. A shortened version of the annual report in English is to be found at http://www.die-bonn.de/id/37095.
Die in dieser Auswahlbibliografie aufgeführte und zum Teil kommentierte Literatur soll als Ausgangspunkt für das weitergehende Selbststudium zum Thema offene Bildungsressourcen (Open Educational Resources, OER) dienen. Die Auswahl konzentriert sich vor allem auf Veröffentlichungen nach 2012, da die OER-Bewegung ab diesem Jahr durch den ersten OER-Weltkongress der UNESCO in Paris deutlich an Dynamik und wissenschaftlicher Aufmerksamkeit gewinnen konnte. Die Struktur der Bibliografie orientiert s…
In 2015, a report led by the mentors of the World Health Organization Age-friendly cities program, proposed a review of the concept of active aging, including, alongside the three pillars (health, security and participation), lifelong learning, both as formal education (access to grade and diplomas), and in their informal dimension (when learning take places in daily life or in leisure activities). This study aims to analyze if the question of lifelong learning was raised and what the salient t…
Lifelong education for seniors is becoming a significant policy focus because of factors relating to the global aging society phenomenon. Yet the modern ‘educational demoralisation’ that can result from informal experiential learning not being sufficiently valued or encouraged, may also apply to later life learning—typically manifest as a ‘fear of ageing’ as well as ageism. This is especially so in contexts where policymakers tend to just mainly focus on the worrying economic, health and other …
