One of the challenges in the pedagogical use of new technologies is gaining understanding of the babylonic confusion of new concepts and terms. The author enumerates some of the most essential terms. His key questions are: Does e-learning really change education and learning fundamentally? Is the acquisition of knowledge by electronic means really totally different from most traditional ways? – „Computers don’t teach. Only educators do“.
The article presents the European development of new learning centres as well as educational and cultural centres, in which adult education institutions and libraries continue to merge. The author depicts three examples of these new institutions, which are increasingly becoming an element of educational urban development.
Over the past few years, various institutional forms of learning centres have been developed. Of these, the “one-stop shop” is the most relevant to the form of cooperation. Here, information, education and advice are all provided at one spot. Management models, structures and the effects of cooperation are elaborated based on this form of cooperation.
Virtual interaction or virtual silence? Setting out from the point of her study on resisting learning in the internet and a short clarification of her conception of learning, the author explores substantiation samples for the virtual silence in interactive situations when learning with the medium internet.
Ausgehend vom verbreiteten Phänomen der Prüfungsangst werden anhand ausgewählter Beispiele aktuelle Möglichkeiten vorgestellt, Prüfungen online durchzuführen. Vorgeschlagen wird eine Ergänzung von Online-Prüfsystemen um teststatistische Module durch die sowohl die Qualität von Prüfungsfragen optimiert als auch eine differenziertere Interpretation von Prüfungsergebnissen auf dem Hintergrund von Vergleichsgruppen ermöglicht wird.
