Intergenerational learning can be considered as a chance for institutions of adult education. Besides explicitly planned courses for different generations, intergenerational learning opportunities also take place incidentally in the educational work in seminars and courses, when the participants belong to different age groups. In both cases, the question arises how to arrange those courses didactically in order to support intergenerational learning processes. Based on systematic considerations …
Based on considerations of the signaling theory and the reputation approach this study examines whether a relationship between employer-provided continuing vocational training and the success of establishments to recruit external qualified staff, can be demonstrated. The empirical analysis is based on a survey of establishments in Germany carried out in 2011. The results of a multivariate analysis show that establishments with continuing vocational training are more successful in recruiting qua…
First results from the PIAAC survey, which was conducted in 25 countries, will be published in October 2013 by OECD. PIAAC collected information about adult competencies through representative data from a background questionnaire and from assessments of three competence domains. In Germany exists an additional study called "Competencies in Later Life" (CiLL), which is designed for people (aged) between 66 and 80 years. This article presents the context of the study, the process of data collecti…
The article focuses on the characteristics of the virtual seminar form of »online group learning«. The online programme »Marketing for Continuing Educators« , which is part of the correspondence course »Adult Education« by the Distance & Independent Studies Centre at the technical University of Kaiserslautern, indicates the course of seminars of this sort. The role and function of presenting this type of seminar is particularly analyzed. Also, critical issues such as the anonymity of individual…
The report covers approaches for research and modeling an orientation to social spaces of educational facilities in synergy with real-world oriented search for education. According to the author, it is based on four central categories: living environments, educational spaces, thematic portals and learning cultures. The analyses of educational participation in social spaces from a meso and macro didactical perspective, based on educational theories, can support the identification of educational …
The term »valorization« has gained a wide distribution by the EU support programme of vocational training (Leonardo da Vinci). The author points to the prospective that the term will soon be able to establish itself in other educational areas. Valorization can be described as a process of dissemination and utilization of project results with the aim of optimizing their value, increasing their impact and integrating them into training systems. A correlatively strategy shall be existent in projec…
Im ersten Quartal des Jahres veröffentlicht das Deutsche Institut für Erwachsenenbildung seinen Jahresbericht: Neben wichtigen Ereignissen des vergangenen Jahres werden dort die Tätigkeiten, Ergebnisse, Entwicklungen und haushaltstechnischen Daten des Instituts, seiner Programme und Projekte beschrieben.
