279 participants in a survey on elearning applications for foreign language learning in Volkshochschulen (German adult education schools) had little prior knowledge. While they do indeed have interest in such applications, they still keep to formats known from their previous learning experience. The participants in the survey estimate the potential of e-learning applications for foreign language learning as positive, but only in combination with traditional non-virtual classes. The…
Die Potenziale von E-Learning sind derzeit in der Diskussion. Vielfältige Studien haben in den letzten Jahren zu unterschiedlichen Bewertungen geführt. Mit dem hier vorliegenden Überblick über ausgewählte Studien zum Themenfeld „E-Learning“ von 2001 bis Anfang 2003 wird ein Service zur Verfügung gestellt, der die Orientierung erleichtern soll. Die zentralen Ergebnisse einiger Studien werden ausführlich dokumentiert. Links und weiterführende Hinweise erleichtern die weiterführende Recherche.
Blended learning – changed forms of interaction in adult education By means of blended-learning-scenarios the requirements on quality of the didactical concept for the e-learning are sketched from a media pedagogical perspective.
Adult education for people without school graduation or graduation from vocaltional training Report on a study for the OECD Germany participated in the partial undertaking “adult learning of the low educated and low skilled” within the OECD-programme “Thematic review on adult learning: The second round”. The contribution describes the decrease of the level of qualification of the younger population and from this it names the resulting requirements to adult education.
The article sets out to identify common prejudices on e-learning. Its pedagogical surplus depends on the methodical-didactic design. The authors back their verdict by experiences of learners in an online-based course. Learners judge new-mediasupported learning as being intensive, communicative, but time-consuming. E-learning requires self-discipline, selfmotivation, self-organisation, good time management and basic technical competences.
The aim of wider-benefits research is to record the complexity of benefits and other effects on both the personal and the societal levels deriving from the individual’s educational efforts. The central issue is: “What changes are affected by learning interventions?” Schuller/Desjardins 2010, p. 229). The exploration of the wider benefits of learning is still in its infancy. Pioneers in this field of research are, in particular, to be found in the UK – the Centre for Research on the Wider B…
Der Artikel behandelt die Strategien Lebenslangen Lernens, die in Großbritannien angewendet werden. Dabei geht er insbesondere auf die Verbindung von "Individual Learning Accounts" mit anderen Initiativen ein.
Man sollte annehmen, dass Blended Learning inzwischen weit verbreitet und als Lernform ausgereift ist. Am Beispiel betrieblicher Weiterbildung zeigt sich, dass dies nicht überall zutrifft. Was sind die Gründe dafür? Wo liegen Potenziale für die Weiterentwicklung? Darüber spricht Redakteur Jan Rohwerder mit Dr. Katja Bett, Gründerin der CLC – Corporate Learning & Change GmbH, Heiko Miedlich, Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Working Evolutions GmbH und Head of Business Development der WBwbS …
The article describes how community learning, a special form of adult education in Ireland, generates benefits for both the individual and the society. The authors’ elaborations are empirically based on the reports »At the Forefront«, »Community Education: More than just a Course« and »Sowing the Seeds of Social Change«, conducted by the Irish National Adult Learning Organization (AONTAS).
