Self-organized continuing education! - Development of further education didactics for self-organized learning processes
Self-organized and self-directed learning is becoming increasingly important, particularly in the context of lifelong learning and the individual shaping of educational and employment biographies. Digital media are playing an important role in the digitalization of the world of work. The aim of the project is therefore to strengthen self-organized and self-directed learning supported by digital media in continuing vocational training.
To this end, a current continuing education didactic for self-organized learning processes is being developed and tested as an example for the lecturers of the Volkshochschule Dreiländereck in vocational continuing education courses. In order to enable the implementation of continuing education didactics in everyday education, a method kit for lecturers in continuing vocational training as well as recommendations for action and a field report for continuing education providers will be produced as project results.
- The results of the project are summarized in the publication "Selbstgesteuertes Lernen in der beruflichen Weiterbildung. A handbook for theory and practice" and prepared for academic discussion and suggestions for transfer into continuing education practice.
- The method kit is available online at https://selbstgesteuertes-lernen.de/.
- The experience report and the recommendations for action were published in the "Edition VHS AKtuell" series of the Saxon Adult Education Association. You are welcome to request a copy from us.
The development and testing of the didactics and other materials produced in the project is based on a comprehensive research design consisting of two sub-studies.
The long-term goal of the project is to anchor the didactics of self-organized learning in various providers of continuing vocational training. To this end, close cooperation with representatives from continuing education practice will be sought during the course of the project within the framework of a scientific advisory board.
Information on the course of the project
The research design for developing and testing the didactics of self-organized learning in continuing vocational training and the other materials produced in the project is based on two sub-studies.
Sub-study 1 deals with the status quo of self-organized learning in continuing vocational education and training within the framework of a literature review, a document analysis and qualitative and quantitative surveys of lecturers, participants and management staff at various continuing education and training institutions.
Sub-study 2 serves to test the didactics derived from the literature review and the method kit in the continuing vocational training courses offered by the VHS Dreiländereck. This testing is flanked by a further training program for lecturers and accompanying scientific research. The generalization of the findings is made possible by the close interlinking and reflection of the two sub-studies.
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