Universitäre Weiterbildung im Kontext des Lebenslangen Lernens - Zwischen Diversifizierung und Profilbildung

Abstract

By looking at the common understanding of university continuing education, its increasing diversification, the target groups, as well as the current developments and the perspectives for the future this essay tries to show the general conditions of university continuing education based on a survey on the organization and structure of continuing education in higher education institutions. The concluding remarks show challenges for both a strategy of university continuing education within a university, and for an overall strategy of lifelong learning.

Lifelong Learning at Universities: Future Perspectives for Teaching and Learning

“…The data was analyzed using qualitative content analysis following predefined theoretically based categories (Mayring, 2000). Whereas results of the study have already been published with a focus on reflection and reflective learning (Cendon, 2016(Cendon, , 2017) -the primary interest in this paper lies in the students' development over the course of their studies.…”

“…One study focused on the perspective of students as professionally experienced learners, studying part time in job-accompanying master's programs in a blended learning model at the same German university specialized in professional studies. (Cendon, 2016(Cendon, , 2017 The other research focused on the perspective of experienced teachers in higher education and their teaching with adult learners in professional studies. (Cendon, Mörth, & Schiller, 2016) Hence, both studies form the two sides of teaching and learning practices.…”