Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB)

Learning with digital media

Web 2.0 technologies and mobile learning facilities open up new potentials for initial and continuing education and training. The articles pursue the question of whether and how learning is being changed by digital media, what new options they offer for the various learning venues and the different fields of action and how these options are already being implemented in practice. The promotion of media competence among teachers and learners plays a decisive role here as well.

In the editorial for this volume, Research Director Professor Dr. Reinhold Weiß points out that skills in handling digital media are acquired mostly informally. This makes it all the more important for promotion concepts to be geared to the relevant learning context and embedded in innovation strategies.

Other articles in this issue deal with the renewed European Agenda for Adult Learning as well as the current situation and the forthcoming tasks in implementing the German Qualifications Framework, dealt with by BIBB President Prof. Dr. Friedrich Hubert Esser under the heading "The GQF in concrete terms".