Interactive Breakout Session SKI13
Open Web-based Learning Spaces for Adult Educators
Date Thursday, Dec 1 Time – RoomCharlottenburg II
The Open Web Based Learning space (“OWL”) is designed for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) of educational staff in adult education (AE) in Germany; targeting a community of more than 500.000 professionals.
The online space has been created and run by the German Institute for Adult Education (www.die-bonn.de).
The learning space will offer both competence oriented and situative learning pathways as well as an infrastructure for collaboration between adult educators in online communities of practice.
It combines state-of-the-art open-source learning technologies (e-Portfolios and LMS) with innovative competence assessment and validation software (interfaces to the European initiatives for the Validation of Informal and Non-Formal Learning (VINFL)).
The contents will be entirely delivered via OER.
This learning café will consist in its first half of a presentation of the OWL approach, the open learning space as well as the technical and didactical concept. In the second half we would like to discuss with the international audience the different conceptual, technical and instructional aspects and carry out an interactive session on the demands for web-supported CPD for educational professionals.
Participants will get insight into the current developments in one of the biggest German digital teaching and learning projects, learn about the combination of state-of the art learning technologies and competence validation and get an insight into a demand driven, problem oriented approach to web-supported CPD for educational professionals.
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Moderators
Tim Scholze
Scientific officer, The German Institute for Adult Education - Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning, Germany
Tim Scholze has been working in R&D in different educational sectors related to innovative learning fields in VET and AE and as scientific expert in (Universities of Kassel, German Institute for ADULT Education, DVV International, the REVEAL group).
He holds a PhD in educational sciences and is chairman of the blended learning institutions’ cooperative (blinc eG); a European umbrella organisation of experts from practice and science from 22 EU members states working on competence oriented learning and validation of informal and non-formal learning.
Since 1997 Tim has developed and coordinated various European projects in the framework the Lifelong Learning/ERASMUS+ Programme and its sub-actions (LdV, Grundtvig, Comenius, KA3), LIFE+ (Environment) programme, the eLearning initiative, INTERREG, the ESF and the Climate KIC (EIT, H2020) since 1997. Since then he has designed and managed more than 50 transnational European projects, mainly in the field of innovative, cross-sectoral and participative learning approaches, competence based learning, validation of key competences and regional capacity building; partly with a focus on projects related to sustainable development and climate change.
Since 2015 he is scientific officer in a research and development project at the German Institute for Adult Education (www.die-bonn.de) which aims at developing an interactive, open learning space for the large community of adult educators in Germany.
Since the early 90s he has been regularly teaching in the VET and Adult Education sector. Currently, he is teaching at the University of Duisburg Essen of the module “International Adult Education” with a focus on Validation of informal and non-formal learning. He has gained an extensive list of keynotes and panel inputs on the topics of blended learning and VINFL since 2007.
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Carmen Biel
Project Manager, The German Institute for Adult Education - Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning, Germany
Carmen Biel is a research associate at the German Institute for Adult Education in Bonn, Germany.
Since 2015, she has been working as a project manager of a research and development project that aims at the development of an interactive, open learning space for the large community of adult educators in Germany. She holds a degree in educational science of the University of Hamburg, Germany.
In 2009, she worked as the training coordinator at a north German broadcasting company for an in-house software changeover.
From 2011 to early 2015, she was employed at the Knowledge Media Research Center in Tuebingen, Germany. Within that position, she worked in a FP7 project as a research associate and work package leader.