Schlagwort: Education
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Dealing with challenges in the context of diversity and inclusion
Edvina Bešić from the University of Vienna is co-editor of the volume Resilienz.Inklusion.Lernende Systeme Vienna/Austria, February 20, 2025. The volume ‘Resilienz.Inklusion.Lernende Systeme’ brings together selected contributions from the 37th Annual Conference of Inclusion Researchers (IFO), which was organised from 26 February to 1 March 2024 by the Research Centre for Inclusive Education (FZIB), a cooperation…
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Position paper Strengthening continuing education – ensuring social cohesion
The support group of wb-web, the DIE platform for teachers in adult and continuing education, has published a position paper entitled ‘Strengthening continuing education – ensuring social cohesion: a shared responsibility’. The paper emphasises the central role of adult and continuing education in times of social change and calls for it to be more firmly…
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Making primary school children and parents fit for the internet and AI
1.7 million in funding for the development of an educational programmeThe Federal Ministry of Education and Research is providing 1.7 million euros in funding for a new project involving Bielefeld and Paderborn universities, a church educational institution and an association for digital learning. The scientists involved in the project are developing an educational programme that…
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Educated but gullible? Who falls for misinformation and why
Researchers at the MPI for Human Development have analysed who is particularly susceptible to online misinformation and why. Their meta-analysis reveals surprising patterns in how demographic and psychological factors – including age, education, political identity, analytical thinking and motivated reflection – influence people’s ability to assess the accuracy of information. For example, people with a…
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Electricity theory in augmented reality
Scientists at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg are working with students to develop an augmented reality app that can be used to teach pupils about physical processes, especially electronics, in a tangible way. The PUMA project won the AVRiL 2024 competition. Würzburg, October 1st, 2024 When I started my first apprenticeship in the 1990s, understanding how electricity works,…
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Train companies in the use of mixed reality Project developed training tools for employees
St.Pölten, 08.08.2024. Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) – often summarised as Mixed Reality (MR) or Extended Reality (XR) – not only expand the possibilities of data visualisation, but also enable new forms of collaboration. In a joint project, four universities and more than 20 well-known (industrial) companies investigated how the technologies can be…