Doctoral Dissertations
Seminar for PhD Students
The Seminar „Adult and Continuing Education“ allows PhD students to regularly meet and academically exchange on their dissertation and research projects in those thematic fields. It takes place each semester at the FernUniversität in Hagen and is supplemented by online meetings in Adobe Connect. In addition to guest lectures, the meetings are dedicated to presenting and discussing the students‘ projects.
Current Dissertations
- (Further) Development of Pedagogical Professionalism through Reflection on Theory and Practice. A qualitative study on learning and reflection processes of professionally experienced students in the B. A. Educational Science
- Inclusive Distance Higher Education in 2050: The Perspective of Students
- Counselling in continuing academic education – an exploratory study
- Digitisation of Universities. A qualitative study on the actions of actors in internal university support structures.
- The Role Conception of Program Deans as Actors of Middle Management in a Teaching-Related Change Process
- Shaping Change – On the Interplay Between Department-Specific Organisational Cultures and Strategic Change Processes at Universities
- Continuing Higher Education in the Austrian Higher Education System: Formation and Dynamics of a Transforming Field
Completet Dissertations
- Faculty’s Figurations. An Educational Analysis of Cooperative Teaching Practices at Universities.
- Interconnecting Theory and Practice in Continuing Higher Education
- Expertise – Bots – Distance Learning. A Successful Combination? A Design-Based Research Study on Promoting Adaptive Expertise Through the Use of Educational Bots in Distance Learning
Adult and Continuing Education
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