Online education
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In view of an increasingly dynamic working world, German universities must become more involved in the field of digital education. Prof. Christoph Meinel, Director of the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), has called for this on the occasion of the current debate about new educational formats.
"Lifelong learning is already one of the basic requirements for surviving in a constantly changing labor market"
says the Potsdam IT scientist.
According to Meinel, too few universities are taking advantage of the opportunity to make up-to-date knowledge accessible to a broad public via MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses).
Outsourcing the infrastructure for these courses to US providers is not a long-term solution. On the one hand, educational offers reach talented people all over the world, who are needed to strengthen the location and urgently need to be brought into their own country. Secondly, user data is handled differently in the USA than in Germany.
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