Sep 08 2025

6th International Online Guest Lecture on Time and Learning
Human beings are inherently temporal entities - our lives, experiences, and learning are deeply shaped by time. In this thought-provoking lecture, Prof. Dr. Sabine Schmidt-Lauff explores how lifelong and lifewide learning are influenced by temporal dynamics and transitions in our modern, globalized society. Key questions include: How does time shape…
Jul 25 2025

DigiTaKS* presentation at PaTHES Conference 2025
At this year’s 7th Annual Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Conference in Dublin, held from June 10–12, 2025, Jan Schiller and Marie Rathmann presented findings from the DigiTaKS* project.The contribution, titled “Transformative digital competences: Reclaiming creativity for critical thinking”, is largely documented and available via OpenHSU under the DOI 10.24405/20211
May 14 2024

STREAM Online Research Symposium Update
Since January 2024, 150 people registered to the online Research Symposium Series titled "Spaces and Times of Transitions - Recalibrating the Multiple Scales of Change in Adult Education" organized by the ESREA STREAM Network (Spaces, Times and the Rhythms of the Education of Adults and its Movements) with the support…
Apr 08 2024

AI in higher education, training and adult education – an international survey
Research collaboration between the HSU (Professorship for Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning) and the Institute for Adult Learning, Singapore (Lead) The International survey on artificial intelligence in higher education, training and adult learning led by the IAL (Institute for Adult Learning, Singapore) examines how technological innovations are changing our educational…
Jun 20 2023

New Publication: “Comparative Research in Adult Education”
Lisa Breitschwerdt, Jörg Schwarz, Sabine Schmidt-Lauff (Eds.): Comparative Research in Adult Education: Global Perspectives on Participation, Sustainability and Digitalisation. Bielefeld: wbv. https://doi.org/10.3278/9783763971336 The volume presents research that emerges from the 9th International Adult Education Academy (2022), which brings together researchers, students and practitioners from around the world to share perspectives…
Feb 23 2023

Guest Sabbatical of Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Jean-Francois (Ohio University, US)
Since January 2023, Dr. Emmanuel Jean-Francois, Associate Professor at the Gladys W. and David H. Patton College of Education at Ohio University (US), is spending a research sabbatical at the Professorship for Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning. During this time, he researches and teaches at Helmut Schmidt University on various topics…
Feb 21 2022

Adult Education Academy 2022
Between Feb 7th and Feb 18th the team from the Professorship for Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning contributed again as teachers/moderators as well as participants to the Würzburg International Adult Education Academy (online). Over 80 master cycle and PhD students and practinioners from around the world studied and practiced comparative…