Anschluss der vhs.ID an die digitale Vernetzungsinfrastruktur für die Bildung

Abstract

The German Adult Education Association (DVV) promotes the educational work of adult education centers in Germany. The DVV took an important step towards digital teaching in 2018 and developed the vhs.cloud as an adult education center’s internal digital learning and teaching platform. The associated identity management system called vhs.ID enables teachers and learners to access the vhs.cloud and further digital offerings by the adult education centers with a single account. In the EVA-NBP project, this digital ecosystem is to be expanded to include search and recommendation functionalities for courses offered by adult education centers. Since the adult education centers use various administration programs and different approaches, there is an inconsistent set of course metadata. The biggest challenge now is therefore, to develop a universal standard for metadata management that can be used for a recommendation algorithm and a course search. Keywording the courses according to a category standard represents a promising perspective that is to be tested together with selected adult education centers. In this article, the project staff of the DVV report on the current developments.