The German Adult Education Association (DVV), with the launch of vhs.cloud, has brought out the nation’s first digital age learning and working environment for continuing education.
DVV President Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer considers this to be a milestone on the path toward a digital adult education centre landscape: “The vhs.cloud is the right step to ensure that even in the digital age the adult education centre remains what it is today, namely the huge further education provider in Germany.”
The vhs.cloud offers the nationwide 900 adult education centres and their associations an online platform for networking, exchange, knowledge transfer and collaboration. Adult education centres can use the protected environment, for example, for digital learning opportunities and thus complement and expand their course programme. New digital learning formats are currently being developed by numerous adult education centres in more than 30 regional networks which are known as digicircles. Through access via a web browser in responsive design or via an app, vhs.cloud furnishes all the prerequisites for media- and location-independent use.
“The vhs.cloud is the heart of a modern infrastructure for digital learning in continuing education,” says DVV Director Ulrich Aengenvoort. “Adult education centres want to work against a digital divide in society and enable digital participation for all, especially for those who are not native to the digital age, like the elderly, but also those returning to professional life, the unemployed, or people with basic education needs.”
The Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association – DVV International – will also use the opportunities of vhs.cloud in the future for its work worldwide.
Further information: www.vhs.cloud
Text: DVV and DVV International