Start of the joint project 'WÖRLD'

The joint project 'WÖRLD - Wirtschaftspädagogik und Ökonomische Bildung: Lehrkräftebildung und Unterricht Digital' (duration 06/23 - 12/25; FKZ: 01JA23S02A), funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, started on 01.06.2023 under the direction of Prof. Dr. Jens Klusmeyer (Department of Business Education with a focus on Vocational Teaching and Learning). The project deals with questions about the design and effects of digitization-related teacher training and continuing education in the business and economics domain and at the same time addresses the skills developed by teachers for planning and designing digital and hybrid lessons. The aim is to ensure and evaluate an evidence-based transfer of digital and hybrid teaching and learning opportunities from the participating teacher training institutions. The project is being funded with around 5.2 million euros.

In total, the project network consists of 14 sub-projects from 16 professorships in seven federal states, making it the largest research consortium on this topic in Germany. WÖRLD is embedded in the 'Competence Center for Digital and Digitally Supported Teaching in Schools and Further Education in Languages, Social Sciences and Economics', which in turn is part of the competence network lernen:digital.

In addition to project management, Prof. Dr. Jens Klusmeyer's department is responsible for the sub-project 'BRANCHES - Teacher training and interactive storytelling in cross-phase co-creation of branched scenarios', which playfully demonstrates the decision-making options in operational work and training situations. In addition, 'DiWiBe - Understanding and teaching the digitalization of economic and commercial occupational fields' by Prof. Dr. Michael Goller (Department of Vocational and Business Education; in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Manuel Förster from the Technical University of Munich) is another sub-project based at the Institute of Vocational Education and Training.

The technical and digitization-related expertise of the participating partners and cooperation partners will be bundled in the 'WÖRLD House'. As a strategically active network of actors in teacher training, this will bring together the project's contributions to the transfer and evaluation of digitization-related teacher training courses.