Die lernergebnisorientierte Beschreibung der wba-Curricula. Ein Praxisbericht aus der Weiterbildungsakademie

The Austrian Academy of Continuing Education (Weiterbildungsakademie in German - wba) provides recognition and certification procedures for adult educators. This article reports on experiences and insights in connection with the learner outcome-oriented description of the wba curricula. The reorganisation of the curricula provoked intensive discussion and reflection. Detailed descriptions were necessary to show the potential for developing of the previous curricula. The orientation towards learner outcomes therefore contributed to a concretisation and operationalisation of the wba curricula. The article describes this process and compares the old curriculum with the new. It is thus an example of how curricula or educational offerings for adult education can already be adapted to the National Qualifications Framework now - before the NQF has even been adopted for the non-formal educational system - in view of a later classification of qualifications into the NQF.