Potential of Internet-Based Qualification Systems for Teachers in Federal Education Systems: Experiences From the Field of Economic Education

Abstract

Making an internet-based system of qualification available for teachers at general education schools within a federally organized education system poses a variety of challenges. Based on findings of pedagogical professional research, further and advanced teacher training needs to impart specialist scientific competencies and––simultaneously connected with these competencies––subject-didactic ones as well as providing support for curricular implementation. There also needs to be a broad portfolio of modules leading to specialist and didactic qualifications that can take heterogeneous curricular requirements into account. Based on pedagogical as well as systematic requirements, the article formulates the essential cornerstones of such a qualification-based online training system, using the example of the Economic (General) Education. In addition, the necessary development steps for the future are outlined, especially regarding the use of adaptive teaching and learning methods.