Im Fokus: Öffnung der Hochschulen für neue Zielgruppen

Opening higher education for new target groups is regarded as an important political and social goal. Based on central political frameworks the following article analyses, which new target groups are addressed in higher education institutions and which specific demands they have for the organization and structuring of teaching and learning. In the focus of the analysis are studies from higher education research and instructional design. The perspectives of these two in the past almost separated disciplines seem to be coming closer together by focusing more and more on the same questions: how to organize teaching and learning in an environment of heterogeneous students. Both disciplines get impulses from adult education and continuing education research, which traditionally focus more on target groups and their specific needs.