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Prof. Dr. Matthias Rohs
Professor of Adult Education
Scientific Director of the Institute for Technology and Work ITA
Board member of the Division Adult Education of the DGfE
Scientific head of the study programmes Adult Education, Human Resources Development and Management of Digital Educational Processes
Curriculum Vitae
- 2021/2022 Visiting Professor at the Institute of Educational Sciences at University of Graz, Austria
- since 2021 Member of the Board of the Adult Education Division of the German Educational Research Association (GERA)
- since 2020 Scientific Director of the Institute for Technology and Work (Institut für Technologie und Arbeit – ITA), Kaiserslautern
- since 2019 Professor of Adult Education at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
- 2019 Scientific Director of the Distance and Independent Studies Center (DISC) at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
- 2017 - 2019 Deputy Scientific Director of the Distance and Independent Studies Center (DISC) at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
- 2017 - 2019 Head of the Department "Development and Transfer" of the Distance and Independent Studies Center (DISC) at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
- 2013 - 2019 Assistant Professor for Adult Education with a focus on distance learning and e-learning at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern (2013-2016 in cooperation with the German Institute for Adult Education – Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning, Bonn)
- Deputy Head of Training Concepts, Strategy, Quality for Vocational Education and Training, Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn
- Research assistant at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Institute for Information Systems, Basel (CH)
- Research assistant at the University of Zurich, E-Learning Center
- Research assistant at Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Hamburg, doctorate (Dr. phil.)
- Research assistant at the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering (ISST), Berlin
- Study of educational science, sociology and psychology at Freie Universität Berlin
Research Focus
- Adult education and digital media
- Informal and self-directed learning
- Continuing vocational training and human resource development
- Professionalisation in adult education and training
- Academic further education
Current Publications
Forthcoming
Arnold, R. & Rohs, M. (accepted), Fernstudium, In R. Arnold, E. Nuissl & J. Schrader (Eds.), Wörterbuch Erwachsenenbildung. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt
Rohs, M. (accepted), Wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung, In R. Arnold, E. Nuissl & J. Schrader (Eds.), Wörterbuch Erwachsenenbildung. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt
Rohs, M. (accepted), Informelle Bildung, In R. Arnold, E. Nuissl & J. Schrader (Eds.), Wörterbuch Erwachsenenbildung. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt
Rohs, M. (accepted), Digitales Lernen, In R. Arnold, E. Nuissl & J. Schrader (Eds.), Wörterbuch Erwachsenenbildung. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt
2022
Rohs, M., & Bernhardson-Laros, N. (2022). Digitalisierung als ethische Herausforderung für die Erwachsenenbildung. Ein Anstoß für die Entwicklung einer Bereichsethik aus Sicht der Erwachsenenbildungsforschung. erwachenenbildung.at, 44/45, 1-10. Online
Lacher, S., Fliegener, L. & Rohs, M. (2022). Geringqualifizierte. Eine relative Perspektive. Beiträge zur Erwachsenenbildung (11). Technische Universität Kaiserslautern. Online
Rohs, M. & Gruber, E. (Hrsg.) (2022). Digitalisierung in der Erwachsenenbildung in Österreich. Beiträge zur Erwachsenenbildung (12), Technische Universität Kaiserslautern. Online
Weber, H., Elsner, A., Wolf, D., Rohs, M., & Turner-Cmuchal, M. (2022). Inclusive Digital Education. Odense, Denmark: European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education. Online
2021
Bernhard-Skala, C., Bolten-Bühler, R., Koller, J., Rohs, M., & Wahl, J. (Eds.). (2021). Erwachsenenpädagogische Digitalisierungsforschung. Impulse – Befunde – Perspektiven. Bielefeld: wbv.
Bernhard-Skala, C., Bolten-Bühler, R., Koller, J., Rohs, M., & Wahl, J. (2021). Impuls für eine erwachsenenpädagogische Digitalisierungsforschung. In C. Bernhard-Skala, R. Bolten-Bühler, J. Koller, M. Rohs & J. Wahl (Eds.), Erwachsenenpädagogische Digitalisierungsforschung. Impulse – Befunde – Perspektiven (pp. 19-36). Bielefeld: wbv.
Morris, T. H., & Rohs, M. (2021). The potential for digital technology to support self-directed learning in formal education of children: a scoping review. Interactive Learning Environments, 1-14. doi: 10.1080/10494820.2020.1870501
Morris, T., & Rohs, M. (2021), Digitization Bolstering Self-Directed Learning for Information Literate Adults – a Systematic Review. Computers and Education Open, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeo.2021.100048
Rohs, M., König, P., Kohl, J., & Hellriegel, J. (2021). Digitalisierung als Gegenstand von Kursangeboten – Eine Längsschnittuntersuchung der vh Ulm. In C. Bernhard-Skala, R. Bolten-Bühler, J. Koller, M. Rohs & J. Wahl (Eds.), Erwachsenenpädagogische Digitalisierungsforschung (pp. 149-169). Bielefeld: wbv.
All publications are listed here
Editorials
Book series "Erwachsenenbildung und lebensbegleitendes Lernen", W. Bertelsmann Verlag
Editors: Prof. Dr. Reiner Brödel (University Münster), Prof. Dr. Matthias Rohs (Technische Universität Kaiserslautern), Prof. Dr. Sabine Schmidt-Lauff (Helmut-Schmidt University Hamburg), Prof. Dr. Julia Schütz (FernUniversität Hagen)
Further information on the book series can be found here
Research reports "Beiträge zur Erwachsenenbildung", Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Editor: Prof. Dr. Matthias Rohs (Technische Universität Kaiserslautern)
Further information on the research reports series can be found here
Current Presentations
Digitalisation as a dilemma of (adult)education. Reflections on innovation, criticism and resistance, Graz, 13.01.2022
Digitalisation as a "wicket problem" Area ethics (Bereichsethik) based boundaries in adult and continuing education, Congress of the German Society for Educational Science, 14.03.2022 (together with Nils Bernhardsson-Laros).
Learning | Form | Transition - Informal and non-formal learning under the conditions of digitality, German Youth Institute (DJI), 04.05. 2022
Adult Education Centres in the Pandemic , Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Volkshochschulen in Berlin, 12.05.2022
The impact of digitalisation on further training for the low-skilled, Christliches Jugenddorfwerk Deutschlands (CJD), Wörth, 23.06.2022
Contact

Prof. Dr. Matthias Rohs
TU Kaiserslautern
Faculty of Social Science
Department of Educational Science
Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße
Bld. 57, room 471
67663 Kaiserslautern
Tel.: 0631-205-3697
Fax: 0631-205-2722
E-Mail: Matthias.Rohs[at]sowi.uni-kl.de
VC: Zoom
Office hours
Wednesday: 08-10 a.m.
Appointment by mail (presence or online)
Exams
Information and registration here