Future Skills in Education: Knowledge Management, AI and Sustainability as Key Factors in Competence-Oriented Education (Sustainable Management, Wertschöpfung und Effizienz)

This book identifies central key factors for future-oriented teaching in Higher Education to support the task of ensuring the knowledge transfer for sustainable and competence-oriented employability to the future workforce. Through an innovative approach using machine-learning algorithms that employ the universities’ own and extern databases as knowledge base, new perspectives for the development of competence-oriented curricula and study programmes in Higher Education are shown. Preface Summary Rezumat Introduction Contents List of Abbreviations and Acronyms List of Figures List of Tables 1 Current approaches to the transposition of sustainability in Higher Education Institutions 1.1 Adaptation of Sustainability Issues in Higher Education 1.1.1 Origins of Sustainability and Goals for Sustainable Development 1.1.2 Goals of Higher Education 1.1.3 Quality of Education 1.1.4 Education for Sustainable Development 1.2 Transition from Education for Sustainable Development to Sustainable Education 1.2.1 Heterogeneity Discourse in Higher Education 1.2.2 Transformative University and the Influence of Universities on Society 1.2.3 Sustainable Universities 2 Current Approaches to Employability Transfer In Higher Education 2.1 Employability Transfer In Higher Education Institutions 2.1.1 Employability as a Result of Educational Processes 2.1.2 Requirement Analysis Within a Didactic Framework Concept for Employability Skills Transfer at Higher Education Institutions 2.2 System Theory and Cybernetics as Theoretical Framework for Knowledge and Skills Transfer in Higher Education 2.2.1 Circular Causality In Systems Theory 2.2.2 Autopoiesis in Cybernetic Systems as a Framework for Sustainable Processes in Economic Systems and Organizational Learning 3 Trends and Developments in Higher Education in the Context of Knowledge Society With Focus on the Field of Business Economic Studies 3.1 Emerging Prospects in Higher Education 3.1.1 Trends and Challenges of Knowledge Society and Digital Transformation 3.1.2 Integrating Trends in Universities’ Curricula 3.2 Interdisciplinary Approaches and Trends in Business Economics 3.2.1 Identification of Management Trends Through Management Fashion Theory 3.2.2 New Perspectives in Education Using Large Scale Databases and Machine Learning 4 Research on Applications, Prerequisites and Measures for the Implementation of Sustainability at Higher Education Institutions 4.1 Investigating the Application of Sustainability Concepts in Higher Education Institutions 4.1.1 Widely Differing Approaches to What Constitutes a Sustainable University 4.1.2 Objectives and Research Methodology of the Study on Sustainable Universities Using Universities in German-speaking Countries as an Example 4.1.3 Results Concerning Sustainability Concepts by the Example of Selected Best Practice Universities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland 4.2 Assessing Successful Quality Management as Prerequisite for Sustainable Conduct in Higher Education 4.2.1 Quality Management at Universities as a Basic Prerequisite for Sustainable Conduct 4.2.2 Objectives and Methodology of the Study on Internal and External Quality Assurance at the Example of German Private Universities 4.2.3 Resulting Category System for Internal and External Quality Assurance at Higher Education Institutions 4.2.4 Results Concerning the Involvement of Students and Transparency in Quality Management at Example of the Universities Researched 4.3 Proposing the Implementation of a Continuous Improvement Process and the Transfer of Appropriate Measurement Concepts to the Higher Education Sector 4.3.1 Gap Between Supply and Demand for Employability 4.3.2 Objectives and Methodology for Modeling a Continually Improvement Process Within the Scope of Employability Transfer at Universities 4.3.3 Results Concerning a Holistic Approach to the Measurability of Employability 5 Research on the Identification and Evaluation of Market- and Future-oriented Business Knowledge and Skills 5.1 Identifying Demand-driven Employability Skills Through Database Assessment 5.1.1 Market’s Needs for Suitable Skills 5.1.2 Objectives and Methodology of the Identification of Demand-driven Employability Skills 5.1.3 Results Regarding the Application of the Concept for the Identification of Demand-driven Employability Skills Using the Romanian Outsourcing Industry as an Example 5.2 Evaluating Students’ Perception of Important Business-related Topics at Universities 5.2.1 Universities as Providers of Transformative Knowledge 5.2.2 Objectives and Methodology of the Study on Students’ Perception and Knowledge of Future-oriented Concepts 5.2.3 Results Concerning the Surveyed Students’ Knowledge About Transformative Concepts at the Example of Sustainability and Bioeconomy 5.2.4 Results on the Students’ Perception of Universities’ Relevancy as Transformative Knowledge Educators at the Example of Sustainability and Bioeconomy 5.3 Analyzing Important Current Management Topics Based on the Research Subjects of Final Theses at Universities of Economics and Business Administration 5.3.1 Students’ Central Role as Knowledge Providers 5.3.2 Objectives and Methodology of the Identification of Suitability of Final Theses’ Titles as Corpus for Content Analysis 5.3.3 Results Concerning the Identification of Final Theses’ Titles as a Suitable Corpus for Management Trends Lifecycle Analysis by the Exemplary Deduction of Two Lifecycles and Their Statistical Comparison 6 The Improvement of Sustainable Employability Transfer in Higher Education Institutions Using Large Scale Data Bases and Machine Learning 6.1 Autopoiesis as an option to determine the content of teaching by developing future management topics using machine learning 6.2 Development of a sustainable employability transfer model in academic business education Conclusion Bibliography