Design Thinking for German Vocational Schools? Discovering of an Innovative Approach by Testing in Teacher Education

Open Education Studies is an international peer-reviewed Open Access journal that publishes original and relevant articles in all fields of education research. It publishes both theoretical as well as empirical and methodological contributions to education research. Its coverage encompasses all forms of teaching and learning at all levels, from early childhood development to lifelong learning.

The journal provides the readers with free and permanent access to all content worldwide; and the authors with article promotion, long-time preservation, language assistance, no space constraints and immediate publication.

Open Special Issues:

Volume 3, 2021:

• Transforming Education in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond
  Lead Editor: Carla M.A. Pinto, School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal;
  Guest Editors: Jose Manuel Diego-Mantecón, University of Cantabria, Spain; Zsolt Lavicza, Johannes Kepler University, Austria; Noah Dana-Picard, Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel; Jorge Mendonça, School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal; Kristof Fenyvesi, Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä

• Latent Variable Models in Education
  Editors: Harsha Perera, Department of Educational Psychology and Higher Education, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), USA; Daniel Wright, Department of Educational Psychology and Higher Education, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), USA

Published Special Issues:
Volume 1, 2019:

• Design Thinking for Education
  Editor: Stefanie Panke, University of North Carolina, USA
• STEM Education with a Better Understanding
  Editor: Ján Gunčaga, Faculty of Education, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
• Innovative Teaching Methodologies
  Leading Editor: Carla M. A. Pinto, School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
  Guest Editors: Jorge Mendonça, Susana Nicola, School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal; Daniela Velichová, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia

• Stress, Distress and Drop-out Amongst Higher Education Students
  Guest Editor: Prof. Wilfried Admiraal, Director, Chair in Teaching and Teacher Education, Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching, Leiden University, the Netherlands

• Active Methods in Teaching and Learning Mathematics and Informatics in Science, Technology, Engineering and Arts
  Editors: Ján Gunčaga, Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Education, Slovakia; Péter Körtesi, University of Miskolc, Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Hungary; Elena Hadzieva, University of Information Science and Technologies “St. Paul the Apostle – Ohrid”, Faculty of Information Systems, Visualization, Multimedia and Animation, Macedonia

• New Trends in STEM Education of the 21st Century
  Leading Editor: Carla M. A. Pinto, School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
  Guest Editors: Ken Brown, Letterkenny Institute of Technology in Ireland; Viola Larionova, Ural Federal University, Russia; Deolinda Rasteiro, Polytechnic of Coimbra, Portugal

• Online Networked Learning Ecologies and Their Implications in Theory and Practice
  Guest Editor: Aras Bozkurt, Ph.D., Anadolu University, Open Education Faculty, Eskişehir, Turkey
  

The journal’s scope includes, but is not limited to the following areas of research:

• Educational psychology
• Sociology of education
• Educational philosophy
• Economics of education
• Pedagogy

• Educational policy
• Educational leadership
• Higher education
• Early childhood education
• K12 education
• Vocational and workforce education
• Teacher and trainer education
• Faculty development

• Health education
• STEM education

• Special education
• Information literacy education
• Teaching and learning with emerging technologies
• Distance and e-learning
• Games and simulations
• Learning Design
• Assessment and evaluation