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can potentially better the elderly performance when the others should be applied with caution.Preferred modes and modalities of multimedia presentations can be especially influential forelderly and can enhance or hinder multimedia principles effects. Final part discusses a designframework adjusted to the elderly needs and explores the pathways for future research.Workplace changes and workplace learning: Advantages of an educational micro perspectiveHans Gruber, Institute for Educational Science, GermanyJohannes Bauer, Institute for Educational Science, GermanyThis poster gives an overview about a theoretical analysis of two perspectives, a macro and amicro perspective, on changes in the workplace in relation to workplace learning and professionaldevelopment. It critically evaluates what kind of phenomena both perspectives can account for.Research from a macro perspective focuses on changes in economy or on organisational change. Ithelps to explore the role of lifelong learning and workplace learning in society as well as to definewhich competences are required in different professions. Research from a micro perspectivefocuses on individual reactions to changes in one’s own workplace. It helps to explain howchanges in daily work affect knowledge and skills on individual or group level. It is argued that themicro perspectives is advantageous if educational goals are pursued which aim at fosteringworkplace learning and competence development. Examples for empirical investigations areprovided which illustrate the potential of a micro perspective on workplace changes and workplacelearning.Moral commitment, profit or a question of feasibility: Economics students’ conceptions of‘responsibility’Cecilia Lundholm, Dep. of Education, Stockholm University, SwedenAs part of a current research project on undergraduate students’ learning about economy andenvironment, this paper explores economics students’ reasoning about ‘responsibility’ ineducation. In higher education, the amount of economics courses including environmental issuesand ethics is constantly increasing. However, recent reviews in the field of environmentaleducation research have made clear that insufficient attention has been paid to students’conceptions and learning in the realm of social science, as opposed to natural science. In the lightof this situation, this paper report findings from a study on students’ reasoning about‘responsibility’ concerning environmental and social aspects in business. The purpose of the paperis to describe the students’ different conceptions and ways of reasoning about these issues,focussing specially on the moral views on ‘responsibility’. The study that informs this paper wasundertaken with 20 students at a course on ‘Sustainable management’ at the Stockholm School ofBusiness. Questions for discussion were designed, including economical key concepts and issuesrelated to environmental aspects of relevance to the business world. The analysis drew on conceptsfrom research on students’ interpretations of learning activities, in particular the distinctionbetween the task as presented by the teacher and the problem (or ‘project’) as understood by anindividual student. Drawing on data, the paper will present the outcomes in terms of the students’conceptions of business and the different ways ‘responsibility’ is perceived, for example, as aconflict of moral obligations and profit and feasibility. This paper is regarded as a contribution tothe development of environmental education as a research-informed practice, focussing speciallyon the under-researched domain of the social sciences and environmental education.Instruction monitoring – Implementation of new curricula within a video-based quality circleHolger Gärtner, Free University Berlin, Germany– 441 –