Dr Wolfgang Müskens
Dr Wolfgang Müskens
Profiles
PD Dr Wolfgang Müskens has been a researcher at the Institute of Education at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg since 2001.
Wolfgang Müskens studied psychology at the Universities of Düsseldorf and Koblenz-Landau. He gained his doctorate in 2001 in the field of personality research.
Since then, he has worked at Faculty I (Education and Social Sciences) at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, and since 2018 also at the Centre for Open Education Research (COER). There he is involved in several projects on the digitalisation of teaching and learning at universities.
Since 2013, Dr Müskens has headed the Competence Centre for Credit Transfer, which is involved in numerous research and development projects on the transfer of vocational competences to university degree programmes. Since 2017, he has been the academic head of the PLAR Service (Prior Learning and Recognition) at the University of Oldenburg.
In 2019, he completed his habilitation in educational science with a focus on "Lifelong Learning / Continuing Education".
His research and work focus on the design of open educational programmes, the assessment and modelling of competences and the quality assurance of OER (Open Educational Resources). He is the (co-)author of numerous psychometric test and measurement instruments.
Publications
Mühlhaus, J., Müskens, W., & Bilda, K. (2019). Credit transfer options in a continuing education master's programme for speech and language therapists with professional experience. In J. Siegmüller & S. Winny (Eds.), Professionalisation through academisation - higher education in the academic appointments (pp.57-72). Hamburg: Kovac.
Müskens, W. & Eilers-Schoof, A. (2019). The importance of internal university networking in the recognition of academic appointments using the example of the PLARnet project at the University of Oldenburg. In N. Sturm (Ed.), Contested recognition - competences acquired outside higher education in the academic space (pp. 175-199). Wiesbaden: SpringerVS.
Hanft, A. & Müskens, W. (2019). Recognition and accreditation of academic qualifications and competences in higher education. In B. Hemkes, K. Wilbers, M. Heister (Eds.), Permeability between vocational education and training and higher education (pp. 184-198). Bonn: BiBB. Retrieved on 05.03.2019 from https://www.bibb.de/veroeffentlichungen/de/publication/download/9753
Müskens, W. (2020). The design of permeable educational programmes through the crediting of academic appointments to university degree programmes. Retrieved on 25/02/2020 from uol.de/fileadmin/anrechnungsprojekte/Bilder/ 03_Dateien/Durchlaessigkeit_durch_Anrechnung.pdf