Informal learning
Priority areas for the next waves of knowledge and innovation communities. Exploration of critical success factors, alternative options and characteristics for design
In support of the Strategic Innovation Agenda of the EIT this brief proposes potential priority areas for future waves of Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs), using a two level approach. Two general potential priority areas (level 1) are proposed: sustainability through integrated design, production and consumption; and services through ICT. These general proposals are then more closely aligned with possible areas of application (level 2), leading to seven more specific proposals for priority areas. The proposals are based on a Web 2.0 consultation of the research communities in Europe and beyond, the results of which were refined in an expert workshop. This brief also sets out the critical success factors that were applied for the formulation of the priority areas proposed, as well as some characteristics for their design.
Country reports on the Action Plan on Adult Learning
The Action Plan on Adult Learning "It is always a good time to learn" (2008-2010) provided for the first time a set of common priorities to be encouraged in the adult learning sector, introduced the sector to the Open Method of Coordination and thus initiated intensified European cooperation between its diverse actors.
Those country report have been carried out, on behalf of the European Commission, by GHK in cooperation with Research voor Beleid. on the basis of country-experts' analysis of existing national literature and the Confintea IV-report and were used as background reports in the Final Conference on Adult Learning Action Plan in Budapest, 7-9 March 2011.
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iEducate Final Conference at Warwick University, Coventry & Virtual Conference
On 20th September 2011 the iEducate Team presents the tools and resources that were developed during the project lifetime. Furthermore recent developments and technologies that will shape the future of vocational education will be introduced during several break-out session.
On 21st September 2011 a virtual conference will take place at the virtual training island in Second Life for those unable to attend in person on the 20th.
See attached document for details and registration.
iEducate demonstrates how technology can assist vocational education and training professionals across Europe to bridge the technology gap with learners.
As well as seeing the range of tools and resources created as part of the project, you will also find out how technology is helping to shape the future of vocational education across Europe through a range of breakout sessions (see registration form for more details on breakout session topics).
iEducate - Final Conference at Warwick University, Coventry and Virtual Conference in Second Life
On 20th September 2011 the iEducate Team presents the tools and resources that were developed during the project lifetime. Furthermore recent developments and technologies that will shape the future of vocational education will be introduced during several break-out session.
On 21st September 2011 a virtual conference will take place at the virtual training island in Second Life for those unable to attend in person on the 20th.
See www.ieducate.eu for details and registration.
iEducate demonstrates how technology can assist vocational education and training professionals across Europe to bridge the technology gap with learners. As well as seeing the range of tools and resources created as part of the project, you will also find out how technology is helping to shape the future of vocational education across Europe through a range of breakout sessions (see registration form for more details).
Sessions include:
Virtual Worlds for Vocational Education
e-Learning goes Social
Teaching Culture & Heritage with technology
Enabling people with Disabilities
So, what’s coming next? (Emerging Technologies)
Creating and using Media to enhance learning
Technology tools for teaching Enterprise
Young people with fewer opportunities learning languages informally: perceptions and uses of ICT and social media
We hope that this study will be of interest to language teachers, teacher trainers and also to individuals working with younger people with fewer opportunities in youth centres and schools, as it sheds light on how this population use and practice different languages with the use of social media and through other informal means. We also attempt to provide insights on how informal ICT-supported language learning can ease the passage to formal language learning
Next Generation Teaching, Education and Learning for Life
NEXT-TELL is an Integrated Project (IP) in the ICT challenge of the 7th framework programme of the EC; its main objective is to provide, through research and development, computational and methodological support to teachers and students
To bring about our vision of 21st Century classroom learning, NEXT-TELL will work towards these main objectives:
- Articulate a conceptual framework for designing and implementing methods that can be used to formatively assess ICT-enhanced learning and to negotiate the assessment process amongst stakeholders.
- Provide resources and ICT support for teachers and students to develop learning activities and appraisal methods appropriate for 21st Century learning based on this conceptual framework.
- Provide IT support in the classroom so that teachers and students have available nuanced information about students’ learning when it is needed and in a format that is supportive of decision making, thus optimizing levels of stimulation, challenge, and feedback.
- Provide IT support for making students’ activities in informal learning places – and in general in the “learning ecology” outside of school – part of ‘accountable work’, thus building on students’ interests, fostering their identity development and supporting their social networks.
- Foster in-service teachers’ professional development by providing new methods and tools for learning from students’ learning and for learning from peers’ teaching.
- Increase a school’s capacity for data-driven decision making by means of leadership development, including ICT support for the strategic planning of teachers’ professional development.
NEXT-TELL’s formost goal is to provide an innovation platform, used by teachers to continuously and collaboratively innovate ICT-enhanced formative classroom assessment. To achieve this, NEXT-TELL provides method and tool support on three levels:
- For the teacher (and for students) in the class, and for homework, to help with pedagogical decision making (feedback, instructional planning);
- For groups of teachers conducting inquiries into students’ learning with the aim to improve pedagogy and use of ICT in their teaching;
- For principals and head teachers to strategically align ICT with pedagogical goals of their school.
Hole in the Wall experience
Audio-Lingua
A collaborative bank of authentic audio resources, recorded by native speakers, for a freely pedagogical or personal use to train oral comprehension. Audio resources can be downloaded or listened online, and any person who feels interested may contribute sending personal audio documents by filling in the form.