Alīna is 28 years old and works at the public library in Valmiera, Latvia. She sees a lot of potential for online courses and she will continue to make use of them when "back to normal”.
This is a dual-narrative story: Juhani Pörtfors 68 and Matti Sarviranta 70+. They are volunteer workers, peer tutors and they are trained to work as Digi-guides for seniors.
Artificial intelligence is a megatrend, and understanding it will be part of adults’ basic skills in a near future. This is why adult education offering on this topic should be increased. At the core of this new civic skill is the ability to watch the emergence of artificial intelligence with a cool analytical approach.
Let's have a look at a list of possible specialist areas that can play an important role in the future of adult education.
Here’s the first of a series of resource kits, designed to support the work of educators in the field of adult learning.
As a response to the COVID-19 public health emergency, EPALE has put together a comprehensive strategy to help the community.
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Alīna is 28 years old and works at the public library in Valmiera, Latvia. She obtained a Master’s degree in Library Science and Information and has been working in universities and national and public libraries for the past 6 years. She only recently started teaching adults, specifically librarians, although she has been teaching adult users individually for years.
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People have read books for thousands of years, while e-books have been around only for the past few decades. Nevertheless, the theory that the need for physical books will disappear due to the march of e-books still occasionally emerges. From the point of view of libraries, this causes confusion.
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This is a dual-narrative story: Juhani Pörtfors 68 and Matti Sarviranta 70+.
They are volunteer workers, digi-guides in a referee association. Their backgrounds are quite different; Juhani Pörtfors is an adult educator and Matti Sarviranta is an engineer. They are peer tutors and they are trained to work as Digi-guides.
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Artificial intelligence is a megatrend, and understanding it will be part of adults’ basic skills in a near future. This is why adult education offering on this topic should be increased. At the core of this new civic skill is the ability to watch the emergence of artificial intelligence with a cool analytical approach.
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Milica Buha has been working as a librarian at the Belgrade City Library for 20 years. The Coronavirus pandemic has distracted her and her colleagues from their activities, but they have not given up. They have tried to make these activities available online. Let's find out more about their “Wiki Senior” project!
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All seniors did not familiarize with modern information and communication tools in their working lives. But now, since digital competence is strongly linked to wider well-being and autonomy, it is time for them to learn. Therefore, there is a need for low-threshold, close to home, meaningful opportunities to learn digital skills.
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Colleagues at museums all over the world have been mainly closed for a number of months now. Besides the problems and challenges with employment and financing that comes from that museums also are estranged when not meeting the public. After all, it is for the people that museums exist.
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Senior citizens can no longer just rely on digital experts at their work place, but have to learn to adopt new technologies by themselves. It is the duty of society to offer systematic and professional digital training based on senior pedagogy in order to facilitate daily life, writes Pirkko Ruuskanen-Parrukoski.
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As for my experience, all the learning at this time is done via digital environments. The importance of digital competencies and skills is more important than ever. One, as an adult learning provider, can do all the thinkable and unthinkable preparations for a course, but surprises still emerge. It is impossible to be responsible for the digital competencies of the participators nor the teachers.
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The Open University’s free learning platform OpenLearn has a wide range of resources that can be learned at your own pace. The Open Learning Champions guide is a useful resource if you’re supporting someone who is new to online learning.
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With the education recess at schools as a part of the coronavirus measures, EBA became the center of distance education in Turkey and ranked first among global education platforms in April. Announcing digital data concerning distance education between March 23 and April 30, 2020, Director General of Innovations and Education Technologies Anıl Yılmaz stated that EBA reinforced its position among education platforms in the world.
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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery, Mark Van Doren
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The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) – the workforce development body for the Further Education (FE) and Training sector funded by the UK Government – has run a series of free, online webinars to help colleagues across the sector who are working remotely to support students based at home. These webinars contain a host of useful information, tips and advice, they are recorded and are available for practitioners to use whenever convenient.
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Join Campaign for Learning from May 18-24 to celebrate lifelong learning at work and build learning cultures everywhere! It's free to register for this event and access online resources.
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Finland will make the Elements of AI online course available to EU citizens in 2020–2021. The objective is to train one per cent of EU citizens in the basics of artificial intelligence, thereby strengthening digital competence within the EU.
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The Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition encourages National Coalitions and their members to identify and share good practices in meeting the growing demand for digital skills.
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Virtual mobility has become a valuable way of enabling international academic experiences in situations when we cannot physically travel to an organisation in a different country. The Open Virtual Mobility project (OpenVM) have developed MOOCs to support virtual mobility, especially in context of open education. Find out more about virtual mobility and how you can use the MOOCs.
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We’re excited for you to join us on 27 May for a discussion on EPALE’s current thematic focus of "Digital skills as a way of accessing learning opportunities". You don't have to wait until the end of May to start this discussion though!
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Turkey began airing broadcast school lessons on Monday as part of distance learning measures to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus.
National Education Minister Ziya Selcuk taught the first class to millions of students at 09.00 a.m. local time (0600GMT).
First addressing the parents, Selcuk said the world was going through a challenging process due to the COVID-19 pandemic and that schools were closed for a while with the launch of distance education.
We regret that we have to postpone our International EJERCongress2020, but the health and wellbeing of our participants is our number one priority. After a careful review of the current pandemic situation, we have decided to move EJERCongress2020 from its originally scheduled in-person experience at Anadolu University to a fully virtual one. We are going to hold the congress again in collaboration with the Eurasian Journal of Educational Research (EJER) and Eskişehir Anadolu University between 10 -12 September 2020.
Conect International poziva sve zainteresovane na vebinar ,,Digitalni omladinski rad - prilike i izazovi" ("“Digital Youth Work: Opportunities and Challenges”). Cilje vebinara je podrška omladinskim organizacijama širom Evrope, sa naglaskom na potrebi da se pomogne omladinskim organizacijama u prilagođavanju digitalizaciji, da se podrži njihov rad u online sferi, kao i da se isti promoviše.
Vebinar će se održati 12.6.2020. sa početkom u 18h, a rok za prijavu je 5.6.2020.
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This webinar will provide ideas, self-help tips and sustainable ways on how educators can carry out their practices online. A number of technological tools and their pedagogical merits will be discussed, and a critique of how one can enact meaningful learning experiences via technology will be presented.
Moderator: Michelle Attard Tonna
Guest speakers: Joseph Vancell and Patrick Camilleri
During this webinar participants will discuss the rapid transition towards remote learning in primary education during the COVID 19 era. Participants will also have the opportunity to discuss the role of remote learning in future scenarios and analyse the effect of the current situation in future teacher training programmes. Common trends in remote learning observed since the closure of primary schools will also be discussed. Register: https://bit.ly/2z7rZZT
In the last few years, people's use of various digital technology has increased significantly both at home and in the work place. In this context, information and communication technologies offer new semantic spaces and action boundaries to experiment with different approaches for alternative and inclusive learning: e-books, virtual museums, serious game, immersive virtual realities, represent some of the possible digital environments in which to place innovative learning methods.
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The INDEx Survey is the result of a national strategy in digital technology started with the National Strategy for Higher Education to 2030 and consecutive set up of t
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AHEAD has released a survey report that aims to shine a light on the difficulties that practitioners are experiencing in continuing to deliver their support and their programmes more generally.
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This note provides guidance on using educational television programming as a form of remote learning to respond to school closures. It
is corroborated by more than 40 examples of how countries are currently using television in response to COVID-19.
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This new home learning platform provides free, nationally accredited online training courses. It has been designed to support the unemployed as well as furloughed workers looking to upskill, or even retrain during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Created by the Department for Education, The Skills Toolkit is a new online learning platform to help boost skills while people are staying home during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is made up of free online courses, tools, and resources to help improve digital and numeracy skills.
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The #EPALE webinar was facilitated by Dr Vincent Caruana on 15 May 2020 as part of the #EPALE webinar series from 11 - 15 May 2020.
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The #EPALE webinar was facilitated by Mr James Callus on 14 May 2020 as part of the #EPALE webinar series from 11 - 15 May 2020.
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This #EPALE webinar was faciliated by Dr Maria Cutajar. She discusses teaching mediated by digital technologies. The presentation looks at 5 different ways of teaching that emerged from research carried out before the current public health crisis and the dimensions of awareness critically shaping them.
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Time pressures often necessitate the use of more efficient exam tools, such as electronic exams (e-exams), instead of traditional paper exams. However, teachers may face challenges when introducing e-exams in a higher education context. This paper describes what kinds of challenges teachers may face when introducing e-exams, based on experiences in Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) where e-exams have been used since 2012.
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As part of our April-June 2020 focus on Digital skills as a way of accessing learning opportunities, EPALE is organising an online discussion.