Digital technologies have enormous potential to boost adult learning in the workplace. EPALE thematic coordinator Andrew McCoshan has been working with EU Member States on the ET 2020 Working Group on Vocational Education and Training to examine the opportunities and challenges involved. This blog post looks at the opportunities, whilst an accompanying article focuses on the challenges.

Workshop 5 focused on research and innovative practice to support upskilling and earnings progression, highlighting the powerful benefits that adult learning can confer. To realise those benefits, particularly for disadvantaged groups, providers and learners need flexibility. Orienting funding and quality assurance systems towards the outcomes of provision, rather than just its inputs and outputs, might help allow that flexibility.

We are at the start of a revolution in how adults access and use learning opportunities in the workplace. In this article, the second of two blog posts on digital learning in the workplace, EPALE thematic coordinator Andrew McCoshan looks at the challenges it presents for practitioners in the sector.

Utilizarea multimedia în programele de învățare înseamnă mai mult decât utilizarea luminii sau a unui aparat foto. Trebuie să luați în considerare tipul de experiență pe care încercați să-l oferiți și modul în care multimedia va ajuta la îmbunătățire. Dacă obiectivul este realizarea unui conținut mai interesant și creșterea implicării membrilor, un material bine proiectat poate face acest lucru.

On 23 October 2019, EPALE UK and the Learning & Work Institute (European Agenda for Adult Learning) held a joint conference in London. I attended the workshop which presented the experience of Belfast in becoming a UNESCO Learning City with a specific focus on tackling inequalities, especially around health and wellbeing. Core to the work and future development is connectivity – linking globally, locally and across sectors/disciplines. This point was taken up by the second speaker who looked at the development needs of the adult learning workforce and how these should be linked to those of related disciplines.

Obrazovanje, usavršavanje i osposobljavanje radnika na radnom mestu redovna su i ustaljena praksa u firmama i institucijama koje posluju na teritoriji Bosne i Hercegovine. Brz tehničko-tehnološki razvoj, specifičnosti novih radnih mesta i nove poslovne tendencije zahtevaju nove veštine i znanja.

AMU i Nordjylland samarbejder internationalt for at dele og få viden fra andre lande. For Peter Thomsen, der er direktør for AMU Nordjylland, er det vigtigt, fordi det globale betyder mere.

Stefan Jovanovski, human resources manager at A1 Macedonia: Together with our employees we will spend 50 thousand hours learning

The culture of learning is individual approach towards the need to develop, build up and acquire new knowledge. Regardless of our age or position at work, every one of us is responsible for our own continuous learning, explains Jovanovski

Τρεις εμπειρογνώμονες που προέρχονται από τους τομείς της πρόβλεψης, της εκπροσώπησης των φοιτητών και της βιομηχανίας αναπτύσσουν τις απόψεις τους για το μέλλον της διά βίου μάθησης και τις δεξιότητες στο χώρο εργασίας.

Following the EPALE UK and L&WI (EAAL) Annual Conference 2019, we are now publishing the workshop and plenary session presentations in pdf format for users and delegates to enjoy. The presentations focus on individual nations as well as the UK as a whole, with workshops considering impications for policy and practice.  

Wie kann eine berufsbegleitende Professionalitätsentwicklung für Lehrende der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung aussehen, die überwiegend nebenberuflich sowie auf Honorarbasis tätig sind?

Leveraging multimedia in your learning programs is about more than just lights, camera, action. You need to consider the type of experience you’re trying to deliver and how a multimedia will enhance it.

The aim of the Adult Educators’ Unconference is to promote the debating culture in the community of adult education and to bring the topics relevant for the community into focus, in order to find solutions to them together.

Distance education, which had started by the letter teaching period and did not get the chance to reach very large audiences at the beginning, has started to be implemented almost entirely through Web technologies today.

Rozmowa Piotra Maczugi z Moniką Dawid Sawicką – ekspertką rynku pracy, coachem, facylitatorem, doradcą kariery o aspektach HR w edukacji i narzędziach pracy współczesnego coacha. Jak wygląda edukacja dorosłych w organizacjach i delegowanie pracowników na szkolenia? Dlaczego się uczymy? Jak wykorzystać kapitał ludzki i budować programy rozwojowe.

EPALE's thematic focus from October to December is on adult learning at the workplace