lifelong learning
Learning and Quality (LINQ) 2012 - submission deadline extended
The paper submission deadline has been extended until August 10, 2012.
Overview of the important dates:
Paper submission deadline:
July 10, 2012August 10, 2012Notification of acceptance: August 20, 2012
Deadline for author registration: September 7, 2012
Camera-Ready copy due: September 7, 2012
Deadline for visitor registration: September 20, 2012
Conference program: October 23, 2012
Access the Conference Paper Template on the conference home page.
eLearning Papers 29 on Learning and Active Ageing is out!
This issue of eLearning Papers explores what teaching methods and learning environments are being used effectively to promote lifelong learning among older people. Enrichment and skill building educational programmes for older people must be continuously supported, promoted and facilitated as part of the active ageing process.
The issue, that has been guest edited by Anne-Sophie Parent, Secretary General, AGE Platform Europe and Tapio Koskinen, www.elearningpapers.eu, Director of the Editorial Board, includes the following articles:
In Depth articles
Checklist for a Didactically Sound Design of eLearning Content
Key words: checklist, instructional design, didactic, formative evaluation, feedback
By Cornelia Schoor Researcher (University of Bamberg, Germany) and Hermann Körndle Professur für die Psychologie des Lehrens und Lernens, TU Dresden
The Ageing Brain: Neuroplasticity and Lifelong Learning
Key words: neuroscience, lifelong learning, adult education
By Eleonora Guglielman, PhD, University Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
The Virtuous Circle of Use, Attitude, Experience and Digital Inclusion
Key words: knowledge society, ICT skill acquisition, attitude, aptitude
By Roger Esteller-Curto and Raul Marín, Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Jaume I Uiversity. Spain and Pilar Escuder-Mollon, Senior Citiziens’ University. Jaume I University. Spain
From the Field articles
eLearning and Social Networking in Mentoring Processes to Support Active Ageing
Keywords: intergenerational dialogue, digital inclusion, employability, training
By Ileana Hamburg, Institute for Work and Technology/WH Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Fostering Older People’s Digital Inclusion to Promote Active Ageing
Keywords: ICT training, accessibility, digital inclusion
By Conor Browlee, ECDL Foundation – Brussels, Belgium
The International Student and the Challenges of Lifelong Learning
Keywords: distance learning, non-traditional students, pedagogy, e-learning
By David Mathew, Centre for Learning Excellence, University of Bedfordshire, UK and Susan Sapsed, Health and Social Sciences, University of Bedfordshire, UK
To read eLearning Papers 29 on Learning and Active Ageing click here
The Ageing Brain: Neuroplasticity and Lifelong Learning
The role of adult education is becoming increasingly important in the framework of policies to promote lifelong learning. Adult participation in training activities, however, is still rather low, despite the incentives and initiatives aimed at allowing all citizens access to education and training at all ages in their lives.
Participation tends to decrease concomitantly with increasing age: the major difficulty that elderly people have in learning is due to a deterioration of brain function, causing a progressive weakening of concentration, memory and mental flexibility. Today, advanced researches in neuroscience show that brain ageing may be reversible: the brain is plastic in all stages of life, and its maps can restructure themselves through learning experiences.
LLL-Mag
EUCIS-LLL gathers 30 European networks working in the various fields of education and training in order to promote lifelong learning.
This magazine aims at providing key data on validation, examples of countries’ profiles, interviews of experts but also of learners to give an insight about recent developments in Europe linked to the validation of non-formal and informal learning.
TICE 2012
TICE 2012 is an opportunity for scientists, from Computer Science to Educational Psychology, for teachers of all disciplines, for companies offering innovative solutions for teaching, and for human resources professionals to present their projects and forge partnerships in the following areas:
- Virtual environments (serious games, 3D virtual worlds);
- Social networks and collaborative learning;
- Self-training, informal learning (Lifelong learning) and mobility.
Themes:
This year conference general theme is ‘New pedagogies and new technologies’. We expect a special focus on the following areas:
- Virtual environments (serious games, 3D virtual worlds);
- Social networks and collaborative learning;
- Self-training, informal learning (Lifelong learning) and mobility.
Topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Learning environments (Personal Learning Environment, Web 2.0, Learning and social networks, collaborative Learning environments, interactive simulations, serious games, mobile and pervasive Learning environments, intelligent tutoring systems, etc.)
- Tel models and theories (Learning theories and models, cognition theories, cognition architectures, affects, learner models, knowledge models, interaction models, pedagogical models, ontology engineering, etc.)
- Software engineering and TELs (design process, methodologies, standards, component-based approaches, agent-based approaches, service-oriented approaches and cloud computing)
- Innovative interactions (Learning objects, Metadata and Learning resource indexing, Virtual agents, Educational data mining, etc.)
- TEL usages and evaluations (empirical studies, evaluations, TEL usability testing, etc.)
Important deadlines:
- Registration opens: April 10th, 2012
- Deadline for early registration: October 21st, 2012
- Online registration closes: December 2nd, 2012
- Deadline of abstract submission: September 10th, 2012
- Acceptance notification: October 8th, 2012
- Receipt of final papers: October 21st, 2012
For submission details and formats, go to the submission web page.
The main language for this conference is French but authors can submit paper written in English.
Web2LLP
The European Commission supported project Web2LLP was launched on 1 January 2012, with the aim to boost dissemination strategies of LLP projects through providing personalised support and training on the integration of social media, as well as through identifying best-practices and sharing resources, resulting in more coherent, participatory and sustainable project activities in the European lifelong learning area.
Social media (or web 2.0 tools) are instruments allowing people to build social and business connections, share information and collaborate on projects online, empowering a variety of human activity involving learning, interaction, collaboration, knowledge building and economic growth.
The dissemination of projects' outcomes with a view to optimise their value is a key element of LLP projects and although social media marketing is an emergent and flourishing area specialising in boosting promotion of activities and companies through viral networking tools, LLP project teams often do not take up social media in their web strategies. This may be due to a variety of factors including a lack of understanding of the different tools not enough time to customise their web strategy or they may not have access to appropriate guidance and support on how to put in pace an effective web strategy.
Web2LLP will address this need by:
- providing customised training, based on a bottom-up approach which is mindful to the needs of each project
- raising the visibility of innovative good practice in the use of social media practices and
- creating a common understanding as to how social media can be used as part of an effective dissemination strategies amongst LLP projects.
More information about the project and project partners is available on the Web2LLP home page.
Join the Web2LLP Diigo Group to share resources, post comments and collaborate.
Learning and Quality (LINQ) 2012
The motto of LINQ 2012 is:
"Innovation and Quality: How do they fit together?"
The conference is addressing Learning Innovations and Quality and in particular Lifelong Learning (LLL), Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL), quality standards and certification, human resources development, competences and skills, as well as learning, innovation and quality management systems.
LINQ 2012 has launched its Call for Papers, available here.
All experts and practitioners are invited to contribute to the dialogue on the Quality Certification in Learning, Education and Training (LET) and to submit high quality papers describing fully developed results, on‐going work or innovative concepts on the following topics:
Innovations and future trends in Learning, Education and Training (LET)
Quality Development and Certification in LET
Competence and skills development in lifelong learning
Implementation of learning innovations
Technology‐Enhanced Learning for schools, universities and lifelong learning
Web 2.0, Social Media and Online Communities for LET
Learning outcome orientation and quality certification
Standardisation of LET design, production and services
Knowledge, innovation and ideas management in LET contexts
Learning quality in vocational education and training and HR
Certification of LET services and providers
Quality and standardization of learning assessment and evaluation
Harmonization of innovations and quality development in LET
Overview of the important dates:
Paper submission deadline:
July 10, 2012August 10, 2012Notification of acceptance: August 20, 2012
Deadline for author registration: September 7, 2012
Camera-Ready copy due: September 7, 2012
Deadline for visitor registration: September 20, 2012
Conference program: October 23, 2012
On-line workshop on "Regional Collaboration and Partnership in University Lifelong Learning"
An on-line distance workshop in real time moderated by Kadri Kiigema, from the University of Tallinn, Estonia
If you are interested in:
- identifying the reasons why universities should work in regional collaboration and partnership;
- finding new partners among regional authorities or employers to broaden the potential market for courses or services and participate in regional development;
exploring the practical issues and opportunities that arise from regional collaborations and partnerships including critical aspects of their success
Then, join us in this on-line session.
Participation is free for all participants since it is part of the IMPLEMENT project supported by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the EC. A maximum of 20 participants can register to this workshop – so be quick.
What is IMPLEMENT?
IMPLEMENT aims at supporting universities in becoming true Lifelong Learning Universities. It is exploiting the excellent training materials of the BeFlexPlus project by creating virtual learning environments. Currently, the course materials are revised, adapted to partners’ LLL circumstances and updated to be turned into 5 distinct and freely available online courses.
These courses are intended for:
- counsellors, advisers, assessors, trainers or process managers working with RPL,
- heads of unit, project managers, experts in regional collaboration and partnership, project consultants, teachers or adult educators,
- administrators or managers in University Lifelong Learning/Continuing Education
Project objectives
- To develop a sustainable set of online training tools in five distinct areas for a wide use throughout Europe
- To use the material in training events for the development of university staff
- To cooperate with key university players for the materials’ adaptation to national and regional needs
- To promote trans-national and trans-sectoral cooperation
- To exploit best practices on key LLL topics
New Extended Deadline for Paper Submission on Learning and Active Ageing: April 27!
Learning and Active Ageing
This issue of eLearning Papers will explore innovative teaching methods and new learning environments being used effectively to promote lifelong learning among older people in Europe.
The ageing of the European population raises issues in almost all aspects of life: the employment and housing markets, pension schemes, health and welfare systems, transport networks, goods and services which will have to adapt to new needs and new social and financial realities. The way European society as a whole addresses these challenges will condition our future, its capacity to create smart and inclusive growth, strengthening knowledge, creativity and innovation that will benefit citizens of all ages , while at the same time reinforcing solidarity between generations to reinvent a new way of living together.
Active ageing in Europe calls for a new vision of older people and their social roles that are more in line with the reality of the 21st century. Lifelong learning is a key component of active ageing, ensuring to develop up-to-date skills right to the end of one’s professional career and continuing post-retirement to improve an individual’s social functioning and well-being and increase the potential for older adults to contribute actively to society through paid employment, volunteering, active citizenship and self-help for independent living. The relationship between higher educational attainment and living longer with improved health has been established in many countries. Furthermore, the roles of older people in workplace, or as volunteers or informal caregivers, contribute to their personal health and the wellbeing of communities.
In order to foster active ageing, older citizens need to have access to quality employment, the means to participate fully in society and the ability to live independently a fulfilling old age. This presents a two-fold learning challenge that addresses the skills and training of this target group and also raises awareness within the greater community.
This issue of eLearning Papers explores what teaching methods and learning environments are being used effectively to promote lifelong learning among older people. Enrichment and skill building educational programmes for older people must be continuously supported, promoted and facilitated as part of the active ageing process. This issue will also consider ways in which civil society, governments and employers support learning and active ageing.
Environments can be made much more age-friendly by increasing the public's sensitivity to the needs of older citizens and fostering an awareness of what they can contribute and why we need to mobilise all the human capital they represent. Public campaigns like the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations 2012 are giving rise to new initiatives that need to be shared and analysed.
eLearning Papers seeks submissions about learning and active ageing in the 21st century, for both sections: In-Depth and From the Field. We specifically invite contributions which address one or several of the following issues:
- Bridging the digital divide among older people paying due attention to specific challenges faced by older persons with impairments, ethnic minorities, low incomes, older women, etc.
- Open educational resources for non-traditional students
- Age-friendly environments, goods and services
- Fostering technical skills to create adept senior e-learners
- Learning environments for older learners
- Challenges for teachers and developers working with older students using ICT
- Policies and practice: institutional innovation supported by ICTs
The article submission has been extended to 27 April, 2012. The provisional date of publication is May, 2012.
For further information and to submit your article, please contact: jimena.marquez@elearningpapers.eu
Guest editor: Anne-Sophie Parent, Secretary General, AGE Platform Europe.
- See the complete guidelines at: Instructions for writers