Resources: Lifelong learning

14 resources found for "Lifelong learning"

ESCalate News - Summer 2011 - Issue 20: This edition of ESCalate News is guest edited by Professor John Storan and Tony Hudson of the University of East London. It features articles outlining work happening within the HE and FE lifelong learning sectors. They represent a range of voices and perspectives, such as lifelong learning in Wales, the Aimhigher initiative, training a local workforce for a London college and raising HE participation in Northern Ireland. The newsletter is...
Teacher Educators' experience and use of reflection in the Lifelong Learning Sector: The project aims to investigate teacher educators’ experience and use of reflection and how they introduce and support reflection with trainee teachers. It will explore the theoretical models which teacher educators personally find most useful, and how they customarily engage in reflection eg. through personal introspection, by keeping a journal, and through discussion with colleagues. The project will also explore how teacher educators...
Resources from Using e-portfolios in teacher education (lifelong learning sector): Resources from the ESCalate event Using e-portfolios in Teacher Education (Lifelong Learning Sector), 26 February 2010. It includes presentations offering an Introduction to ESCalate, an Introduction to CETT and IfL, Online Resources from JISC-RSC, Using portfolios in Teacher Education in a Skills for Life setting and Teaching and Teacher Education in a Digital Age
STAR (Study Tips to Achieve Results): STAR (Study Tips to Achieve Results) is a study skills handbook for community learners. It gives advice on how to develop effective study strategies to help community learners make the most of the higher learning experience. The STAR handbook has been designed to identify and develop the specific study skills necessary for success. These include skills such as: time management, essay and report writing, preparing a presentation, grammar and...
First Year Experience in Continuing Education: Abstracts and presentations of this two-day international conference addressing the subject of Student Retention in Continuing Education held in April 2006
Masters' courses in the education of adults in the UK: This is a paper from the Academic Papers Online series from ESCalate, written by John Field, Richard Dockrell, Peter Gray in 2005. Universities provide a range of advanced qualifications for professionals who support adult learners. Describing and evaluating this body of work, though, poses something of a challenge. The field of continuing education is a broad one, which has been widened further by current government policies promoting lifelong...
Resources from Enhancing the experience of trainee teachers in the lifelong learning sector: Resources from the ESCalate event Enhancing the experience of trainee teachers in the lifelong learning sector, 20 April 2010 looking at how new practitioners in the lifelong learning sector best be supported. It includes two good practice guides, one for teacher educators and one for the employers of trainee teachers, plus presentations related to the research project and guides
Conceptualising learning and teaching for the ‘new lifelong learning sector’: This is an ESCalate research grant awarded to Andrew Holmes of the University of Hull in 2008. The project will help develop work-based learning provision within higher education institutions within the YHELLN network. The project has three aims: 1 Develop a new conceptual model based of learning in a business context based on a case study of successful inter-company learning (the Greater Economic Success group or GES) 2 Identify practical...
Assessment in Continuing Education: Presentations from this one-day conference for staff working in continuing education held on the 14th June 2005. Presentations include: "Assessment in Continuing Education: Student diversity and assessment design", a case study from the University of Cambridge"; Assessing Continuing Education", by Derek Young and Ginny Saich from ESCalate at the University of Stirling; "Flexible and accountable? Using professional dialogue to assess competence in...
ESCalate newsletter issue 9, autumn 2007: This is the ESCalate newsletter issue 9, published in autumn 2007. Articles in this issue include: Maintaining standards: promoting equality, What’s new in accessible teaching for 2007-08, Bill Rammell’s speech, A study tour in New South Wales, A collaborative UK/Canadian project, Towards a greener future: a University-community partnership. It is presented as a single PDF file of some 24 pages
Lifelong Education Research Networking (LERN) Phase Two: The Lifelong Education Research Networking (LERN) Project Phase Two is the second stage of a project to develop and pilot workshops and materials aimed at supporting lifelong learning practitioners in higher education in their efforts to take forward research in this important field
Interviews with well-known educators: Two interviews with influential members of the Education and Continuing Education communities: Alan Rogers, theorist and practitioner in adult learning, and Sue Crowley, Manager for the Centre for Professional Development at the Learning and Skills Development Agency.The transcripts of both interview are available to download as rtf documents
The origins of the CETTnet practitioner network: This is an article from the ESCalate newsletter, summer 2010, celebrating 10 years of the education subject centre. Diane Thurston wanted to enable practitioners in the lifelong learning sector to research more into their own working contexts - she accessed ESCalate funding in order to do this and explains here how the CETTnet Research Network came about
FACE Conference 2007: This article discusses Bill Rammell's speech at FACE Conference on July 2007 on social justice and lifelong learning where Rammell stated he is determined that everyone should have the opportunity to benefit from learning and on widely broadcasting the benefits of lifelong learning and the opportunities to participate in higher education. It appeared in the ESCalate newsletter (Autumn 2007)