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The lost languages
Language schools across Europe are dealing with the pandemic with varying degrees of success. A lot of it comes down to how governments are helping – or not helping - them.
A Finnish design book for web-based learning highlights the benefits of Open Educational Resources
Initially created to benefit technical universities in Finland, the Design Book for Online Learning has found a larger audience – thanks to open access and active citizenship.
Continuing Education? No thanks!
Speakers' Corner. Resistance to continuing education is a reasonable, meaningful, legitimate defence against the imposition of the endless learning efforts adults are confronted with.
Adult education and the cruel optimism of the technological solutionism
Speakers’ Corner. It is clear that moving to online teaching is not the miracle cure that many make it out to be, Maren Elfert writes. Cruel optimism builds visions for a future that are likely to become reality only for a privileged few.
Continuous learning as a right and a necessity
Following Finland’s EU-presidency, we talked to the Finnish Minister of Education, Li Andersson, about the strengths and challenges of the Finnish non-formal adult education and the role of adult learning in surviving the global crisis.
Bringing digital empowerment into everyday life
Reportage. For the past three years, Lisbon City Council has been working to demystify the use of everyday technology. When covid-19 suspended all in-person training, helping people to use digital tools to fully exercise their citizenship became more relevant than ever.
Adult education for people with disabilities: How do you access the inaccessible?
Spot on. Despite improvements in inclusive education in the compulsory and higher education sectors in the Republic of Ireland, participation by people with disabilities in adult education remains stubbornly low, writes Lisa Maria Reilly.
Discussing similarities and differences in global adult education
Three Quick Ones. We asked four students from different parts of the world to reflect on their experience at the international Winter School of Adult Education and Lifelong Learning.

LATEST ISSUE

Future of adult education 1/2021

Tomorrow’s learning: utopias and dystopias

Three Voices. Adult education experts and researchers from Serbia, Belgium and Finland share their vision for what learning could and should look like in the coming years.

Making up the empathy deficit

Feature. Empathy is a necessary skill in the future, when humankind is solving more and more complex global problems together. Increasing empathy in societies has become a more prominent issue.

Educational games, mobile quizzes and digital badges are transforming learning

Feature. How is gamification affecting adult education? Three experts share their views on the future of gamification and game-based learning.

When different generations come together, everybody wins

Feature. Intergenerational learning improves the participants’ well-being, strengthens communities and helps to solve complex issues. That’s why it has a bright future.

The future of work calls for softness

Interview. How does a futurist view lifelong learning? We talked to Perttu Pölönen about the effects of e-learning, the changing role of validation and the skills that separate us from machines.

Latest theme issues

1/2021

Future of adult education

What are the innovations and challenges that will shape education in the post-pandemic world?

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4/2020

Adult Education and Democracy

Democracy needs constant work to function. How can adult education help?

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3/2020

Adult education and Numeracy&Finance

What are the real needs for numeracy and financial literacy education for adults?

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