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.
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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.
Toolkit. What do games have to do with teaching first aid skills or identifying disinformation? We introduce five innovative ways of using gamification in adult learning.
Editorial. Technology alone cannot solve the big challenges of the coming decades. Soft skills are needed more and more, but do we understand what learning these skills requires in the digital world?
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.
Feature. How is gamification affecting adult education? Three experts share their views on the future of gamification and game-based learning.
Feature. Intergenerational learning improves the participants’ well-being, strengthens communities and helps to solve complex issues. That’s why it has a bright future.
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.
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.
Toolkit. Three educators and innovators introduce their methods for more democratic learning and creating.
Editorial. If people are fed up with democracy, educators need to come up with new ways to demonstrate the tangible value of democracy but also facilitate open discussion about its failings.
Spot on. The task of critical and democratic adult education is to address awkward questions, including those about the adult education sector, writes Lisa Maria Reilly.
Feature. Experts and researchers call for adult education to return to its roots and reinvent political education.