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.
Speakers’ Corner. The sudden shutdown of the adult education sector has forced institutions to quickly renew their thinking. In Finland, Lauri Tuomi witnessed how piano lessons and Spanish courses w...
Speakers’ Corner. Low-skilled and low-paid adults are providing essential services and known as key workers during the current pandemic. Will they have better chances for personal and career-related...
Feature. Palestinian social workers in Lebanon have been training with psychologists to manage the stress caused by their job. The trainees are now learning to pass their skills on.
Feature. A recent study found that particularly older internet users were responsible for sharing fake news online. But there’s much more to the seniors’ media literacy skills than that, as resear...
Feature. All seniors did not familiarize with modern information and communication tools in their working lives. But now, since digital competence is strongly linked to wider well-being and autonomy, ...
News story. Increased competitiveness and more visibility in society. These requirements have become familiar to universities in recent years. How to make them a reality? A study from Finland offers o...
Reportage. Life in a city is shaped by common history. How can these roots be best discovered? By telling stories! At "narrative cafés", people sit comfortably together and talk about their experienc...
Reportage. What do human beings hope from their urban environments? One answer is non-commercial spaces allowing them to engage in meaningful social interactions and new experiences. But building educ...
Interview. What is the role of continuous education in answering a global megatrend, the revolution in working life? How to make workplaces value lifelong learning? Two education experts share their t...
Interview. Are you worried about climate change? Many young people will say “yes”. The concern of young people about the environment is real, and it is the job of adults to take it seriously, says...
World of Research. Solving wicked problems such as the climate crisis requires changes to lifestyle, technology and political decision-making. In addition we need to develop our fundamental ways of th...
Toolkit. Sex educator Pelle Ullholm from long-running Swedish sexual and reproductive health organisation, RFSU, shares 5 tips on how to target the adult audience.
Reportage. The EU has invested a lot of money and human resources in an ePlatform for Adult Learning in Europe, EPALE. How does it work? In honour of the five-year anniversary, Michael Sommer listed ...
Toolkit. While teaching primary school children requires a qualification, in many countries virtually anyone can declare themselves to be an adult educator. The GRETA project in Germany is trying to f...
Interview. Qualifica centres are state-supported validation and qualification centres for adults. The results are promising, as the example of Azambuja's Qualifica centre shows.
Three quick-ones. Skills-based badges not only recognise a learner’s achievements but also boost their self-esteem and motivation.
Spot on. It is time to update traditional ideas about the recognition of learning, and to adopt a model from the world of children and young people, writes Lauri Tuomi, CEO of the Finnish Lifelong Lea...
Three quick ones. What are OERs and why should an adult educator care about them? Jan Koschorreck, a research assistant working with the German OER Information Hub, answers three questions.
News story. European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA) has renewed its adult education manifesto and hopes to convince the decision-makers about the benefits of adult education.
Editorial. Education seems to have many benefits for health – and being able to make better decisions about whom to resort to in times of sickness might be one of them.
Interview. Research study on the ability to understand health issues, communicate about health and take decisions about health has had a successful continuum.
News story. Instead of looking for company and discussing their issues, men tend to isolate themselves. This leads to many kinds of health issues, which the Men's Sheds movement is targeting.
Spot on. The media is full of conversation and articles about health with various opinions and methods. Some of them are true and some only groundless nonsense or even harmful advice. Voluntary medici...
Toolkit. The Danish Adult Education Association is working on this question and will now share some of the observations it has made so far.
Toolkit. Mature age students often experience trepidation when taking on adult learning courses. Here are a few reasons why one should face their fears and do it anyway.
Editorial. The media literacy skills of school children are a hot topic at the moment. However, the ones most in need for such skills seem to be we adults, who are even more lost in the digital era. T...
Feature. Misleading health stories can have horrid effects on people’s lives. The responsibility of media literacy and critical thinking rests on the shoulders of both the makers and readers of heal...
Feature. Media literacy is the all-important citizen skill of the 21st century, but in Finland, adults in particular are falling behind.
Feature. In Austria, community media has had a significant role in teaching adults critical media literacy. The inspiring case brings front a conclusion: while it is important to reflect on media rec...
