Learning & teaching
This category offers articles on best practices in learning and teaching, as well as the benefits and challenges of adult education and lifelong learning. These articles also explore global societal phenomena and their connections to lifelong learning.
The notion of validation dominates the way we recognise learning – and this is why it is a problem
French learning technology expert challenges the monopoly of institutional validation and shares his view on how learning should be recognised.
Open Educational Resources: Three Questions, Three Answers
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.
Researchers call for lifelong art education
Art should belong to everyone in the same way as health services. Nonetheless, adults inspired by music, for example, are easily excluded from art education.
“We are the last generation that can still prevent the unleashing of accelerating climate change”, says author of rewarded science article
To fight climate change, an alternative to selfish “homo economicus” is needed.
In Lisbon “old is the new young”
Grandma Came to Work is a project with a wide scope: the participants are elderly women who create design objects, break stereotypes and have fun – and gain health benefits as a side product.
A move to improve health literacy for the ageing population
Research study on the ability to understand health issues, communicate about health and take decisions about health has had a successful continuum.
Don’t study, don’t worry, be happy?
Education in itself does not seem to make life more satisfying, but to lead a happy life, one must be well-informed, says Ruut Veenhoven, Professor Emeritus of social conditions for human happiness. Here’s what he has to say about the relations between health, happiness and learning.
Better than well?
It’s not healthy to tell healthy people that they are sick when they are not, says Canadian non-fiction author Alan Cassels. In his books and research, he calls for better medical literacy skills for both doctors and their patients.
Men’s Sheds offer a way out of loneliness and isolation
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.
The complex connection between education and health
There is a two-way relationship between education and health. Lifelong learning opportunities are key to better health and social equality.
