Playing for adults – five examples of game-based learning tools
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.
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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.
Essay. As the first steps are being taken to use artificial intelligence to support the acquisition of skills, many questions remain unanswered.
Feature. How is gamification affecting adult education? Three experts share their views on the future of gamification and game-based learning.
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.
Feature. Zimbabweans are learning to utilise social media to speak about their repressive government and fight for better policies.
Feature. Statistics are used for clarifying big data and making it more comprehensible. They can also be used in misleading ways, either by accident or in order to influence us. Do we actually underst...
Editorial. What comes to mind if you think about numeracy or financial skills? For too many people, the strongest feeling is shame.
News story. In Portugal only slightly over one third of senior citizens use the internet. In order to fight this digital exclusion, more must be done, researcher Celiana Azevedo argues.
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. An increasingly vocal section of Europeans believe in themselves or their neighbour more than they do researchers. Why does talking from experience outdo scientific knowledge?
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.
Editorial. The #MeToo movement showed clearly that, for many of us adults, ideas of sexuality and sexual rights have grown outdated, to say the least. For the enjoyment and safety of us all, ways to s...