Latest News & Events

The purpose of this section is to provide a guide to CR&DALL events and activities and to provide information on these and on events and issues relevant to the field of lifelong learning and adult and continuing education in general. This latter service is provided to assist exchange of information and discussion of issues amongst colleagues in the field; it does not purport to be an exhaustive reference to the canon. Please note also that CR&DALL cannot be responsible for the accuracy of information provided to us by outside bodies. Further information about the event or activity should be sought from the contacts given in that section as this is likely to be the sum total of information provided to us.
Wednesday, 28 February, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:00

This interactive webinar focuses on enhancing trainer understanding of key resource development techniques considerations.  This session delves deeper into how resources can be used and adapted to enable educators to utilise the same learning materials to meet the different learner needs and levels within their classroom.

Thursday, 8 February, 2024 - 07:55

Lavinia Hirsu and Gabriella Rodolico, both members of CR&DALL, are co-authors of a new University of Glasgow White Paper on the benefits and challenges that immersive technologies like virtual reality can bring to education. This work has been carried out within the Scoping Extended Educational Realities (SEER) research group led by Professor Neil McDonnell of the School of Humanities.

Thursday, 4 April, 2024 - 10:00 to 19:00

We are pleased to provide details of the conference, Education for All: Challenging Orthodoxies and Fostering Inclusion, which is to be held at Somerville College Oxford on 4 April 2024. This one day event is being organised in collaboration with the Council for Education in the Commonwealth in honour of the late Professor Lalage Bown.

Tuesday, 30 January, 2024 - 20:20

We are pleased to alert subscribers to the ESRC-funded project, A UK-Ireland investigation into the statistical evidence-base underpinning adult learning and education policy-making, within which CR&DALL Core Member, Ellen Boeren is Principal Investigator, and amongst others also involves CR&DALL core member, Zyra Evangelista.

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Tuesday, 30 January, 2024 - 17:00

We are pleased to publish this article originally published in the Discuss Community of Practice on Lifelong Learning by Randolph Preisinger-Kleine. It is a publication in German, entitled "Valuing non-formal and informal learning for sustainability" draws conclusions on expert interviews on education for sustainable development in Germany. The author is Dr. Mandy Singer-Brodowski, Freie Universität Berlin, Institut Futur, and the report, in German, is featured below and attached.

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