Informal Learning - Making the Connections

Joining-up digital learning opportunities
Date: 27 Feb 2009
Venue: Birmingham:
Aston Business School, Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET
Ref: C1775/0209
Fee:

£150 (Includes lunch, tea/coffee.)
NB: NIACE does not charge VAT on conference and course fees
Contact: Gurjit Kaur (gurjit.kaur@niace.org.uk) Tel: 0116 204 2833
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Background

The government's consultation paper Informal Learning - shaping the way ahead (January 2008) devoted a whole chapter to the importance of technology and broadcasting for adults undertaking informal learning. This initiated a wide-ranging debate on the distinctive part that technology and broadcasting can play at specific stages in learning journeys. As we move from the period of consultation to policy development and implementation, NIACE and Becta have agreed to work together on this conference to draw together the results of these debates and to present results from recent research. We hope that this will help to inform both policy makers and practitioners in preparing for strategic and practical application of technology and broadcasting in the twenty first century.

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Aims

The event is intended to:

  • promote a strategic view of how technology and broadcasting can be used to support the full range of informal learning activities
  • promote debate on how to deliver maximum benefit to adult learners through use of digital media at all stages of a learning journey
  • explore how technology and broadcasting can be used to forge stronger connections between different learning experiences (structured and unstructured)
  • provide networking opportunities to forge new links between organisations which support informal adult learning with technology

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What participants will get out of attending the event

The conference will explore how we can make the best use of technology and broadcasting for informal learning. In particular, it will address the ways in which technology can be used at different stages in a learning journey. These will include: initial engagement, information delivery, learning through collaborating with others, recording learning progress and using this to plan for next stages, and celebrating the outcomes of learning.

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Audience

The event will be of particular interest to policy makers, managers and practitioners who want to increase the capacity of their organisation to use technology and broadcasting to join up learning opportunities. This is a broad area of work and will include people working in the following areas:

  • Libraries, Archives
  • Galleries
  • Health, Countryside access
  • FE Colleges, Adult Learning providers
  • Community Media, Broadcasters
  • Online content providers
  • Self organised study groups
  • Digital Inclusion, Digital Mentors
  • Universities, Third sector providers

Your attendance at this conference and your subsequent reflection may be regarded as evidence of your continuing professional development.

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Pre event forum

There are a limited number of places available to join a pre-event online forum to help shape the discussions at the conference. There is no additional charge for this element of the conference but participants must be able to commit to log in at least three times a week between 2 and 16 February 2009.

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Programme

09:45 Arrival and registration (tea/coffee available)
10:15 Welcome and overview of the day and setting aims
Chair: Alastair Clark, Senior Development Officer, NIACE
10:30 From Policy to Practice - the place of technology and broadcasting in national policy
Mick Murray, Development Officer, NIACE
10:45 Forum Offline - Table discussions building on the pre-conference forum debates
11:00 Informal Learning and Technology - a strategy for joined up learning
Jane Williams, Executive Director, Becta
11:15 Knowledge Cafe (including coffee)
A chance to take your coffee and circulate in the knowledge cafe. Cafe hosts will include people working with: digital inclusion, health promotion, podcasts and broadcasting, handheld devices, libraries, structured learning delivery, staff training, online resources, community development, museums and archives
12:30 Panel Introductions
Panel members will introduce themselves. (Panel specialisms will include: broadcasting, local authority, third sector, museums, archives, staff training and national policy)
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Learning journeys with technology - research findings
Leila Walker, Cassie Hague, Futurelab
14:20 Seminar groups - 'New thinking, new connections'
15:30 Panel responses - 'New thinking, new connections'
16:00 Summary and close of conference (tea/coffee available)

This programme is correct at the time of going to press. The organisers reserve the right to make changes to the published programme in the event of one or more of the advertised speakers being unable to attend. Delegates will have no claim against NIACE in respect of such changes.

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Application Form

(For people not using the online reservation system above.)

 

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