2^nd ERDI Expert Seminar
Flexible Learning in New Environments
Contents and Contexts
Bergisch-Gladbach, 29/30 September 2000

The second International ERDI Expert Seminar attracted 30 participants from 16 European countries.
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Conference Announcement:

Seminar on Flexible Learning in New Environments - Contents and Contexts: Innovative learning environments – ICT / new media – learning in cultural institutions –- learning in daily life

'Flexible learning', as part of the lifelong learning process and involving especially self directed learning activities, needs changing learning environments and new forms of learner support. To identify new and innovative ways to offer learners appropriate forms for 'flexible learning' appears to be among the most pressing tasks in the near future. Learning environments are no longer closed. They are to be found in everyday life, at the workplace, during leisure activities. Learning environments are opening up and include contextual learning as an important part in their conception. Not only traditional educational institutions and educational departments in enterprises, but also cultural institutions such as libraries and museums are involved in this process of change. They are facing the double challenge to reposition themselves and to work out new forms of offering information and learning opportunities. Examples range from digitalised information over libraries in unusual locations up to different ways of cooperation between formerly competing organisations.

At the seminar we will exchange experience from different European countries and discuss both the consequences of theoretical considerations and the results of a number of recent projects concerned with developing innovative learning arrangements.
 

14.00 Opening of seminar
Ekkehard Nuissl von Rein, ERDI
Peter Bacher, ERDI

14.30 Session 1: New learning environments (Chair: Alastair Thomson)

New learning environments: Theory and Concepts (Powerpoint File)
Jyri Manninen, Palmenia Centre for Research and Continuing Education, University of Helsinki, Finland

Exchange: the Notion of "New learning environment" in different countries - current issues of discussion
all participants

16.00 Break

16.30 Session 2: Flexible learning (Chair: Hugo Verdurmen)

Learning communities: A social model of education in the information society
Jesús Gómez, Center for Social and Educational Research, Spain

Learning in daily life
Agnethe Nordentoft, Danish Research and Development Centre for Adult Education, Denmark

19.00 Close of Friday session

9.00 Session 3: Innovative learning environments in cultural institutions (Chair: Peter Bacher)

Libraries for the 21^st century: A cooperation project of the City Library Stuttgart and the German Institute for Adult Education

a) "Bibliothek 21" – concept and perspectives
Sigrid Bolzmann, City Library Stuttgart, Germany

b) Project EFIL: Innovative learning arrangements in cultural institutions and institutions of continuing education
Achim Puhl, German Institute for Adult Education, Germany

Democratising cultural infrastructures (Powerpoint File)
Paolo Federighi, University of Florence, Italy

13.00 Lunch break

14.30 A new system of flexible learning in Belgium (Powerpoint File 1.2MB))
Philippe Vercoutter, EduWest, Belgium

15.30 Session 4: Learning in virtual environments (Chair: Jyri Manninen)

Using ICT in adult learning: possibilities and challenges of learning in a new environment
Alastair Thomson, National Institute of Adult Continuing Education NIACE, U.K.

Exchange: Research on virtual learning / ICT based learning: current trends and projects in different countries
all participants

17.00 Break

17.30 Session 5: Discussion (Chair: Ekkehard Nuissl)
all participants

18.30 Closure of seminar

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