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Archive for September, 2008

Community ICT Provision & Learning

Posted on September 15th, 2008 by kevincw

Last week I attended some interesting seminar at the ALT-C conference in Leeds. One of the papers presented was around the subject of engaging people from deprived communities in higher education.  Interestingly, this research looked specifically at the barriers in relation to technology. The bits that stood out, as far as I was concerned, were [...]

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ACL = Community = Web 2.0?

Posted on September 4th, 2008 by kevincw

Yesterday I did a talk for some local authority community learning practitioners around the use of technology in adult learning.  As part of it, I asked them to vote using text messaging on what they felt made ACL/PCDL different from other forms of adult learning.  They had four options: Engagement: It’s about reaching the failed [...]

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