The Learning Revolution

Welcome to The Learning Revolution!

The Learning Revolution is gaining momentum which is just great. This site is designed to gather views from interested people and to share progress to develop a culture of learning for all adults.

Please share your views, let us know what more we can do, and let’s be at the vanguard of The Learning Revolution!

We are going to be changing this site to match the areas most popular - watch this space.

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Heading home after BIS Learning Revolution Communications Stakeholder Group meeting.

Leading a learning revolution session is a bit disappointing so far :( #learntrends

is waiting at #learntrends for Chris Hardy to start his talk on leading a learning revolution. However he doesn't seem to be there...

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Numidia Education & Training added a blog post

We employed our Volunteer!

13 hours ago

Ania Bobrowicz and Barry Phillips joined The Learning Revolution

14 hours ago

Christine Lewis added a discussion to the group Broadcasting and Technology forum

Broadcasting and Technology seminar 25th November

We are holding a small expert seminar on 25th November abd in true Learning Revolution style will be uploading and blogging as it goes - please join in the discussions. The day will be broadly based around two areas: digital participation in the m...

16 hours ago

Tony Worsdall replied to Tony Worsdall's discussion 'Sharing experiences between projects'

I agree Jan . I attended a very inetersting conference in May 2009, where Lynne Shackley from the ICO pleaded the same. The subject of the conference ' Data Sharing and Information Management' Lets find ways to share, noit find reasons not to!!

17 hours ago

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What's happening in November and December?

The Broadcasting and technology forum is holding a seminar on 25th Nov - outputs will be put in the group so you can share your views. Check out the seminar

Yes we really have started a conversation about planning and funding for informal adult learning in the future and the role of local authorities in this. We want to hear your views. Join in the group discussion tab above or from here: here

Beta version of braingames just launched to support national literacy and numeracy can be found at www.braingames.org.uk
Finally see the events section at side of this page for what is happening in November

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Sharing experiences between projects 9 Replies

I want to contact some of the other projects about their work to see if we can learn from each other. However, NIACE are unable to share contact details because of the Data Protection Act. So, how ...

Started by Tony Worsdall in Share ideas. Last reply by Tony Worsdall 17 hours ago.

Talk about the Festival! 9 Replies

October marks your chance to join the Learning Revolution Festival when hundreds of events taking place across England will highlight the variety of learning that everyone can get involved in. Wh...

Started by Dave Briggs in Festival of Learning. Last reply by Nyree Scott 1 day ago.

We've started something in Ealing

Ealing Community Resource Centre is a fairly new UN ONline Centre, and we have not previously had much interest in the area. As part of the Learning Festival, we ran two "drop in" events, advertise...

Started by Ealing Community Resource Centre in Festival of Learning Nov 18.

SES Tutors UK Online Centre Events

Our festival events were successful in engaging many digitally excluded learners with informal learning using the myguide software. Some of these individuals have already commenced working t...

Started by Kirsty McChesney in Festival of Learning Nov 16.

Blog Posts

We employed our Volunteer!

We recently took part in The Learning Festival with UK Online's Pass IT On project which involved working closely with volunteers. We were so happy with the performance of one of our volunteers that we offered him a part-time job as a UK Online Tutor! A great result for everyone. Thanks to The Learning Revolution someone has gained employment after many years of being unemployed.

Posted by Numidia Education & Training on November 20, 2009 at 10:02pm

Open Learning Map

Thought this might be useful for adding to if you're in the North Staffordshire area, or replicating if you are elsewhere.

We've built an open learning map as part of our activities for the Learning Revolution. It's been easy to set up and we have been able to develop it with the help of our volunteer. It already has over 100 entries and we hope it will become a useful resource for local people and organisations. Plus it's quite exciting to see how much we've already found in a relatively small… Continue

Posted by clarewhite on November 17, 2009 at 6:13pm

Weekend weather fails to dampen Astronomy weekend or people's enthusiasm.

Despite the stormy wet weather of the weekend we, Skylark Holidays, successfully launched an Astronomy weekend that included a visit to the Derby and District Astronomical Society's local Flamsteed Observatory.

The launch was intended to celebrated the International Year of Astronomy with an “Astronomy for Enthusiastic Beginners” weekend. The event proved such a good experience of working with a local society that we will be repeating this model for our contribution to the Learning Revolution.… Continue

Posted by Paul Hunt on November 16, 2009 at 3:54pm

WE WON! TOPYX was named "Best of Elearning 2009"

I am very happy to share with you TOPYX won “Best of Elearning 2009”!

For more information please visit our website: http://www.interactyx.com/interactyx-limiteds-topyx-is-named-best-of-elearning-2009-award-winner

Please let me know if I can answer any questions or send you more details.

Best wishes!
Jodi

Posted by Jodi Harrison on November 13, 2009 at 6:31pm

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