GOAL How to score at adult learning

Frank Rennie and Wolfgang Greller

Introduction1. Increasing proportion of adult learners2. Adults have different needs3. Adults learn differently4. What are the situations of adult

learning?5. Reinforce learning options in a

distributed education format

How do adults learn?1. They relate to their experience2. Search for what they need3. Build upon what they know4. Discard the superfluous5. Resist being pushed6. They look for shortcuts 7. They look for applications

Learning at work

Learning from our peers

Learning socially

Adding to what they already know

Informal Learning

Partners in GOAL

The Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education (Northern Ireland)

Kodolányi János University College (Hungary) Koning Willem I College (Netherlands) Cavan and Monaghan Rural Development Co-

operative (Republic of Ireland) UHI Millennium Institute (Scotland)

Objectives of GOAL

Build a European Partnership to create an innovative approach in the e-training of adults.

Generate quality standards that underwrite the entire process of creation, development, delivery and evaluation of adult e-training.

Build a virtual 'desktop', 'manual' and multimedia 'toolkit' that creates transferable 'Training for Trainers' programmes.

Deliver, evaluate and revise this e-training, then cascade to diverse adult vocational target groups.

Deliver in 4 European languages, disseminate widely via traditional and virtual communication channels

Target Groups of GOAL

Initially, 5 cohorts of 20 trainers, each delivering to 20 trainees (total 2000) in 5 regions of 4 European countries in 4 languages.

Adult trainees - migrants; refugees; asylum seekers; adults in rural areas; unemployed without basic computer competences.

Potentially all European training organisations involved with adult community initiatives with motivation and capacity to deliver e-training programmes.

Summary

1. A focus on adults learning online2. Measuring attitudes and experiences3. Measuring results4. Key importance for the UHI5. Will inform design of distributed learning6. Could be significant for UHI curriculum

design.

www.goalproject.com