Learning with an online community
Vicki Mennie, ABC Open contributor, lives near Moruya a small rural community on the far south coast of NSW, where the large local population of kangaroos almost equals the number […]
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Teaching skills for digital storytelling
ABC Open producer Vanessa Milton’s patch takes up an area in New South Wales stretching from the Victorian border to Batemans Bay and across to the Snowy Mountains. On any […]
Opening doors to rural life
In small village halls, bush libraries and regional towns across Australia, ABC Open producers teach locals how to hone and share digital stories to share with a huge online community. […]
Learning from the NDIS rollout
Trials of the new National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) have been underway since July 2013. Participants in the trials say planning ahead is key for everyone involved – including community organisations. Are you NDIS ready? The National […]
Tips for a creative workplace
We know that students learn best when they’re enjoying themselves. The same goes for staff. People do their best work when they enjoy their jobs, trust the people they work […]
Hands on at Hawthorn Hackerspace
Hacker or makerspaces are the latest in a long tradition of community spaces that offer opportunities for informal learning. On a dark winter’s night in Melbourne’s Hawthorn, a lime green perspex door trimmed with […]
Aboriginal literacy program flourishes
A whole-of-community adult literacy campaign based on a revolutionary Cuban education method is having life-changing results in Indigenous communities in outback NSW. The first pilot of the Cuban-designed mass literacy […]
Meet our new board members
Recent elections have brought some fresh faces to the ALA Board. Here’s a chance to learn a little more about some of our newer Board members. Chris McCall (Vic) I […]
Campaigning for lifelong learning
Professor Alan Tuckett OBE, acknowledged guru of adult education, shares his views on intergenerational and lifelong learning. In the northern UK city of Sunderland there’s a learning centre underneath the stands at the Sunderland Football Club. […]
Connecting a community
Pairing tech savvy schoolkids with older people struggling with new technology has proved a perfect match in the Victorian town of Traralgon. The idea of a service to help older peoplein the […]
Tips and trends: take better camera phone photos
It’s truer than ever that a picture is worth a thousand words. And with cameras in our phones there’s no excuse. Here’s some tips for getting some great shots. 1. […]
Women take the lead
A new program encouraging women to take up tutoring in adult and community education is taking off in Western Australia. When Ruth O’Dwyer saw the ad on Facebook for the ACE […]
Disengaged young people on path to learning
The SA Government has allocated $1.142 million dollars to Community Centres South Australia to fund a one-on-one program to help people who have previously found it difficult to study or […]
Corrections on course
For those with a criminal record or trying to adjust to life after prison, poor literacy is a burden that can make rehabilitation that much harder. A Tasmanian adult literacy […]
Council strategy encourages community learning
Glenorchy City Council in Tasmania has launched a LEARN (Learning, Engaging, Achieving, Respect and Networking) Strategy to provide the community with opportunities to continue learning for life. The LEARN Strategy aims to address low participation […]