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Keyword from Index: informal learning

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Europe; Germany; Austria; Turkey; Italy; Lithuania
"NIILS explores how informal and non-conventional learning spaces are used in higher education, in different countries and regions. Recommendations and guidelines for users are developed to promote inclusive informal learning environments that are conducive to learning and well-being." NIILS was a project co-financed by the European Union, running from 2022 to 2024. The [...]

international
The Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) offers various resources on education in conflict situations and emergencies, die auch die Lernumgebung betreffen: * Improving Learning Environments Together in Emergencies (ILET) (manual, video, toolkit => see link icon for the entire zip package) * Creating an Inclusive Learning Environment: Classroom Guide * [...]

Europe; Germany; Sweden; Poland
Please note: The links to the manuals on this page are no longer working. We are providing working links from the Internet Archive for the introduction and the first two books. The third book is unfortunately not archived there. * Educational Spaces 21 - Introduction [pdf] * Physical and Architectural Learning Environments [pdf] * Virtual and Technological Learning [...]

Europe; international
"The Learning Spaces School Toolkit provides practical guidance on how to make education infrastructure and learning environments more sustainable and supportive of the development of sustainability competences, student health, well-being and learning. The toolkit has been developed in the context of the study on 'School learning environments for sustainability in the EU', [...]

Europe; international
"This Compendium of Good Practices has been developed as part of the Study on school learning environments for sustainability in EU Member States, which supports the European Commission’s commitment to helping Member States integrate sustainability into education. The Compendium presents 23 snapshot examples of good practice, as well as material on the design of effective [...]

Europe; international
"North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries and its Distance Education and Learning Technology Applications (DELTA) partnered with strategic consultants brightspot strategy and AECOM to design, share, and promote an updated model for institutions to plan and support technology-rich informal learning spaces. This Learning Space Toolkit includes a roadmap to guide the [...]

United Kingdom
"Countryside Classroom helps teachers to find resources, places to visit and school support relating to the themes of food, farming and the natural environment. Our site contains a range of quality assured educational content from hundreds of contributors. Countryside Classroom is a managed by a partnership of organisations that represent the very best in food, farming and [...]

Australia; New Zealand
Led by the University of Melbourne’s Learning Environments Applied Research Network (LEaRN), the ILETC Project aimed to bridge the gap between what we saw as an unrealised educational potential of innovative learning environment design and to develop a mechanism for achieving this across as a range of educational sites. This website provides a cache of the significant [...]

Europe
"This Commission-led NEB Lab project connects transformation initiatives, proof of concepts and practices making a difference in where and how people learn across Europe and beyond - from classrooms to streets, playgrounds, and libraries." A more detailed presentation of the project (PDF) including examples can be found in the Internet Archive. After the proposals for [...]

Europe
Novigado (Active learning and innovative teaching in flexible learning spaces) is the follow-up project to EDUSPACES21. The project aims to "support schools and related stakeholders in the transition from a conventional and teacher-centred classroom into teaching practices that promote active learning with the support of innovative learning environments and use of relevant [...]

Europe
Founded in 2012 by European Schoolnet, the Future Classroom Lab (FCL) is both a physical location in Brussels and the online platform linked here. Online, you can take a virtual tour of this experimental learning environment lab, which aims to "rethink the role of pedagogy, technology, and design in the classroom. In six learning zones, visitors can explore the essential [...]

international; United States of America (USA)
Since the original page has been offline since approximately 2025, we are linking to a copy of the page from the Web Archive. The LSC was "collaborating community of researchers, academic leaders, architects, practitioners and other stakeholders who share a commitment to transforming the learning environments for undergraduates in all fields." Many full texts can be found in [...]

United Kingdom
"The Council for Learning Outside the Classroom (CLOtC) is a national registered charity that champions all learning that happens beyond the classroom (LOtC). Their work supports educators, schools and organisations who are dedicated to ensuring more children and young people have opportunities for life-changing learning experiences beyond the classroom ...". Among other [...]

Europe; Germany; Sweden; Poland
The project "Educational Spaces 21. Open up!" (EDUSPACES21 for short), which ran until 2016, aimed to "assist schools in modernizing their educational spaces with 21st century solutions in mind. The central idea of this approach is to see educational space in broader terms than as a mere classroom. This encompasses three principal dimensions: physical space (architecture, [...]

international
The articles listed here were published in the "International Journal for Research on Extended Education (IJREE)". Most of them come from these two volumes: * Vol. 1, No. 1-2013: National Research Reports (Part I) * Vol. 2, No. 1-2014: National Research Reports (Part II) The articles are freely accessible. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

international
The WERA research network "Extended Education" deals with extracurricular learning and informal learning places worldwide. The network provides an annual report on its activities, organises its own conference and publishes conference proceedings. It also works closely with the "International Journal for Research on Extended Education (IJREE)". WERA was founded in 2009 and [...]

international
The mission of the International Network for Research in Arts Education is to promote high quality international research in arts education (formal non formal and informal), to conduct research on the implementation of UNESCO’s “Seoul Agenda: Goals for the development of arts education”, and to serve as a forum for the dissemination of research, the promotion of debates [...]

Palestinian Territories
The project "LifeLong Learning in Palestine" is a Tempus Project of the European Commission under the lead of the School of Education at the University of Glasgow with partner institutions in England, Malta and Palestine. The website offers a lot of fulltext documents and videos not only on lifelong learning but also on other educational topics in Palestine (e.g. civil [...]

Austria; Bulgaria; Croatia; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Ireland; Italy; Latvia; Lithuania; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Turkey; Europe; Czechia; Russian Federation
The website provides short reports in English about the situation of Adult Education and Lifelong Learning for each of the member countries of the European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA). The reports are structured as follows: Introduction Overview Politics and Law Future trends/key concerns/directions Structure overview Key Providers/Main [...]

Sweden
The Swedish National Council of Adult Education is a non-profit association with certain authoritative tasks delegated by the government and the Riksdag (the Swedish Parliament). The Council distributes government grants to study associations and folk high schools, submits budgetary documentation and annual reports to the government and follows up and evaluates folkbildning [...]