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Basic ALADIN Information
The Adult Learning Documentation
and Information Network (ALADIN) is a well developed, defined and
lasting follow-up initiative of CONFINTEA V (Fifth International Conference
on Adult Education) in 1997. This global network was brought to life
by the UNESCO Institute for Education (since July 2006 called UNESCO
Institute for Lifelong Learning) and the efforts of many adult learning
documentation and information centres. Its main concern is to facilitate
access to adult learning resources. Today it has about 100 members in
more than 40 countries in all regions of the world.
Its main communication platforms
are the ALADIN Website and the ALADIN Listserv, an e-Mail
connection between all ALADIN members.
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ALADIN Strategic Framework
ALADIN Vision
ALADIN works for a global learning society, where information and knowledge
on adult learning is created, well documented and made accessible to
all.
ALADIN Mission
The mission of ALADIN is networking and capacity-building of adult-learning
documentation and information services for a global network of networks.
It thereby facilitates informed policy-making, research and programme
development by making accessible relevant documentation and continuously
updated information on adult learning.
ALADIN Strategic Objectives
To fulfill its mission, ALADIN
is working towards serving as an information broker between researchers/practitioners
and policy makers by:
- sharing relevant
information on adult learning;
- correcting the uneven
distribution of adult learning documentation and information resources;
and
- providing training in adult
learning knowledge management.
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ALADIN Co-ordination
ALADIN is a network of the
UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) with the clear mandate
of UNESCO, CONFINTEA V and the UIL Governing Board. Its various activities
are co-ordinated by Lisa Krolak, Head of Documentation at the UIL in
Hamburg, in close co-operation with the ALADIN Task Force.
The ALADIN Task Force consists
of a maximum of ten active members, appointed by the ALADIN Co-ordinator,
taking into consideration the need for regional, linguistic, gender
and sectoral diversity. They meet once a year at different locations
and are connected through regular e-mail contact. Serving as an advisory
committee, they assist the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning in
setting priorities in ALADIN`s work, assessing the activities carried
out, and promoting ALADIN`s work in different regions of the world.
To assure the consistency of
ALADIN activities and to have a global overview, the ALADIN Co-ordinator
needs to be informed in advance about local ALADIN initiatives. For
the same reasons, regional and global ALADIN activities and funding
initiatives are made in consultation with the ALADIN Co-ordinator and
need her approval before being implemented.
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ALADIN`s History
- ALADIN, the Adult Learning
Documentation and Information Network, emerged in July 1997
from a CONFINTEA
V workshop which focused explicitly on adult learning documentation
and information. A group of people representing both the potential
users and the currently most active adult learning documentation and
information centres took stock of the present situation in the different
regions of the world and concluded that the organization of an interactive
knowledge management system was urgently needed in this domain. The
Head of the Documentation Centre at the UNESCO Institute for Education,
Ursula Giere, initiated and planned the workshop and was asked by
participants to lead and co-ordinate such initiative.
- In 1998, a worldwide
survey was conducted and the first annotated Directory of Members
was published. During Autumn 1998, a fellowship programme took
place and in October an expert seminar was held. The participants
of the expert seminar decided to call the network ALADIN and agreed
on a global ALADIN Action Plan.
- In 1999, the
ALADIN website has been launched. In November, the ALADIN Task
Force was convened through an e-Mail seminar.
- The development of ALADIN
has been stalled with the untimely sickness and death of the first
ALADIN Co-ordinator, Ursula Giere in the second half of
2000.
- A new Co-ordinator, Lisa
Krolak has started in May 2001. In August, an ALADIN workshop
took place at the ICAE World Assembly in Jamaica.
- The ALADIN e-Mail Listserv
was launched in January 2002. In April, the ALADIN Task
Force met in Canada to discuss ALADIN capacity building approaches.
In November, nearly 200 adult learning links were collected, annotated
and added to the ALADIN website.
- Five ALADIN members
received in May and June 2003 full scholarships to attend a
four-week certificate course at the Coady International Institute
in Canada. Most members of the ALADIN Task Force and various friends of
ALADIN met in September at an ALADIN thematic workshop in
Bangkok.
- In February and March
2004, two members of the ALADIN ICT and Standardisation
group from Norway and South Africa spent two weeks with Lisa Krolak
to discuss various ICT issues related to ALADIN. Six Latin American
ALADIN members met in July at INEA in Mexico. An ALADIN
lecture was held in September during the International Adult
Learners' Week in South Africa.
- In March 2005, a
national workshop on ALADIN India was convened in New Delhi.
In September and October Lisa Krolak and Eva Kupidura worked on the
contect of the ALADIN Toolkit for setting up basic
documentation centres on adult learning. In October, ALADIN members
met at Internatioal Adult Learners Week in Oslo.
- In February 2006,
the ALADIN ICT&Standardisation Group met in Brussels
and in March 2006, a workshop on the PALDIN e-Learning course
took place in India.
- In January 2007,
the ALADIN Task Force met in Hamburg to develop an
ALADIN Work Plan 2007-2009.
You can find detailed information about ALADIN workshops and projects
in the News Section
of the ALADIN Website.
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ALADIN Publications
Please contact the ALADIN Co-ordinator
Lisa Krolak at l.krolak@unesco.org if you are
interested in obtaining any of the following publications free of
charge:
- Krolak, Lisa: ALADIN Directory
of Members. 2005 / 2006. Updated Version. UNESCO Institute
for Education: Hamburg, 2005.
- Krolak, Lisa: Energizing ALADIN:
Report of the Workshop Held at the CONFINTEA V Mid-term Review
Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, September 2003. UNESCO
Institute for Education: Hamburg, 2005. 20 p. ISBN
92-820-1141-0.
- Adams, Sue; Krolak, Lisa; Kupidura,
Eva and Pangerc Pahernik, Zvonka: Libraries and Resource Centres:
Celebrating Adult Learners every week of the year.In: Convergence.
Vol. XXXV, Nr. 2-3, 2002. pp. 27 - 39.
- Giere, Ursula; Imel, Susan (eds.):
From Idea to Virtual Reality: ALADIN - the Adult Learning
Documentation and Information Network. Report of a CONFINTEA V
Workshop and its Follow-up. UNESCO Institute for Education: Hamburg,
2000. 85 p. ISBN 92 820 1105-4.
- Giere, Ursula; Imel, Susan (eds.):
Task Force E-Mail Seminar of the Adult Learning Documentation and
Information Network (ALADIN). 15 - 20 November 1999. Final Report.
UNESCO Institute for Education: Hamburg, 2000. 75 p.
- Giere, Ursula (ed.): Global
Community of Adult Education Through Information and Documentation:
Creating an Adult Learning Documentation and Information Network
(ALADIN). Expert / Steering Committee Seminar. UNESCO Institute for
Education: Hamburg, 29-31 October 1998. Report and Action Plan. UIE,
1998. 26 p.
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