Learning Without Frontiers' Documents and Papers
Some of the documents on this site are available in HTML and PDF format. You are invited to look into the papers of your interest, and provide us with your input.
Sharing experiences and inviting your input
Learning
together in an environment of shared resources:
Challenges on the horizon of the year 2020 (a PDF document). By Jan Visser as a contribution to the preparation by UNESCO of the report "UNESCO: Horizon 2020."
What does it mean to be learning in the perspective of Horizon 2020? Both the schooling tradition and many of the alternative pathways to learning that complement it, such as much of the distance education tradition, still treat knowledge as something independent of the relationship between the beholder and her or his world. Fundamental changes are required in the ways in which, both at individual and societal levels, learning and the conditions that promote and facilitate it are being conceived.- Changing
Learning Environments: the real and not so real of reality and
virtuality (a PDF document). An increasing number of virtual
providers of education emerge. Other, already existing, institutions
add virtual dimensions to their more traditional forms of educational
delivery. What does it all mean? How real are those virtual institutions?
What distinguishes them from the institutions (providers of face-to-face
education and distance education) we are used to? How should
these developments affect us? Can lessons be learned? This paper
tries to address some of these questions while raising other
ones.
- Our partners in India have been working on developing this background concept paper for a new project that they plan on catalyzing: Udaipur as a Learning City. We would greatly appreciate your thoughts and suggestions on it as well as any additional contacts/resources materials/experiences which we should consult. Please feel free to share this call with others. Please send your comments c/o Vidhi Jain, Learning Activist, Shikshantar. (included 15/4/99)
- The first on-line version of the original contribution to UNESCO's World Communication and Information Report 1999 (PDF Document) written by Prof C. Blurton from the University of Hong Kong. In the final form it will be significantly reduced in size. Especially because of the many interesting references we decided to provide the full document on-line. The many interesting references to web-sites appearing in this text are not yet verified, nor directly clickable. We are working on these issues. (included 13/4/99)
- Technology Portfolio, a compilation of cases and opinions surrounding the issue of technology and learning..
- Multilingualism in a Pervasive Learning Environment. About the inadequacies of today's schooling, but more important: What can we learn from inspiring experiences from, literaly, around the world?
- Information Technology, Adult Learning, Employment (ITALE). LWF is supporting this study into adult learning needs and the impact of IT in the adult learning process.
- Rethinking Community Schools - Conceptualizing Open Learning Communities. A discussion brief prepared in close collaboration with the NGOs Programme on Literacy and Education for All.
Projects by LWF and partners: reference, progress, evaluation
- Project Proposal Mozambique
Following up on the activities reflected in the three documents
below, LWF has now produced a project proposal consisting of
three parts. The first part outlines the proposal of the project
and particularly concerns activities which will be implemented
in the Province of Nampula. The second document is
of a macro nature, and concerns the establishment and structure of a Foundation for Learning Without Frontiers in Mozambique, which will promote and disseminate this concept, and which will be responsible for the implementation of the project. The third part, which is still under preparation, will define the modes of collaboration between the main parties involved in this project. (Included 28/6/99) - Quadro Operacional Para Um Projecto
De Aprender Sem Fronteiras em Moçambique (proposta)
(PDF Document). During the Spring of 1998, a national team worked
on the development of an operational framework of action. Available
on this web site is the result of that exercise (available only
in Portuguese). (Included 4/6/98)
Durante a primeira metade de 1998 uma equipa nacional elaborou um quadro operacional para actividades visando alcançar os beneficiários da aprendizagem não alcançados em Moçambique. O resultado desse exercício, que se baseia no relatório ao Ministro da Educação mencionado a seguir, apresenta-se aqui. (Incluido 4/6/98) - Alacançando os Beneficiários
da Aprendizagem não Alcançados em Moçambique
(PDF Document). Um relatório ao Ministro da Educação
sobre as necessidades de aprendizagem e caminhos alternativos
de aprendizagem na perapectiva de uma resposta integrada às
necessidades de uma sociedade em rápido desenvolvimento
num mundo complexo.
This is a PDF file, included 27 January 1998. Size 216 KB. Also available in compressed version: 178 KB - Reaching Unreached Learners in
Mozambique ( PDF Document). A report to the Minister of Education
on learning needs and alternative pathways to learning in the
perspective of an integrated response to the needs of a rapidly
developing society in a complex world.
This is a PDF file, included 7 January 1998. Size 173 KB. Also available in compressed version: 136 KB - Internet in African Teacher Training: description of this pilot project, currently being implemented in Zimbabwe (included 11/3/97).
Conference contributions: papers and games
- Jurgen Zimmer, Gunter Faltin, David Becker et al. 'Transforming Community Schools into Open Learning Communities: A Resource Paper',, International Community Education Association - International Academy (INA/ICEA). (Included 28/6/99)
- Jan Visser, Basarab Nicolescu, Ron Burnett, Cheick Diarra, Marcy Driscoll, Leon Lederman, Robert Tinker and Boris Berenfeld are in Canada, contributing to the Symposium on Overcoming the Underdevelopment of Learning at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, held in Montreal from 19 to 23 April 1999. All their full text contributions are available on-line through the links on this page.
- "Re-conceptualizing Learning Environments for Sustainable Human Development: The Potential of ICTs". (PDF Document) In May, LWF participated in the Ghana Computer Literacy and Distance Education Conference (GhaCLAD'98) in Accra. The materials used in the four hour session contain among others the facilitator instructions, the used case studies. This on-line version is the reviewed version, based on user evaluation and our experience in Accra. .
- The Need For A New Perspective: Creating Learning Networks for African Teachers, Change, Professional Development and ICTs. A paper presented at the conference: 'Capacity Building for Information Technologies in Education in Developing Countries' (CapBIT) (25-29 August 1997, Harare, Zimbabwe). (Included 16/1/98)
- Simulation Game "Constructing
Open Learning Communities to Inspire a Changing World"
(A PDF file). A game designed by LWF and played during the Global
Knowledge Conference in June 1997. This file contains all material
you need to play the game: from facilitator instructions, a radio
broadcast and basic indicators for the the countries of Hoth
and Milarepa to role descriptions and worksheets for participants.
(Included 4/2/98)
Size 192 KB. - LWF contributed to the ICDE conference early June 1997 with four articles: "Learning Without Frontiers: Beyond Open and Distance Learning."
- What Kind of Literacy for What Kind of Development? is a series of Powerpoint slides used by our team members in a presentation held on 29 May 1997, during a meeting on "ICTs For Learning" (UNDP, New York)
- Susanne Schnuttgen (1997). 'Open Learning Communities Under Construction: Are NGOs Contributing to the Process?', Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Conference on Education, Democracy and Development at the Turn of the Century, Mexico City. (Included 28/6/99)
- Towards Open Learning Communities: One Vision Under Construction (also available as PDF document), a paper presented in the panel "Constructing Open Learning Communities to Inspire a Changing World" during the CIES '97 conference: "Education, Democracy and Development at the Turn of the Century (March 18-23, 1997).
- "Towards Building Open Learning Communities: Re-contextualizing Teachers and Learners" (a PDF Document). Contribution to the international conference on Information Technology: Supporting Change Through Teacher Education Kiryat Anavim, Israel, 30 June - 5 July 1996.
Learning Without Frontiers: the Concept and the Unit
- The first on-line version of the original contribution to UNESCO's World Communication and Information Report 1999 written by Prof C. Blurton from the University of Hong Kong. In the final form it will be significantly reduced in size. Especially because of the many interesting references we decided to provide the full document on-line. The many interesting references to web-sites appearing in this text are not verified, nor directly clickable. (Included 13/4/1999)
- UNESCO Sources, a monthly magazine, published a special issue on Learning Without Frontiers in English, French and Spanish. (PDF Document) (Included 21/7/98)
- About Learning Without Frontiers (as included at the bottom half of the Home Page)