Digital nations in the making
New technologies and adult learning: Experience from Canada, USA & the UK
by Ian Harford
Publisher: NIACE. May 2006.
This website is a virtual annexe to the above book and has links to its Photo Gallery and to documents referred to in the text. It is being updated regularly after the book's publication with items of relevance about ILT, adult education and emerging technologies; and through comments and postings in Ian's companion blog, Transforming Learning (below).
Photo Gallery from North America
Impressions from a big continent, 2002-05
Transforming Learning blog (2006)
Postings and links - ILT & adult education
Archer Project - WEA scheme for economic & cultural regeneration,
1994 ICT proposal to the EU
Developing a WEA IT Strategy for Teaching and Learning
Discussion document, 6 September 1996
Online to ease poverty, (1999)
TES, Further Education Focus, 3 September 1999
1999 Interview with Lynda Haworth
The WEA ICT in the community programme
WEA proposal, D2L (Direct to Learn): Putting content on the network
November 1999
Webtalk northwest, online forum
Millenium manifesto, January 2000
Harford, I. (2000) The Net Show: Lessons for Lifelong Learning?
Webtalk northwest 2000(1)
Adshead, J. (2001) An Arts project for adults with learning difficulties.
Webtalk northwest 2001
WEA Web News No 1, the WEA’s first ‘technology-push’ newsletter to staff
July 2000
Harford, I. (2004). New Directions: Labour and Lifelong Learning
"Sunset over the River Tyne"
A painting by Robert F Watson, c. 1840, showing limited impact of the steam engine after 70 years
Evans, R. A case study on online testing in remote centres
WEA Innovations in Practice, 2004
After the 1996 Manchester Bombing
WEA website of memories, facts and images
15 years of WEA-NW activities in the field of ICT innovation 1990 - 2005