LLLWeek 2021
Discover all the events and register for as many as you wish!
With LLLP | 15.30 – 17.30 | >>> REGISTER
To kick-start the LLLWeek 2021, we invite you to discover the Lifelong Learning Platform and our annual position paper on ‘The changing nature of evaluation in education and its impact on learners’ wellbeing’. Be prepared for an interactive discussion – and for the Reception that will follow!
With EFIL, OBESSU, ATEE, EEE-FYU | 10.00 – 11.30 | >>> REGISTER
This event aims to explore the specific case of assessment of learning outcomes of study abroad in upper secondary school, to reflect on the need for teachers to implement formative and flexible assessment.
With OBESSU | 12.00 – 14.00 | >>> REGISTER
This online event will be an opportunity to bring together student representatives and policymakers, to give the former a platform to share ideas, perspectives and experiences. Its final aim is that of collecting insights and experiences from a variety of stakeholders for a manifesto tackling the issue of well-being in education and assessments.
With DARE | 15.00 – 16.30 | >>> REGISTER
Through this workshop, we ask what a pedagogy for wellbeing in the digital sphere should include. What could education and policy do in order to make people feel well in this digital transformation? In the psycho-social domain as well as in regard to learning about digital transformation?
With DLearn | 16.30 – 18.00 | >>> REGISTER
Assessment of learning outcomes and recognition of skills go hand in hand in the workplace. This event will pave the way for transitioning from traditional skills to digital skills.
With ECSWE | 17.00 – 18.30 | >>> REGISTER
This workshop seeks to map the blind spots of DigComp with regards to well-being; share a good practice example of a competence-based Waldorf media curriculum; disseminate and collect ideas for a coordinated approach to digital media education between teachers and parents when it comes to preserving the well-being of pupils in schools.
With DARE | 11.00 – 12.30 | >>> REGISTER
Civil society’s role in European societies is invaluable. And yet, its members and workers are an under-acknowledged gear to democratic processes. Through this workshop, we want to shed light on their wellbeing, their working and economic conditions, to provide recommendations on how to ensure that they operate in the best environments.
With LLLP and EAEA | 14.30 – 16.00 | >>> REGISTER
Education and training are considered key to addressing the Twin Transitions, labour-market changes, and for broader societal issues for instance related to digital media literacy too. However, education and training institutions and providers will only be able to deliver on these expectations if there are the means to do so.
With EPA | 16.30 – 18.00 | >>> REGISTER
This workshop will aim to give parents the information and tools at hand that can support their own learning in this field but more specifically help them to contribute to their children’s media education and online wellbeing.
With SOLIDAR Foundation and ESU | 11.00 – 12.30 | >>> REGISTER
This event highlights how the current goal of education, and implicitly of evaluation, has been reframed to put the interests of the labour market and businesses ahead of the well-being of learners. It seeks to provide an overview of the process of commodification and privatization of education, using the way evaluation has been conceived at the moment as a case study.
With EfVET | 14.00 – 15.00 | >>> REGISTER
This workshop will examine how EU-OSHA’s current Healthy Workplaces Campaign: Lighten the Load provides an ideal opportunity for VET and Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) professionals across Europe to create new partnerships and synergies around the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders and the promotion of wellbeing for today’s and tomorrow’s workforce.
With EUROCLIO | 15.00 – 16.30 | >>> REGISTER
In this active workshop, we will discuss with participants and panellists how formative assessment can become a tool to improve and personalise the learning process. In particular, we will focus on the interaction between students and teachers in the process of formative assessment: how do we let students in on the secrets of formative assessment? How do we keep assessment an open process?
With L4WB-F and ECSWE | 10.00 – 12.00 | >>> REGISTER
This event will illustrate with real-life examples how evaluation in education can change for the better and how enhanced well-being can be demonstrated across the learning community constituted by a school. Interested to develop the conversation further? Have a look at the Post QoC Agenda, to start right after this event!
Why a lifelong learning week?
Lifelong learning covers education and training across all ages and in all areas of life. It enables citizen’s emancipation and full participation in society in its civic, political, social and economic dimensions. A humanistic and holistic approach of learning, from the cradle to the grave, is of continued relevance in today’s world and a viable foundation for the rethinking of education. The Lifelong Learning Week aims to raise awareness on the fact that lifelong learning answers many challenges of modern societies. Fostering a comprehensive approach to education is especially important when it comes to building learning societies, by making sure that our citizens are fully equipped with the competences they need in the 21st century. The paradigm shift to lifelong learning means recognising that learning is taking place in various contexts – be it formal, non-formal and informal. It implies changing the ways we provide and receive education, the ways we assess learning and the ways we work and live together.
Format
During the LLLWeek, participants will be taken into the LLLP’s annual theme: ‘The changing nature of evaluation in education and its impact on learners’ wellbeing‘. We will subsequently dwell on the policy framework that provides the tools useful to read our society and the impact it bears on learnes. Different approaches can be deepened, as they all build up to the same overarching objective:
- New ways to value learning
- For learners’ and educators’ wellbeing
- Rethinking learning outcomes
In fact, all of these will contribute to the goal that the Lifelong Learning Platform has always been pursuing: better societies through education and lifelong learning.
What are assessment, evaluation, and testing? Why are they important? What are different ways of approaching them? What are the challenges?
Educational assessment or educational evaluation[1] is the systematic process of documenting and using empirical data on the knowledge, skill, attitudes, and beliefs to refine programs and improve student learning.
What does wellbeing mean in education and training? Why is it important? What impacts wellbeing in education and training (external vs internal factors)? What are the challenges?
According to the Council of Europe: Wellbeing is the experience of health and happiness. It includes mental and physical health, physical and emotional safety, and a feeling of belonging, sense of purpose, achievement and success. Wellbeing is a broad concept and covers a range of psychological and physical abilities.
Is there a correlation between learners’ wellbeing and assessments/evaluation? If so, what is it? How does it differ according to assessment/evaluation methods?
The role of the learning outcomes: What is the impact on wellbeing? What is the impact on an assessment? What is the impact on teaching methods?
Learning outcomes specify what learners’ new behaviours will be after a learning experience. They state the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that the students will gain through your course. Learning outcomes begin with an action verb and describe something observable or measurable.
“Lifelong learning is the key for the long-term sustainable recovery of Europe. We need to invest in people and make the EU the global hub for education and learning for all, by developing high-quality standards, evaluating them and ensuring their full implementation across Europe. Accessible, qualitative and inclusive lifelong learning are central features in providing wellbeing in education and training for learners and educators”.
Come join us and discuss “The changing nature of evaluation in education and its impact on learners’ wellbeing” with MEPs, representatives of the European institutions, civil society organisations, practitioners and other education stakeholders!
What events are in person?
The Launch event will be both in-person (in Brussels) and online. The hybrid format will allow for both personal interaction and larger participation! The following Reception will be fully in-person because a drink and a chat are better face-to-face!
What events are online?
Everything else! While less personal, this will allow you to participate in all the events regardless of where you’re based! Registering is as easy as clicking on the banners below. Sign up to as many events as you wish, and be a part of the 11th edition of the Lifelong Learning Week.