Being human in the era of the fourth industrial revolution and AI - Peter Kearns

The recent PASCAL and PIMA report on Good Active Ageing, which I edited with Denise Reghenzani Kearns, discussed the implications of the convergence of the demographic and technological revolutions. The demographic revolution with ageing populations is occurring at a time when revolutionary changes in digital technologies associated with artificial intelligence, robotics and biotechnologies are impacting on society with this impact certain to increase. How soon superintelligence arrives is a matter of lively discussion.

100 Years and Beyond: Re-framing Radical Adult Education for the Contemporary World

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Our 2019 annual RWF residential weekend will examine the contemporary status of adult education, through the lens of the Ministry of Reconstruction’s seminal 1919 Report on Adult Education.

CR&DALL Themes:

Adult, Vocational and Community-based Learning

EXTENSION: UALL Work and Learning Network Annual Conference 2019

The UALL Work and Learning Network Annual Conference 2019, third notification and extension of call for papers - Learning for, at and through work: capturing workplace learning for transformative Higher Education.

Workshop in Tanzania on ‘Leave no one behind: Making the right to education for adults a reality’

In the context of increasing global inequality, climate crises, continuing gender inequality, and the opportunity provided by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) processes, participants from 9 African countries and Sweden, met in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania from 5-8 March 2019, at a workshop entitled ‘Leave no one behind: Making the right to education for adults a reality’.