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EPALE (Electronic Platform for Adult Learning in Europe) is a new online community and resource for adult learning professionals in Europe. It aims to provide a centralized place for sharing materials, best practices, and networking. Based on user surveys, EPALE is developing the site to include a calendar of events, news, resources, and community forums. The platform also aims to be multilingual, with priorities on English content and machine translation to allow information sharing across languages. The site is being launched in phases with user feedback, with the goal of connecting adult education professionals throughout Europe.
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- 1. EPALE Electronic Platformfor Adult Learning in Europe
- 2. EPALE Electronic Platformfor Adult Learning in Europe What is EPALE? • A new multilingual community of adult learning professionals • An online resource of adult learning material • An area to share and exchange best practice with other adult education professionals in Europe. • A networking tool • Part of the European Commission’s ongoing commitment to improving the quality of adult learning provision in Europe.
- 3. EPALE Electronic Platformfor Adult Learning in Europe Current Status: • Survey site launched March. • Survey closed and results analysed May – June. • Building the site to meet the needs of the users over the summer • Version 2 launched
- 4. EPALE Electronic Platformfor Adult Learning in Europe When respondents were asked if they could easily find the information they needed on Adult Learning there was an equal split reinforcing the need to have one place where all resources will be available across Europe. 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50% I Stongly Agree I Agree I Disagree I Strongly disagree
- 5. EPALE Electronic Platformfor Adult Learning in Europe Users confirmed that a calendar of events, news, relevant resources, partner search facilities and an active community was important to them 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90%100% A Calendar of relevant events and training courses across Europe Publications & news on relevant EU policies & activities Interactive community (i.e. user-generated content Other adult education resources (see next question) from across Europe Finding partners & exchanges) Top priority(1 only) High priority Low priority Not interested at all
- 6. EPALE Electronic Platformfor Adult Learning in Europe Approach to Multilingualism: • 87% of respondents said that they were comfortable reading English in addition to their first language • 50% of users would prefer many pieces of content, summarised briefly in many languages. • 30% thought machine translation would be useful • Almost half thought it would be 'better than nothing', suggesting significant support for machine translation if no other means is possible.
- 7. EPALE Electronic Platformfor Adult Learning in Europe Site version 2 includes: • Main pages (home, about, contact us) • Calendar of events • Newsroom • EPALE glossary • Interactive FAQs • Blog • eNewsletter
- 8. EPALE Electronic Platformfor Adult Learning in Europe Coming up: • Site version 3 launch including partners search feature launched later in the year • Site version 4 launched in early 2015 • EPALE launch conference March 2015
- 9. EPALE Electronic Platformfor Adult Learning in Europe Website: ec.europa.eu/epale UK Updates - Adult Learning in the UK brings you EPALE updates specific to your country. Twitter: EPALE_UK Facebook: www.facebook.com/EPALE.UK
Editor's Notes
- #3 EPALE is a new platform aimed at adult learning professionals across Europe. The site really is pan European. All areas of the site will be available in the 6 primary EU languages of EN, FR, DE, IT, ES, PL and the high value content will be translated into all 24 official languages. There will also be national pages, in national languages managed by a National Support Service. EPALE is a community site, with a bottom up approach to ensure that the needs of the users are met. The site was launched with a survey of the users needs and I will come on to this shortly. Due to the number of features the site will have, it is being developed in stages. By the end of next year, EPALE will have a calendar of events, a resource centre, a news room, a partner search facility, a jobs board and national pages for each participating country as well as 5 thematic pages addressing the important AL topics of: Learner support, Learning Environments, Life Skills, Quality and Policies, strategies and financing. All of this is managed by the Central Support Service here at Ecorys in conjunction with our partner Intrasoft, who is responsible for the technical development and implementation of the platform.
- #4 As mentioned the first version of the site was launched in March with a survey. The aim of the survey was to give us more information on what the users wanted for then site, including what approach should be taken towards multilingualism. The survey closed in May and a full analysis of the results have been done.
- #5 53%) disagreed or strongly disagreed with the statement ‘It is easy to find information on Adult Learning’ 47% agreed
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