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The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education
acts as ambassador for adult learning in this country, conducting research, lobbying, holding conferences and offering information to all comers.
Their website has obviously had some considerably time and resourses expended on it,
making it a breeze to navigate and to see where you are.
Little touches make this site particularly user-friendly; for example, web addresses are given for all links
so that you can note them and look later.
Wherever possible, information is given in different formats.
In the Information Services section their "Briefing Sheets" are available as straight webpages and as PDF files, and in line with their belief of wider access advice is given for the partially sighted.
The Briefing Sheets are short well-written documents on subjects such as "What is Lifelong Learning?", Student non-completion (drop-out), and Mailgroups. Evidence and sources for further reserach accompany most.
The Acronyms page (also in the Information section) is invaluable in today's abbreviation clogged age, and I acted on their suggestion and saved it to my 'Favourites'. The other place that's definitely woth a look is the Links page.
Lots of interesting sites here, though sadly not ours (although we do appear in the members section).
A good place to start for most education topics, although the site is currently a bit short on information specifically to do with distance and open forms of learning.
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