A new article on W-o-W has just been published: The old fear of the end of new work itself  by Joerg Markowitsch. We all look forward to the end of the working day, but not the end of work itself. The fear of automation and the end of work is an old topos, as evidenced by industrial films from the 1950s...

On 21 October at 1330 local time in Brussels, Professor Ellen Boeren, CR&DALL core member together with University of Glasgow colleague Dr Thanh Dong Nguyen will be presenting at a webinar concerned with on professional learning communities (PLCs) where the results of their systematic international literature review on PLCs in the global south funded by VVOB will be presented together with practical stories.

We are pleased to announce a webinar on 11 October at 1500 (BST) in which the UNESCO Chair in Chair in Community-based Research & Social Responsibility in Higher Education, is co-operating with the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Research and Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning (CR&DALL) to present a Pre-COP26 Webinar: Higher Education, Knowledge Democracy and Sustainability.

The Education Research Institute at Seoul National University and the Institute for Innovation and Coexistence Education Research (BK21 FOUR) is holding the ICER (International Conference on Education Research) which will take place online on October 21-22, 2021. The theme of the conference is “Reconceptualizing Education in Times of Global Crisis”.