Are you an adult education practitioner with experience providing non-formal learning in Northern Ireland?
AONTAS and FALNI are hosting three focus groups to capture practitioner perspectives on how the wide-ranging benefits of adult learning are being captured across the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector. These discussions will form a key part of new research, conducted by the Alliance for Lifelong Learning.
The aim of this research is to arrive at evidence-based solutions to improve data collection and impact measurement of non-formal adult education, which will:
- Help promote the benefits, value and impact of adult learning, especially non-accredited, non-formal and informal learning, to individuals and wider society;
- Support commissioning/funding decisions; and
- Support the monitoring and evaluation of funded programmes.
We encourage practitioners to sign up for all focus groups. More detail on the next focus group is provided below.
Focus Group 2
Date: 10 December
Time: 2pm-3.30pm
Location: Online
In this focus group, participants will delve further into some of the challenges faced by providers in terms of impact capture. We will consider the various models used to capture impact (particularly of non-formal learning) and the kind of data requested by funders.
Focus Group 3
Date: 29 January
Time: 10-11.30am
Location: Online or hybrid (further details to follow)
This final practitioner focus group will provide an opportunity to reflect and elaborate on the research thus far. Initial findings from the practitioner survey will be shared with the group and participants will be asked to share their impressions, highlighting anything about the impact process that may not have been fully captured.
Your can register for one or all of the focus groups below:
