COLLO Learning Cities Series
COLLO's Learning Cities Series
Mobilizing Communities through Learning
A Learning Cities Four Part Series
Session Overviews and Resources
Session 1. "Learning Cities: Critical to the Fight for Social Justice"
Wednesday November 18, 2020
10:00 - 11:30 am Eastern Time
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More than 200 cities in 40 countries have chosen to become a learning city, defined by UNESCO as one that "effectively mobilizes its resources in every sector to promote inclusive learning from basic to higher education." COLLO is conducting a set of free Zoom virtual symposiums to explore strategies to develop and build Learning Cities.
What are learning cities? How might they be resources for social justice? Participate in this FREE online Symposium to explore whether creation of a Learning City may provide some answers and some hope about how you can help navigate the uncertain future your community faces reimagining adult education in the post COVID-19 era that meets the needs of all.
Session 2. “Learning Cities in Action!"
Wednesday January 27, 2021
10:00 - 11:15 am Eastern Time
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In these tumultuous times, how do Learning Cities practice and promote values of kindness, compassion and respect?
How can ecosystems of lifelong learning contribute to “building back better?”
- Annalisa L. Raymer, moderator, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Download the Presentation - Séamus Ó Tuama, University College Cork, Cork City, Ireland
- Denis Barrett, Cork Learning City Co-Ordinator, Cork City, Ireland
Download the Presentation - Madeline Typadis Snow, Lowell City of Learning, Lowell, MA
Download the Presentation - Lex Denis, Drucker Institute & South Bend, IN
- Maria Liu Wong, City Seminary of New York, New York City, NY
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Session 3: "Research About and for Building Learning Cities"
Thursday June 3, 2021
7:00 - 9:30 am PDT (New York: 10:00 am EDT; Ireland: 3:00 pm IST)
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As the world emerges from the pandemic, communities have the opportunity to reframe their approaches to lifelong learning and education. Today we stand on the brink of the future -envisioning redevelopment. How might learning cities - ecosystems of lifelong learning - contribute to building a world based on social justice and economic revitalization? In these tumultuous times, how do learning cities practice and promote values of kindness, compassion and respect?
Organized by:
The Coalition of Lifelong Learning Organizations, COLLO
Linda Morris, President; Annalisa Raymer, Cornell university; Christy Rhodes, East Carolina University
The European-North American Network of Learning Cities
Denis Barrett, Cork Learning City Coordinator
Asia-Europe Meeting - Education and Research Hub on Lifelong Learning (ASEM LLL Hub)
Séamus Ó Tuama, Chair, LLL Hub- University College, Cork; Joni Hendrick, University College, Cork
Session 4: "Building Your Learning Cities Framework"
Friday April 29, 2022
10:00 - 11:30 am EDT (Ireland: 3:00 pm GMT+1)
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As the world emerges from the pandemic, communities have the opportunity to reframe their approaches to lifelong learning and education. Today we stand on the brink of the future - Are you interested in changing your community for the better? Would you like to play a role in re-envisioning your community’s future for the better and creating a society built on cooperation and learning?
If you answered “yes” to those questions, the Coalition of Lifelong Learning Organizations (COLLO) cordially invites you to view the concluding symposium in the four-part Learning Cities Series held on Friday, April 29, 2022. During this final session, entitled Building Your Learning Cities Framework, panelists shared the steps they took to develop and nurture the learning cities of Cork, Ireland; Manizales, Colombia; and Lowell, Massachusetts. Colleagues from UNESCO’s Institute of Lifelong Learning (UIL) will give an overview of the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC), present the website and publications, and give a little more insight on their work.