The Center for Literacy
Learning Events
Each year, The Centre for Literacy hosts learning events on topics connected to the field of adult literacy and essential skills. The largest of these are our annual Summer and Fall Institutes, which focus on current trends and issues and draw participants from around the world. Other events – workshops, lectures, symposia - are built around the needs of community partners in response to specific requests for training or information.
Summer Institute 2012, Workplace Literacy & Essential Skills: Shaping a New Learning Culture
Institute | Last updated: February 15, 2012
The 2012 institute will focus on questions about the roles of context and culture as factors in program outcomes. Early bird registration until May 1, 2012. Registration is limited to 100. For more information, read the brochure.
Participation, proficiency and practice: What the research says [Webinar: Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 13:30 – 15:00 EST]
Prresentation | Last updated: February 14, 2012
Professor Steve Reder, Portland State University, presented findings from his decade-long Longitudinal Study of Adult Learning (LSAL) on the impacts of adult literacy programs on learners' lives and the implications for LES policy and practice.
Recording of the webinar: [Streaming] [Download]
Presentation: Please note, this PDF file is rather large (14.45 MB)
Webinar on PIAAC Feb. 15, 2012/Webinaire sur l’Enquête PEICA: jeudi le 16 février 2012
Prresentation | Last updated: February 21, 2012
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Recording and presentation from the English webinar (February 15, 2012)
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Enregistrement et présentation du webinaire en français (le 16 février, 2012)
Embedding WLES in General and Vocational Training from an Australian Perspective [Webinar]
Prresentation | Last updated: January 30, 2012
Presented by Ann Kelly on March 21, 2011: A look at how embedded workplace literacy and essential skills (WLES) teaching and learning is defined and practiced in Australia, with a discussion on how this compares with policy and practice in other countries.
IALS Fall Institute 2011 in Banff, AB
Institute | Last updated: January 30, 2012
We have posted Think Papers, Country Stories, and some Presentations, Photos, and Questions and Answers for the Institute, which explored the story of the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) and its successors in Canada and other countries. It traced the shift from “literacy” to “skills” to “competencies”, and explored evolving methodology and the impacts of the international literacy assessments over two decades on policy and practice.
We have started a blog on the Institute at https://ialsinst.wordpress.com/
Possible Overlaps between ESL and Literacy Issues in WLES Assessments and Provision [Webinar]
Prresentation | Last updated: January 30, 2012
Presented by Anne McKeown: A snapshot of what role ESL/ESOL is playing in the UK’s literacy/numeracy agenda in the context of workplace training, with a discussion of how the UK situation resembles or differs from the contexts of the webinar participants.
Supporting learning disabilities and special needs
Prresentation | Last updated: January 30, 2012
Resources for learners (and their teachers). Presented at the annual QPAT convention in November 2008.
Health and Literacy: Constructing Curriculum for Health-Care Providers (2008)
Institute | Last updated: January 30, 2012
The Centre for Literacy, Bow Valley College, and the Health and Learning Knowledge Centre (CCL) co-sponsored this three-day institute in Calgary on October 16-18, 2008. This Learning Institute set out to examine how to design health literacy curriculum for health care providers. Read more
Free Assistive Technology for People with Learning Disabilities
Workshop | Last updated: January 30, 2012
It is said that 10 to 15 percent of the population has a learning disability. With such a high number of students needing additional support, it can become very costly to provide assistive technology to them. This workshop demonstrates that assistive technology doesn’t have to break the bank. The software covered in this workshop is completely free and without limitations.
Adult Literacy and Television: Has a familiar tool been overlooked? (2000)
Institute | Last updated: January 30, 2012
Participants from around the world met at the 11th Annual Summer Institute of The Centre for Literacy to consider how television has been used in many countries to create public awareness and to teach literacy skills to adults. This Institute brought together some of the pioneers in the field to meet with practitioners and policy-makers, share their experiences, and explore directions for the future.
