"We do not stop playing because we grow old,
we grow old because we stop playing."

 

Portugal could not be a better place for our last project meeting:
Relaxing, Sunny, Friendly
The country is living through a full recovery from the crushing financial crisis, and looking to a bright future by investing in education and research.
In the traditional city of Braga close to Guimaraes, considered as the birthplace of Portugal, and a 40 minutes drive away from Porto, a financial centre in the Northern part of the country, we got in touch with more informal participants of the project.

As we enter into phase 3 of our “Exchange of Good Practices” project, the issues that we identified as key concepts to clarify the use of Learning Games have been elaborated on by our partners.

One of the primary objectives of our project is to understand elements of Learning Games in the light of an (alternative) discourse that will enable us to introduce new concepts to learn better how to use Games for Learning.

Validation is for every single project in adult education a question mark and since every project is an answer to needs and a call for improvement, quality, qualification we can not avoid the Meta questions about Validation. Who validates? What? When? Why? How?
The thematic seminar "Validation of non-formal and informal learning opportunities for special targets groups” organised by the Finish National Agency brought new proposals and at the same time further questions.
In this article, I try to analyse the proposed ideas from the Learning Games project perspective.

The project Learning Games is supported by research. In this section we are featuring research findings regarding the topic of learning games that our partners have published but also interesting findings in the field from external sources.

Ilka Birova is one of our strategic partners in our project Learning Games. She is Professor at the Department of Russian language at Sofia University, St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria where she also got her doctorate. For many years Ilka has been using games as a method in foreign language teaching and is an acknowledged expert in the field.

  1. Learning Games in Irkutsk