As no one seems to know what outdoor learning is for, the Institute for Outdoor Learning [IOL] is to be congratulated for confronting the issue head on at its 2016 conference on 14-15th\u00a0October.<\/p>\n
Valerie Hannon<\/a> will be the keynote speaker. \u00a0She\u00a0is a former adviser to the DfE\u00a0and co-founder of the Innovation Unit. \u00a0Her publication \u2018What is Learning For?<\/em>\u2019 (Yours<\/a> for $38) has inspired\u00a0the conference, it seems. \u00a0Hannon will examine what \"need to be global, local, inter and intra-personal purposes of learning in the future\", which seems to cover the bases nicely.<\/p>\n Andy Robinson, CEO of IOL says:<\/p>\n \"We were inspired by Valerie\u2019s paper\u00a0to examine the relevance of our sector today [and] are thrilled that Valerie has agreed to help us explore this topic from the viewpoint of cutting edge educational practices. We propose to also examine these four purposes within our master classes, workshops and sessions in a practical and hands on way.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This year's conference is also a \"joined-up affair\" as IOL has collaborated with AHOEC \u2013 the Association of Heads of Outdoor Education Centres (which I confess not to have heard of). \u00a0The two organisations will both hold individual specialist days, coming together on the Friday for keynote session and other workshops and masterclasses. \u00a0Not so much joined-up, then, as loosely-coupled. \u00a0Looking forward to it already.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As no one seems to know what outdoor learning is for, the Institute for Outdoor Learning [IOL] is to be congratulated for confronting the issue head on at its 2016 conference on 14-15th\u00a0October. Valerie Hannon will be the keynote speaker....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}