Online learning platforms and resources in adult education and training: new findings from four European countries

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02601370.2024.2358896?needAccess=true" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02601370.2024.2358896?needAccess=true</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2024.2358896" target="_blank" >10.1080/02601370.2024.2358896</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Online learning platforms and resources in adult education and training: new findings from four European countries

Original language description

Digitisation represents one of the key directions of adult education and training in the post-COVID-19 times, but direct empirical evidence of its scope among learners is rather scarce after 2021. Therefore, the general aim of this article is to investigate the current state of the use of online learning platforms and resources in adult education and training throughout Europe. For this purpose, we utilise data from a dedicated survey in the Czech Republic, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom (n = 4,000) from 2022, which cover a wide range of digitalisation as measured by the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI). Our findings are consistent with DESI in the overall levels of online learning across the four countries. Beyond this, we provide two main findings. First, the patterns of digitalisation are different in formal (FAE) and non-formal adult education (NFE). We identify two corresponding modes of platformization based on how and how much online learning platforms and resources are used. Second, factors of participation in online learning differ in some regards from factors of participation in AET in general. Therefore, online learning seems to constitute a new layer mediating participation in AET, possibly introducing new forms of inequalities.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Lifelong Education

ISSN

0260-1370

e-ISSN

1464-519X

Volume of the periodical

43

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

417-431

UT code for WoS article

001232105700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85194533954