Conferences
2022 Conference
Connection is at the core of what we do, and it's something we want to talk about more. We invite you to consider what connection means for you, and what reconnecting to learners could mean in the future.
Come ready to discuss this and other aspects of your practices, and share your stories as we move toward a brand new era of adult education.
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2021 Conference
Organising a conference in the current climate presents new challenges as we transition from lockdowns to opening ups. This year we need to be inspired more than ever and we encourage potential presenters to share your successes with us all.
Our conference will be online again but with a little difference – we will run it over two days. However, we won’t have the possibility to attend face-to-face at Angliss Conference Centre unfortunately. Nevertheless we look forward to meeting you 25-26 November 2021.
Presenters will be able to attend the Conference for free. Stand by for announcements in the coming weeks on conference charges.
2020 VALBEC Conference
​What was intended for the conference in May needs some adjusting for the conference in December. What an incredible time we’re having! And it may well stay incredible well into the new year. By then we’ll be seasoned explorers of virtual pedagogy, and experts in engaging tired and stressed students.
In 2020 we would like practitioners to tell us about their journey in these unprecedented times.
2019 VALBEC Conference
The 2019 theme – Resilience: connect, educate, empower – invited us to celebrate and explore how teachers and students achieve in education.
- Connect – with colleagues, community and students to succeed in a new skill, or lay down the foundations for something new
- Educate – by the development and delivery of good learning experiences for students or staff.
- Empower – demonstrate how learning has enabled students or colleagues to utilise their resilience to achieve their goals.
2018 VALBEC Conference
Workplaces are said to be in the middle of a ‘fourth industrial revolution’, following the earlier transformations brought about by steam, electricity and digitisation. It is often referred to simply as ‘Industry 4.0’. The emerging ‘smart’ factories in Industry 4.0 increasingly rely upon automation augmented by artificial intelligence, the crowdsourcing of tasks, and the use of freelance workers engaged in micro-tasking.
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