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In eigener Sache – On the road but coming back

September 17th, 2013 by Pekka Kamarainen

This is just a short note “in eigener Sache” (in my own interest).

Some time has passed since my latest blogs and much has happened in the meantime. However, I have missed part of it due to a short holiday break. Then, I have been travelling a couple of weeks on missions. Unfortunately writing blogs during my travels is not one of my strengths. So, I need to get my feet on the ground to catch up or to wrap up.

Here is a short ToDo list for blogs to be written and themes to be covered:

1) The fieldwork in the Learning Layers project in the construction sector has taken several steps further. This needs to be reported.

2) The sessions that focused on the Learning Layers project at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER’13 in Istanbul) were successful. Also, there were other interesting sessions that triggered follow-up measures in terms of knowledge sharing (and practice sharing).

3) The consortium meeting of the Learning Layers (still going on in Paphos, Cyprus) has pushed us some steps forward and gives us insights into the results and achievements of the first years. This needs to be discussed.

So, although I am on the road, I know that I need to get back to writing pretty soon …

Acknowledgements. This work is supported by the European Commission under the FP7 project LAYERS (no. 318209), http://www.learning-layers.eu.

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