Learning Innovation for Disengaged Learners - the reAct project (original) (raw)

The reAct project is an innovative learning approach developed and used to re-motivate the disengaged from education and learning to connect to lifelong learning practices. These youngsters constitute a considerable social problem in Europe and the aim of the project is to find ways to recover the intrinsic motivation to learn and thereby improve the opportunities for participation. Key in this innovative strategy is self-organized learning, the learner in control of the learning process. The usage of media in the methodology is crucial and links to the concept of a user-configurable Personal Learning Environment (PLE). The main issues are: can reAct change the attitude, what are the benefits and drawbacks of this self-organized learning approach and do the ICT tools support these processes? Research shows that more flexible education and training systems with a variety of recognized learning pathways and combined with individual and school-level support offer more educational oppor...

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