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Adult Learning Collaboratory (ALC)
Where Industry, Academia & Policy Converge
Engaging a Dynamic Ecosystem of Enterprises, Education & Training Institutes, Educators, Researchers & Policymakers to Co-Create and Co-Produce Solutions.
Addressing the 3 Key Challenges Facing Adult Learning Today
A groundbreaking initiative by the Institute for Adult Learning (IAL), the Adult Learning Collaboratory (ALC) is a first-of-its-kind social innovation to energise the adult learning landscape in Singapore & beyond. Set up to tackle complex challenges in adult learning, the ALC is a collaborative platform with an open-innovation ecosystem involving diverse stakeholders, including enterprises, education and training institutes, educators, researchers and policymakers. Drawing on IAL’s body of research, these stakeholders will engage in co-framing of issues, co-creation of innovative solutions, and iterative cycles of experimentation in real world settings.
As a start, the ALC will focus on seeking innovative solutions to address three key challenges:
Digital Capability Development for an AI-Augmented Future
Empowering workers in the digital age by addressing challenges in evolving their occupational practice through digital tools, and co-developing a digital capability development approach that supports upskilling and enhances organisational performance.
New-Age Business Transformation
Rejuvenating businesses by activating the workforce to grow businesses in new ways, thereby strengthening the pipeline of strong enterprises and quality jobs in the economy.
Future-Oriented Pedagogies
Enabling practitioners in the Training and Adult Education (TAE) sector with future-oriented pedagogies to support them to cultivate learners who are able to work with the emergent, unknown, and complex.
Ongoing Projects
Three Key Features Distinguish the Open Innovation Ecosystem of the ALC
Use-Centric Co-Creation
Final users of products, services, or any type of innovation are involved as active participants in the co-creation, proliferation and sustained use of the adult learning innovations.
Research-Backed Diagnosis and Insights
Collaboratory partners have the benefit of drawing upon the research knowledge built up by researchers in IAL and elsewhere to diagnose the root of an adult learning challenge and identify possible solutions for testing and experimentation.
Real-World Testing and Experimentation
All innovations are subjected to rigorous tests in authentic settings to achieve high-fidelity with its intended use. These tests undergo iterative cycles for further refinement to meet specific use needs.