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Knowledge Mobilization Working Group (KMG)

Mandate

To assist the Adult Learning Knowledge Centre with making recommendations to CCL regarding research priorities, providing leadership and support to practice-grounded research development, and facilitating the development of research capacity. Keyword = Research

Responsibilities

The Knowledge Mobilization Working Group is responsible for helping the Adult Learning Knowledge Centre:

• facilitate opportunities for researchers and practitioners to work together on research development;
• facilitate research development that is practice-grounded, community-based, participatory, and action-oriented;
• communicate information about current research to practitioners and policy-makers;
• identify and provide (where possible) information resources to assist with building research capacity among organizations and practitioners;
• develop recommendations for research priorities for next round of CCL research projects; and
• set objectives and strategies related to knowledge mobilization.

Members

Jim Sharpe, Chair
Tara Fenwick
Judith Holton
Nancy Jackson
Brenda King
Thomas Mengel
Yvon Laberge
Kjell Rubenson
Kathleen Flanagan, Coordinator of Adult Learning Knowledge Centre
Danielle Charron, Assistant Coordinator of Adult Learning Knowledge Centre

Monitoring and Reporting Working Group (MARG)

Mandate

To assist the Adult Learning Knowledge Centre by reviewing, developing, communicating, and monitoring data on indicators and benchmarks related to adult learning issues. Keyword = data

Responsibilities

The Monitoring and Reporting Working Group is responsible for helping the Adult Learning Knowledge Centre:

• develop indicators on adult learning for CCL’s Composite Learning Index, in collaboration with CCL;
• communicate methods for documenting, monitoring, and measuring success in adult learning programs across Canada; and
• set objectives and strategies related to monitoring and reporting issues.

Members

Tim Andrew, Chair - Third Age Centre
Deborah Burns - Executive Director, NB Associate of Career Colleges
Brigid Hayes - Consultant
Betty MacDonald - Director, Continuing Education, Saint Mary's U.
Linda MacDonald - Associate Director, Continuing Education, Saint Mary’s University
Audrey Penner - Director, Learning Support, Adult Education, Holland College
Rick Williams - President, Praxis Research & Consulting Inc.
Judith Potter - Dean, Continuing Education, McGill University
Nadine Valk - Program Specialist, Cross-Cutting Themes, CCL
Kathleen Flanagan - Coordinator of Adult Learning Knowledge Centre
Danielle Charron - Assistant Coordinator of Adult Learning Knowledge Centre

Knowledge Exchange and Communications Working Group (KEG)

Mandate

To assist the Adult Learning Knowledge Centre with developing and implementing objectives, strategies, policies, and activities related to knowledge exchange and communications. Keyword = exchange of knowledge

Responsibilities

The Knowledge Exchange and Communications Working Group is responsible for helping the Adult Learning Knowledge Centre:

• raise the profile of adult learning in Canada;
• develop, among Canadians, a better understanding of the role of adult learning in economic productivity, personal development, civic engagement, and social cohesion;
• design and implement tools and mechanisms for knowledge exchange and communications;
• develop a communications plan; and
• set objectives and strategies related to knowledge exchange and communications.

Members

Ann Marie Downie, Chair - Executive Director, Literacy Nova Scotia Chair of KEG
Colette Arsenault - Training and Community Development Consultant, Collège Acadie Î.-P.-É.
Diane Burt - Principal, New Brunswick Community College St. Andrews Campus
Katherine d'Entremont - Chief Executive Director, National Adult Literacy Database Inc.
Roger Doiron - Président, Fédération d’alphabétisation du N-B
Joan Hicks - Board member, Metro Council on Continuing Education
Heather Patterson -Continuous Learning, Mount Allison University
Léonie Bouvier - Senior Communications Specialist, CCL
Deborah Monette - Knowledge Exchange Specialist, CCL
Kathleen Flanagan - Coordinator of Adult Learning Knowledge Centre
Danielle Charron - Assistant Coordinator of Adult Learning Knowledge Centre
Darren McLeod - Communications and Knowledge Exchange Specialist of Adult Learning Knowledge Centre

Community Connections Working Group (CC)

Mandate

To assist the Adult Learning Knowledge Centre in creating, fostering, and enhancing regional and national networks in research-based and practice-based fields of adult learning in Canada, in order to provide multi-leveled forums for discussing and advancing adult learning. Keyword = networks.

Responsibilities

The Community Connections Working Group is responsible for helping the Adult Learning Knowledge Centre:

• develop recruitment strategies for the consortium, in keeping with ALKC’s commitment to inclusion, diversity, and accessibility;
• develop relationships among diverse regional and national groups in the adult learning communities, including researchers, practitioners, adult learners, and other stakeholders;
• identify practical and creative approaches in order to develop partnerships across potential barriers of language, geography, disability, sector, and area of interest, as well as other potential logistical and conceptual barriers;
• identify ways to create ALKC as a “go-to” place for knowledge and leadership on adult learning issues and activities; and
• set objectives and strategies related to network building and community outreach.

Members

Joan Hicks, Co-Chair
Nadine Sookermany, Co-Chair
Lorette Chiasson
Tom Dawe
Hélène Fournier
Sandra Germain
Elaine Healey
Anne Leslie
Sunday Miller
Penelope Pacey
Kathleen Flanagan -Coordinator of Adult Learning Knowledge Centre
Danielle Charron - Assistant Coordinator of Adult Learning Knowledge Centre