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Learning Link: May 5, 2008

Profile in Learning: Shelagh Rogers

Known for her keen interview skills and larger-than-life laugh, Shelagh Rogers has become an integral part of the morning for millions of radio listeners across Canada. Now, with her tenure on Sounds Like Canada slated to come to a close at the end of May, the celebrated host looks back at the role that lifelong learning has played in guiding her nearly three-decade career. Go to article » 

Question scans

Find out about the range of research that exists on a given question by consulting CCL's series of thematic question scans on diverse learning issues, by title and by topic.  Go to scans » 

CCL podcasts

CCL's audio series offer Canadians across the country information on the go. The Minerva Lecture Series are one-hour presentations that illustrate how research can inform and affect learning. Practically Speaking is a series of articles featuring promising practices on learning, told by their creators and participants.

Go to podcast series » 

More CCL news

• What's so special about learning to read in a second language? Dr. Esther Geva from OISE/University of Toronto, the sixth scholar in CCL's Minerva Lecture Series, addresses this question
• CCL-funded report, Mature Students in the Persistence Puzzle, examines factors that affect mature students' successes in pursuing post-secondary education and studies adults’ unique and varied educational goals and aspirations
• Examining the Impact of Learning Objects in Secondary School, a new CCL-funded report evaluates the effects of interactive web-based learning tools in secondary-school classrooms
• Descriptions of CCL-funded research projects in early childhood learning, health and learning, and Aboriginal learning are now online

Reminders

• Register online for the 2008 Campbell Collaboration (C2) Speaking Truth to Power: Evidence for Decisions in Education, Social Welfare, and Criminal Justice, May 12–14, 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 
• CCL's Work and Learning Knowledge Centre is hosting its 3rd annual symposium, May 14–15, 2008, in Ottawa
• Computer lab workshops help graduate students be more effective when conducting research, May 30, 2008
• The third annual symposium, Toward a culture of adult learning in Canada, hosted by CCL's Adult Learning Knowledge Centre in St. John’s, Newfoundland on June 23–25, 2008, will focus on the role of learning in developing community sustainability
• Find out more about the Adult Learning Knowledge Centre's 2007–2008 Speakers Program. New speakers added monthly

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