Content area
Full Text
Int Rev Educ (2013) 59:505519
DOI 10.1007/s11159-013-9374-0
Paul Cappon Jarrett Laughlin
Published online: 11 September 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht and UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning 2013
Abstract In the development of learning cities/communities, benchmarking progress is a key element. Not only does it permit cities/communities to assess their current strengths and weaknesses, it also engenders a dialogue within and between cities/communities on the means of enhancing learning conditions. Benchmarking thereby is a potentially motivational tool, energising further progress. In Canada, the Canadian Council on Learning created the worlds rst Composite Learning Index (CLI), the purpose of which is to measure the conditions of learning nationally, regionally and locally. Cities/communities in Canada have utilised the CLI Simulator, an online tool provided by the Canadian Council on Learning, to gauge the change in overall learning conditions which may be expected depending on which particular indicator is emphasised. In this way, the CLI has proved to be both a dynamic and a locally relevant tool for improvement, moreover a strong motivational factor in the development of learning cities/communities. After presenting the main features of the CLI, the authors of this paper sum up the lessons learned during its rst 5 years (20062010) of existence, also with a view to its transferability to other regions. Indeed, the CLI model was already adopted in Europe by the German Bertelsmann foundation in 2010 and has the potential to be useful in many other countries as well.
Keywords Lifelong learning Learning cities Learning communities Indicators
Composite learning index Canadian Council on Learning Measures Outcomes
P. Cappon (&)
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, 120 University, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canadae-mail: [email protected]
J. Laughlin
Assembly of First Nations, Ottawa, ON, Canada e-mail: [email protected]
Canadas Composite Learning Index: A path towards learning communities
123
506 P. Cappon, J. Laughlin
Rsum LIndice composite de lapprentissage au Canada : une voie vers les communauts apprenantes Lvaluation comparative des progrs raliss est essentiel dans la cration de cits et de communauts apprenantes. Elle permet non seulement aux cits et aux communauts de jauger leurs forces et leurs faiblesses actuelles, elle dclenche en outre un dialogue au sein des cits et des communauts concernes ainsi quentre elles sur les moyens damliorer les conditions...