Evaluating lifelong learning networks
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The focus of this short article is on the interim evaluation of Lifelong Learning Networks (LLNs) that the Centre for Higher Education Research and Information of the Open University was commissioned to undertake by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) during 2007 (HEFCE, 2008). It is not the intention to go into the detail of that evaluation, but instead to do two main things: i) to discuss the main challenges that the project team experienced in undertaking the evaluation and ii) to explore some of the challenges that LLNs are likely to experience as they reach the end of their HEFCE funding periods.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009