Developed as a lifelong learning radio and internet initiative, the weekly radio program Learning Works aims to achieve the following:

Showcase - in its many forms - adult learning in action

Feature the learning journeys of adults who have returned to learning or who have overcome disadvantage of many kinds to achieve their goals

Develop radio and online audio resources in a variety of areas, including health, media, science, social history, justice and legal issues.

Learning Works is supported by the South Australian Department of Further Education Employment Science and Technology, Employment Programs, ACE & Community Partnerships Unit.

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Broadcast in Adelaide

Learning Works is produced at PBA FM, in Adelaide, South Australia, and is heard in Adelaide on 89.7 on the FM band.

First broadcast: 8.30pm Monday evenings
Repeat broadcast: 9.00am Friday mornings

Learning Works website

Following the weekly broadcast in Adelaide many of the Learning Works interviews are then added to the Learning Works website.

The website is the key to making this media initiative accessible Australia-wide. While listening to radio continues to be a very important part of our daily routines, this radio project both highlights the importance of lifelong learning and points listeners to the Learning Works website, as a growing learning resource of mp3 audiofiles and fact sheets.

Educators in schools and in adult education, as well as individual listeners with an interest in utilizing mp3 audio and related online files, are invited to visit the Learning Works website

Tony Ryan

Producer / Presenter

Learning Works is produced and presented each week by Tony Ryan.

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Acknowledgement

We gratefully acknowledge the ongoing support and assistance of the South Australian Department of Further Education Employment Science and Technology, through the ACE and Community Partnerships Unit. Without their ready involvement in this lifelong learning radio and internet project, Learning Works would not be possible.

 
LATEST NEWS

Last updated 15 January 2010

Back on air - 18 January
After a short recess, Learning Works returns to PBA FM at 8.30pm on Monday 18 January. The Learning Works team thanks our supporters in 2009, and we look forward to bringing you some good radio in 2010.

Some early items in 2010
In keeping with our commitment to providing a range of interviews and reviews on topics in areas such as Health, Science, The Arts, Social History and Justice Issues, our early programs in January 2010 include a project in SA to film the story of John Paterson McGowan – Hollywood’s First Australian (18 Jan and 1 Feb) and Adelaide musician Andy Salvanos and the Chapman Stick (18 Jan).

We’re broadcasting a full length program for Australia Day – not looking at those events associated with the arrival of the First Fleet in Sydney, but at some of the earlier maritime history off the coast of Western Australia (25 Jan).

Catherine Speck with Tony Ryan

Associate Professor Catherine Speck is interviewed by PBA FM’s Tony Ryan about the new online Art History course, devised by the University of Adelaide and the Art Gallery of South Australia.

In February, highlights include details of a new online Art History course being introduced by the University of Adelaide in partnership with the Art Gallery of South Australia (1 Feb); and interviews on literacy with Dr Peter Woodhouse (Melbourne) and Michelle Eady (University of Wollongong).

As they say, all this, and more, in Learning Works in early 2010.

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Learning Works - linking community radio and lifelong learning

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