Lifelong Learning / Education Resources

• Explore Adult Learning has resources, articles, ideas, and links to help you get back to learning. http://www.exploreadultlearning.co.uk
  
  
• ACE’s Center for Adult Learning and Educational Credentials has championed lifelong learning for more than 50 years. In 1942, the Center pioneered the evaluation of education and training attained outside the classroom. Today, the Center serves adult learners through three main programming activities: Corporate Programs, Military Programs, and the GED Testing Service. http://www.acenet.edu/calec/home.html
  
  
• From Peterson's, the folks who brought you those thick college catalogues, comes a dynamite site for anyone thinking about returning to or currently enrolled in school. Easy-to-navigate channels on K-12, undergraduate, and graduate education, career resources, executive training, distance learning, on-line and downloadable articles, and much, much more. Also features Open Choices, a free on-line enrollment advisory service to help you sort through your lifelong learning choices. http://www.petersons.com
  
  
• Lifelong Learning is a private company offering a variety of consulting services to individuals; while the company offers fee-based services, its web-site has many free directories and listings, such as the Directory of On-line Colleges, Internet Universities, and Training Institutes. http://www.geteducated.com
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Workplace Training Resources

• The Training Supersite is a huge site with lots to offer both to companies looking to design training programs and to individual employees interested in resources for short-term skill upgrades. Both free and fee-based services and products are available, including thousands of CD-ROM and video-based training products. http://www.trainingsupersite.com
  
  
• Training and Seminar Locators is a good site for finding suppliers of seminars and other short-term training products for organizations and their employees; a searchable database makes it easy to find what you're looking for. The site also features fee-based, on-line software training in a wide variety of software applications. http://www.tasl.com/tasl/home.html
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Government Resources

• National Institute for Literacy presents a comprehensive resource site for issues and resources related to literacy, including Adult Basic Education (ABE), English as a Second Language (ESL), computer literacy, and workplace literacy. The Internet Directory of Literacy and Adult Education Resources provides information and links to state literacy resource centers and many community-based providers of literacy services. http://novel.nifl.gov
  
  
• U.S. Department of Education is a good site to help you stay attuned with national education initiatives and demonstration projects in your local area. http://www.ed.gov
  
  
• This U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Agency site has information and resources on national, state and local training and workforce development initiatives, such as School-to-Work and One-Stop Career Centers.
  http://www.doleta.gov
  
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