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Learners remember 10% of what they read; 20% of what they hear; 30% of what they see; 50% of what they see and hear; 70% of what they discuss with others; 80% of personal experience; 90% of what they teach someone else.

We aim to understand how integrating people into open and inclusive science-focused virtual communities can facilitate Informal Learning and lead to a more informed public capable of evidence-based decision making. We also aim to develop improvements of Place4Us and the VCC software to facilitate more Informal Learning.

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[Apr 19, 2025] A Call to Action for Humanity: The new book by Rutger Bregman is a “Call to Action for Humanity” (Trevor Noah). Read the extract in the Guardian.

[Jan 22, 2025] Join the Deliberation in the Deliberation Room "From Knowledge to Wisdom": This Deliberation focuses on how we can transform education to help students understand the difference between knowledge and wisdom and to gain wisdom out of their studies. Among others, we aim to understand to what extent critical reading integrated in studies can help to achieve these outcomes. Come and join the deliberation ...

[Jul 06, 2023] Building Community: The ILearn VCC is in the process of building a community for informal learning. You are invited to join ...

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[Jun 04, 2026] ‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: This is what the Global Justice Report published today makes very clear. Read the article by Jonathan Watts in the Guardian as an introduction. While this equal and habitable world is still possible, it is very unlikely that we will transition to this world as long as greedy and unethical billionaires supported by governments they own compete to be the first trillionaire. The report underlines that the fight for an equal and habitable world has to be a fight against a system that rewards extraction and depletion of all resources and requires infinitely growing consumption devouring the Earth's life-support system; a system designed to increase inequality and sustain the exploitation of almost all to serve the greed of a few!

[May 28, 2026] No King Day on June 14, 2026: The No Kings movement has announced a nationwide event on June 14, 2026, directly counter-programming the 80th birthday celebrations for Donald Trump and the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bout on the south lawn of the White House.