Dear colleagues We hope that you will be interested in the new issue of LIfewide Magazine and a new e-book on the theme of lifewide learning and education in universities and colleges. Both are published under Creative Commons licences and are free to download. warm regards Norman Lifewide Magazine Issue 9 March 2014 A bumper edition formed around the themes of the Lifewide Education's Learning Lives Conference. Includes articles by Professor Marcia Baxter Magolda Journey to Self-Authorship and a More Meaningful Life and Dr Christine Redecker The Future of Learning is Lifelong, Lifewide and Open. Copies can be downloaded free fromhttp://www.lifewidemagazine.co.uk/Please share the link Lifewide Learning & Education in Universities and Colleges E-Book The purpose of this book is to recognise and celebrate the many different ways in which universities and colleges are providing their learners with opportunities for a more complete, lifewide education by encouraging, supporting and recognising learning, personal development and achievement gained outside as well as inside the academic curriculum. The book contains thirteen descriptive accounts of institutional schemes and other approaches to support and recognise learners' lifewide learning and personal development, together with a small number of research and evaluation studies aimed at understanding how students are learning and developing through their lifewide experiences. Chapters can be downloaded free from Lifewide Education's Learning Lives website http://www.learninglives.co.uk/Please share the link. Learning Lives Conference Encouraging, Supporting and Recognising Lifewide Learning in Universities & Colleges Wednesday 26th March 2014 Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck, University of London http://www.learninglives.co.uk/ Follow Lifewide Education on twitter @lifewider #lifewideeducation