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Center for Lifelong Learning (CLL) at the University of Aruba (UA):

“CLL encourages critical thinking which is needed in a nation’s

development”

Continued from Page 31 den Berg-Alexander concludes.
The program
“Since mid-May CLL only offers August
webinars, we have no choice ‘Zomerschool Nederlands’ 17 – 28
but to do things different in ac- August – language: Dutch.
cordance with the new normal.
Where before we used to invite September
people to come to the university’s ‘Turbocollege woordspelling’ 2
aula to sit with you and interact, and 3 September* – language:
now you have to make sure that Dutch
within 30 minutes they walk away ‘Beleid Schrijven met Impact’ 9,
feeling enriched and having an 11, 16 and 18 September* – lan-
increase in knowledge and un- guage: Dutch.
derstanding. It is a different way,” ‘Brush Up your English’ September
Van den Berg-Alexander says. 22, 24 and 29 September*. Lan-
CLL will maintain the online learn- guage: English.
ing until further notice. “The first post-corona series about a better the manner in which this is done.
Friday in September we open the normal where we looked at the But still it is important to discuss.” *Take note that there is an addi-
new academic year and spaces Doughnut economics. Another Most of CLL’s program is offered tional pre-training session for max
are limited because of the social series was about creating Entre- for free, there are some paid ac- 1 hour, one day prior to start date
distancing rules so we choose to preneurial and Mindset. You’re tivities however. to get participants familiar with
continue online.” playing to really find what works. the electronical learning environ-
We try to connect to what is rel- “With regards to the participants I ment.
The challenge with online is to evant to the community. For ex- can say that it is a broad public, For more information: https://
offer interesting topics at the ample Black Lives Matter is a sen- and now that it’s online we see www.ua.aw/life-long-learning.
right hour and to get people en- sitive topic which we would like to people from abroad joining in. If
gaged, but so far CLL manages discuss within the community but readers are interested in connect- To join the mailing list please regis-
this quite well. “We did the Aruba after having thoroughly looked at ing; we are open to that,” Van ter at: cll@ua.aw q