In this article, Karen Billings discusses how working at a non-profit trade association has provided a unique perspective on how schools are using technology to support the teaching and learning process. Billings leads the Education Division at SIIA, the Washington, D.C.-based principal trade association for the software and digital content…

In the Fall 2007 issue of CJUCE, Scott McLean reviewed and analyzed the public claims made by university continuing education (UCE) units about the purpose of their work. He hoped that his survey would promote informed reflection and dialogue about these purposes and generate debate about the future direction of UCE in Canada. This article takes…

This month the Secretary of Education Margaret Spelling's Commission on the Future of Higher Education issued its final report, calling for systemic changes at the nation's colleges and universities. Declaring "we must not be blind to the less inspiring realities of postsecondary education in our country," the 19-member panel issued six primary…

Discusses the advantages of recurrent or lifelong education but recognizes that the logic of recurrent education is not matched by appropriate incentives to individuals to forgo traditional educational patterns. Briefly reviews articles that follow in the same journal number on the subject of lifelong learning. (GC)

The traditional role of universities has been expanded to include community education and continuous learning. In India, universities are becoming involved in the National Adult Education Programme. NAEP encompasses literacy education, rural extension activities, and linkage with the national social work program, with emphasis on training the…

Considers the challenges, opportunities, and advantages of teaching in a lifelong learning program. (JT)

Questions commonly held assumptions about lifelong learning. Suggests that lifelong learning should include daily-life activities of learning, doing, and being that involve cooperation with a community of friends or family rather than just formal instruction. Outlines elements of holistic lifelong learning. (SAS)

This paper focuses on a system of recurrent education in which individuals would have the opportunities to undertake educational and training activities in alternation with periods of work. Underlying the paper is the assumption that the financing approach to such a system would have to encompass most forms of postcompulsory education and…

Examines the growing number of adults pursuing lifelong learning within and outside of educational settings. Looks at the reasons adults are returning to postsecondary education, adults' learning traits, and the skills teachers should cultivate to deal effectively with adults in a learning situation. (DMM)

The work of education and information services for adults consists of collecting information about the education resources available, reaching the intended audience, and assisting clients to identify and obtain the appropriate learning opportunities. (Author/MLF)

New technologies require a fast pace of workforce training that should involve employers, employees, community colleges, and the government. Lifelong learning is a necessity not only for professions requiring licensing or certification but for all workers. (JOW)

Examines the conceptual frameworks and substantive ideas of three authors--Lawrence Cremin, Neil Postman, and Christopher Lasch--all of whom view technologies as educators. Focuses on television as an educator and the relations between television's education and the education of schools, families, and communities. Contains 19 references. (DDR)

Adult and continuing education should address three major areas of need: to develop a stronger knowledge base; to encourage universities to revise their missions from teaching only young people to the provision of lifespan learning; and to encourage all continuing education providers to join together to better serve the public and thus meet the…

The re-invigoration of storytelling in academic and public spheres allows rock art to offer opportunities to various publics, of which archaeologists are part. But how exactly this process of archaeology as lifelong learning is to proceed is not always clear, particularly in the United States. Until the last half decade of the twentieth century,…

Television, the author asserts, is the overwhelming factor in the continuous education and socialization of people of developed nations. Examines criticism of mass media's potential for behavior modification and subconscious manipulation. Advocates alternative uses of television based on Paulo Freier's "total language" approach, to teach…