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Direct linkKoper, Rob; Tattersall, Colin – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2004
The requirements placed on learning technologies to support lifelong learning differ considerably from those placed on technologies to support particular fragments of a learning lifetime. The time scales involved in lifelong learning, together with its multi-institutional and episodic nature are not reflected in todays mainstream learning…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Information Networks, Computer Networks, Lifelong Learning
Microcomputers for Information Management, 1995
Suggests uses for the NII (National Information Infrastructure) for education and lifelong learning. Highlights include educational benefits of technology; current uses of telecommunications for education, including instructional video and distance learning; the role of various federal, state, and local agencies; telecommunications in the…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Distance Education
Moller, Morten, Ed.; Shaughnessy, Haydn, Ed. – 1991
This report is based on contributions to two workshops arranged jointly by Task Force Human Resources and the DELTA (Developing European Learning through Technological Advance) Unit. The purpose of collecting these papers was to provide an overview of the implications of the DELTA Exploratory Action outcomes for future research. After the preface…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society)
Download full textNational Coordinating Committee on Technology in Education and Training, Alexandria, VA. – 1994
The National Coordinating Committee for Technology in Education and Training (NCC-TET) has developed these requirements to ensure that the National Information Infrastructure (NII) provides expanded opportunities for education and training. A number of national organizations have contributed to these requirements, which are intended to be used in…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Change, Computer Networks, Costs
Florida Community Coll. Distance Learning Consortium, Tallahassee. – 1998
This document discusses the benefits of distance education and the necessary steps for its implementation. It begins by describing the societal changes that are paving the way for distance learning, such as reduced access for expanding student populations and the dissolution of geographic boundaries. The next section explains the rationale behind…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Colleges, Computer Networks, Distance Education
National Education Goals Panel, Washington, DC. – 1993
Internetworked communications restructures relationships among educators, learners, and knowledge and information, and promises a systemic acceleration of the pace of educational change. In this report, the Task Force on Education Network Technology identifies the following rationales for deployment and utilization of such communications: to…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Computer Networks
Dunbar, Keith; Faris, Ron – 1997
This report briefly describes and analyzes three interrelated areas of reform of post-school education and training in the United Kingdom (chiefly England and Scotland) within the wider historic and political-cultural context. These areas are the subjects of the first three report sections. Section 1 addresses the lifelong learning initiatives of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Agency Role, Apprenticeships, Articulation (Education)
