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UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2023
Higher education institutions are key players in promoting lifelong learning. By offering a variety of educational programmes in different modalities, they address the diverse needs and interests of learners. By establishing flexible learning pathways, they help ensure continuity of learning throughout life. And by maintaining close interaction…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, School Community Relationship, Private Sector
Xiao, Jun; Wang, Minjuan; Wang, Lamei; Zhu, Xiaoxiao – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2013
The gradual development of intelligent learning (iLearning) systems has prompted the changes of teaching and learning. This paper presents the architecture of an intelligent learning (iLearning) system built upon the recursive iLearning model and the key technologies associated with this model. Based on this model and the technical structure of a…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Continuing Education
Middleton, Alan – Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 2011
This article contends that university continuing education is in need of a dramatic repositioning in the minds and wallets of most university administrations. In order to respond both to a developed economy's need for the continuous upgrading of skills and knowledge and to universities' needs for new funding sources, the provision of lifelong…
Descriptors: Universities, Continuing Education, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries
Sooraksa, Nanta – International Journal of Training and Development, 2012
This paper describes a career development program for staff involved in providing training for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Thailand. Most of these staff were professional vocational teachers in schools. The program uses information communication technology (ICT), and its main objective is to teach Moodle software as a tool for…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Economic Development, Distance Education, Online Courses
Hunter-Johnson, Yvonne, Ed.; Cherrstrom, Catherine, Ed.; McGinty, Jacqueline, Ed.; Rhodes, Christy, Ed. – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
The American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) was founded in 1982 as the result of a merger between the National Association for Public and Continuing Adult Education (NAPCAE) and the Adult Education Association (AEA). This prestigious association is dedicated to the belief that lifelong learning contributes to human…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Adult Education, Continuing Education, Lifelong Learning
Darden, Mary Landon – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2009
In a world progressing with dizzying acceleration into the Information Age, the slow, measured approach of the traditional university can place administrator, faculty member, and student alike at a disadvantage. To move into this brave new world, the academic animal needs tools. "Beyond 2020: Envisioning the Future of Universities in America" is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Legal Problems, Continuing Education, Governance

Lynton, Ernest A. – Educational Record, 1983
Human capital is seen as needing maintenance and renovation as much as any building or piece of equipment. Employer-sponsored education is an important part of that maintenance, and lifelong instruction is becoming essential in order to maintain occupational effectiveness and preserve society's investment in human capital. (MLW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, College Faculty, Continuing Education, Educational Technology
Benson, Gregory M., Jr. – 1994
Technological advancements can combine computer assisted instruction (CAI) and interactive, multimedia environments to create lifelong learning opportunities within reach of everyone in the world. Arguing that the emergence of technology-delivered education represents one of the most significant investment opportunities in recent history, this…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Distance Education, Educational Change, Educational Technology
Barker, Philip – Educational Technology Review, 1999
Discusses how new computer-based approaches, electronic course delivery (ECD) and a virtual-university paradigm, to teaching and learning might be applied to the problems of supporting lifelong learning within the context of postcompulsory education. Describes a case study that involved applying ECD techniques within a conventional university…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Uses in Education, Continuing Education, Educational Development

Kinshuk – Interactive Learning Environments, 2002
Articles in this special issue on the theme of cognitive skills acquisition in lifelong learning begins with an analysis of cognitive skills, then moves to various methodologies and approaches for their effective acquisition, and concludes with a specific implementation of computer systems facilitating this acquisition. (AEF)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Continuing Education, Educational Development

King, Edmund – European Journal of Education, 1980
There has long been a connection, it is suggested, between formal education and the technologies of production, distribution, and communication. There should be nothing alarming in recognizing a technological/educational linkage. The contacts, instrumentation, and resources of lifelong education in a microelectronic tomorrow will transform all…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Continuing Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Objectives

McKinney, Kristen J.; Schuyler, Gwyer – Catalyst, 1999
Explores how community colleges have incorporated distance-education technology into both traditional continuing-education programs and for-credit curricula. Reports the results of a study of college catalogs and schedules from 130 colleges nationwide that revealed the availability of for-credit distance-education courses in the liberal arts and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Colleges, Continuing Education, Distance Education
Hiroshima Univ. (Japan). Research Inst. for Higher Education. – 2000
This publication presents proceedings from a 1999 conference on higher education reform and quality that involved six countries: China, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, and the United States. The first section, "Report of the Six-Nation Higher Education Project," presents "Summary of the Progress of the Higher Education…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Computer Uses in Education, Continuing Education, Educational Change

Kinshuk – Interactive Learning Environments, 2003
Introduces three papers that discuss the design methodology for developing learning systems for cognitive skills acquisition. Provides specific examples of processes that underlie the acquisition of cognitive skills. Confirms that through the embrace of lifelong learning, cognitive skills-based learning environments are finding a more prominent…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Continuing Education, Educational Development
Daniel, John – 1999
This keynote address discusses the implications of the university continuing education community. The paper asserts that while the boundaries of higher education have blurred in terms of physical buildings; the characteristics of students interested in higher education; the curricular offerings of high schools, community colleges, and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Role, Continuing Education, Distance Education