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Charungkaittikul, Suwithida; Ratana-Ubol, Archanya; Henschke, John A. – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2019
The study proposes strategies to reorient higher education institutions toward lifelong learning to serve lifelong adult learners in Thailand. The Ethnographic Delphi Futures Research (EDFR) approach was used for data collection. Additional research instruments used were in-depth interviews, a questionnaire "Measurable Performance Indicators…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Adult Learning
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Fleener, M. Jayne; Barcinas, Susan J. – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
This paper explores futures learning strategies enacted by ecosystem building futurists working with organizations and communities for social transformation and adaptation to uncertain futures. The research is based on interviews with futurists who work as ecosystem builders to understand the "what," "how," and "why"…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Lifelong Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Change
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Karacabey, Mehmet Fatih; Bozkus, Kivanc – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2019
The purpose of this research was to determine the effect of psychological factors on Syrian refugees' participation in lifelong education. The ex post facto co-relational causal design was employed in this research. A questionnaire form consisted of four scales was used to collect data from 297 refugees participated in lifelong education. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Refugees, Lifelong Learning
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Patterson, Margaret Becker; Paulson, Usha G. – Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, 2016
The Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) assessed literacy, numeracy, and technology-related skills of adults and found skill levels of US adults are well below the international average. In a world where advanced skills are requisite to workplace competitiveness, low skills are a danger sign. An initial PIAAC…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning, Learning Strategies, Demography
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Field, John; Lynch, Heather – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2015
Flexibility and change are typically viewed as endemic features of late modernity, leading to increased emphasis on the importance of transition during the adult life course. The paper examines experiences of transition for eight contributors to a research project that collected and analysed life histories as the basis for an understanding of…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Educational Environment, Adult Learning, Personal Autonomy
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Bear, Anne A. Ghost – Journal of Adult Education, 2012
The learning needs for adults that result from the constant increase in technology are rooted in the adult learning concepts of (a) andragogy, (b) self-directed learning, (c) learning-how-to-learn, (d) real-life learning, and (e) learning strategies. This study described the learning strategies that adults use in learning to engage in an online…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Adult Learning, Andragogy, Literacy
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Levinsen, Karin Tweddell – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2011
In the globalized economies e-permeation has become a basic condition in our everyday lives. ICT can no longer be understood solely as artefacts and tools and computer-related literacy are no longer restricted to the ability to operate digital tools for specific purposes. The network society, and therefore also eLearning are characterized by…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Definitions, Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning
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Heimlich, Joe E.; Horr, E. Elaine T. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2010
Environmental learning, or how individuals make sense and meaning about nature, the environment, ecology, and environmental issues, is best understood as lifelong, life-wide, and life-deep (Banks and others, 2007). Lifelong learning refers to acquisition of skills, competencies, attitudes, and knowledge over time; life-wide is learning across…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning, Ecology, Environmental Education
Schuller, Tom – Adults Learning, 2008
A decade after the National Advisory Group for Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning (NAGCELL) report, "The Learning Age", born in the first flush of the New Labour Government, the task of providing and securing an overall strategic framework for lifelong learning remains as large as ever. NIACE is the Inquiry into the Future for…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Continuing Education, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries
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Hofmann, Peter – Convergence, 2008
Learning to learn is important and increasingly vital for people trying to deal with a rapidly changing world! Or, in the words of the European Union, learning to learn is one of the eight "key competences that citizens require for their personal fulfilment, social inclusion, active citizenship and employability in our knowledge-based…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Learning Strategies, Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning
Gr ver Aukrust, Vibeke, Ed. – Elsevier, 2011
This collection of 58 articles from the recently-published third edition of the International Encyclopedia of Education focuses on learning, memory, attention, problem solving, concept formation, and language. Learning and cognition is the foundation of cognitive psychology and encompasses many topics including attention, memory, categorization,…
Descriptors: Memory, Concept Formation, Cognitive Psychology, Problem Solving
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Mesh, Linda Joy – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2010
Institutions of higher education realise the importance of the role of learning organisations in terms of providing personnel training and updating. Yet further consideration should be given to flexible and accessible means for meeting the growing request for continuous learning. Jason Hughes describes an organization's capability to "learn how to…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Colleges
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Papastamatis, Adamantios; Panitsidou, Eugenia – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2009
The problems faced by a postmodern European Union, due to internationalisation of the economy, loss of competitiveness, rise in unemployment and negative demographic outcomes, call for transformations able to promote excellence in knowledge, technology and economic effectiveness, which also promote social cohesion. Thus, investment in human…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning
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Ricard, Virginia B. – Journal of Adult Education, 2008
This article presents 12 practical ways of learning as adults at cognitive, affective, and performance levels. Focused on four areas of active engagement, learners are encouraged to trust themselves in formal as well as informal settings with their variety of learning styles, intelligences, and degrees of self-direction. The importance of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning, Learning Strategies
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Monaghan, Catherine H.; Columbaro, Norina L. – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2008
The application of Communities of Practice (CofP) can potentially serve as an effective learning strategy for higher education classrooms by contributing to student professional development while fostering a desire for life-long learning. The purpose of this qualitative study was to assess the effectiveness of this learning strategy and help…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Lifelong Learning, Professional Development, Communities of Practice
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