Knowledge, skills, and attitudes that will help learners find personal fulfillment in their work and in society. These key competences include the following: traditional skills, such as the ability to communicate in the mother tongue and other languages; digital skills, literacy, and basic skills in mathematics and science; horizontal skills such as learning to learn, social and civic responsibility, entrepreneurship, cultural awareness, and creativity; taking initiative and being innovative.
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Promoting Active and Meaningful Learning for Digital Learners
Ebba Ossiannilsson (The Swedish Association for Distance Education, Sweden & The Swedish Association for e-Competence, Sweden & Ossiannilsson Quality in Open Online Learning (QOOL) Consultancy, Sweden)
Copyright: © 2018
|Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3949-0.ch016
Abstract
This chapter focuses on learners and the transformation of education for UNESCO SDG4 to ensure inclusive, affordable and quality education for all to support lifelong learning, based on access, equity, diversity, and quality. It addresses the current need for open, innovative, and collaborative education. The first theme concerns the next generation of learners, and includes lifelong learning, ethics, inclusion, and modernization of higher education. The second theme focuses on 21st century skills and digital learners. The third theme examines the ways in which learners take the lead in and own their learning, including self-determined learning. The last theme considers models of quality learning for the next generation of learners, as well as learning, and teaching in unbundling scenarios. A model on systemic transformation through a smart framework is also presented.