The goals focus on to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and to promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, which are anchored in the three key pillars of access, equity, and inclusion.
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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.