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Linking Self-Directed Lifelong Learning and E-Learning: Priorities for Institutions of Higher Education

Linking Self-Directed Lifelong Learning and E-Learning: Priorities for Institutions of Higher Education

Yukiko Inoue
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781605663586|ISBN10: 1605663581|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616925833|EISBN13: 9781605663593
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-358-6.ch002
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Inoue, Yukiko. "Linking Self-Directed Lifelong Learning and E-Learning: Priorities for Institutions of Higher Education." Institutional Transformation through Best Practices in Virtual Campus Development: Advancing E-Learning Policies, edited by Mark Stansfield and Thomas Connolly, IGI Global, 2009, pp. 22-37. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-358-6.ch002

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Inoue, Y. (2009). Linking Self-Directed Lifelong Learning and E-Learning: Priorities for Institutions of Higher Education. In M. Stansfield & T. Connolly (Eds.), Institutional Transformation through Best Practices in Virtual Campus Development: Advancing E-Learning Policies (pp. 22-37). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-358-6.ch002

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Inoue, Yukiko. "Linking Self-Directed Lifelong Learning and E-Learning: Priorities for Institutions of Higher Education." In Institutional Transformation through Best Practices in Virtual Campus Development: Advancing E-Learning Policies, edited by Mark Stansfield and Thomas Connolly, 22-37. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-358-6.ch002

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Abstract

An important task of higher education is to assist students in participating in an increasingly global economy. This global economy is transforming into a knowledge economy. Individuals need to develop the necessary competencies to be able to participate in a working life that is mainly based on knowledge productivity. The competencies include self-directed lifelong learning, in particular, through e-learning. E-learning refers to using electronic applications and processes to learn. Such applications and processes include Internet-based learning, virtual classrooms, and digital collaboration. The traditional classroom-based approaches to education will not provide the learning environment that is required for student-directed learning. The digital revolution makes new approaches to higher education — approaches which do foster lifelong learning — practical. The current chapter therefore examines the importance of linking e-learning to current knowledge in general, and to self-directed lifelong learning specifically. Higher education today must commit to new roles: providing educational communities such as virtual campuses; and increasing capacities to produce knowledge available to all.

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