Bestr Ecosystem: Digital Credentials for Lifelong and Lifewide Learning
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Clip 2 - Lifelong and Lifewide Learning - What is it?
Lifelong learning and lifewide learning describes the concept of learning in which individuals learn throughout the life-span from formal, non-formal, and informal sources. It is an issue for educational policy, labor market policy, and the workplace, as well as for civil society. Key issues in lifelong learning include the following:
- lifelong learning "dissolves" the boundaries between policy sectors and increases communication between various walks of life;
- lifelong learning challenges old ways of communicating and looks toward finding forms and infrastructure for cooperation and coordination;
- lifelong and lifewide learning implies a shift in responsibility for education and learning from the public to the private and civil spheres;
- lifelong learning also involves a shift from the state to the individual, with the individual being the center of the process;
- government and society must create good conditions for lifelong and lifewide learning, especially by promoting educational equity;
- lifelong and lifewide learning requires information and guidance and follow-up and evaluation.