Higher education institutions to promote a lifelong learning strategy
Autor
Romero-del-Castillo, Juan A.
Haro García, Aída de
Ortiz-Boyer, Domingo
Editor
IATEDFecha
2019Materia
Lifelong learningCollaborative learning
Social network
Knowledge society
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In today’s society students and graduates are demanded to be equipped with two fundamental attitudes.
The first is being active learners enrolled in all different activities related to Active Learning that have
place at academic space. The second demand is to keep their knowledge and skills up-to-date.
But continuously updating and learning is not just a student attitude. Nowadays, lifelong learning and
continuous training is the key to satisfy our changing professional needs. We believe that people need
help from the higher education institutions in their lifelong learning process. Higher education institutions
are very capable to manage an effective, trustworthy and accurate strategy for lifelong learning.
We must ensure that our education and training systems are able to provide students with new
competences and skills for living standards in Europe: “The aim is for everyone to have the key set of
competences needed for personal development, social inclusion, active citizenship and employment.
These competences, apart from specific for each field of study, include more transversal skills such as
digital competence, entrepreneurship competence, critical thinking, problem solving and learning to
learn”.
All citizens have the right to high-quality and inclusive education, training and lifelong learning. Higher
education institutions should support this right with high quality and accurate sources of information.
Therefore, students should not only be self-updated making an online course from time to time; they
must be continuously connected to the source of academic and scientific advances in their field of
interest. We think this support can only be provided by higher education institutions. Higher education
institutions should manage this process since they have the knowledge, the infrastructure and, more
importantly, they have the ideal human resources to accomplish the process: teachers.
In this work we propose a framework in which the universities are more involved in the lifelong learning
process of graduates. We currently have the technology needed to easily develop online platforms that
could implement this new theory. It would also be interesting to incorporate knowledge from the business
and industrial sector so experts from different fields can collaborate in a social network. We propose as
a first experiment the development of a social collaborative content filter.
Students and graduates have access to a massive and overwhelming amount of information with no
quality or classification filters that makes it unhelpful. Besides, the digital origins of most of this
information makes many people without computer self-efficacy unable to take advantage of it.
Our proposal will facilitate the collaborative supervision of the sources of information to ensure its quality
and educational purpose by experts. Students and graduates will also actively participate in their
learning process interacting with the proposed system.