CHANGING LIFELONG LEARNING PARADIGM AND THE DIGITAL LEARNING AGE

摘要

Knowledge production and innovation are important drives of economic growth in the 21st century. Higher education forms its role along new conceptional and operative standards in order to meet challenges. Fundamental, ongoing and embedded commitments are taking social responsibility, the improvement of quality, enhancing performance and providing "best value". There are growing social expectations towards higher education and scholarly work. Political and social support for universities, crucially relying on public funding and tuition fees, may be maintained on the basis of assessability of their performance through the improvement of quality. In this process, the provision of learning opportunities for age groups no longer belonging to that of university students (adults) is gaining importance.