Abstract

Lifelong learning is an essential challenge for inventing the future of our societies; it is a necessity rather than a possibility or a luxury to be considered. Lifelong learning is more than adult education or training --- it is a mindset and a habit for people to acquire. It creates the challenge to understand, explore, and support new essential dimensions of learning such as: (1) selfdirected learning, (2) learning on demand, (3) informal learning, and (4) collaborative and organizational learning. Lifelong learning requires a deeper understanding of the co-evolutionary processes between fundamental human activities and their relationships and interdependencies with new media. It requires progress and an integration of new theories, innovative systems, practices, and assessment. To make lifelong learning an important part of human life, new intellectual spaces, physical spaces, organizational forms, and reward structures need to be created that allow individuals, groups, and organiz...

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