Lifelong learning: Changing mindsets

Lifelong learning is an essential challenge fbr inventing the future of our societies: it is a necessity rattler than a possibility or a luxury to be considered. Lifelong teaming 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 teaming such as: (I) self-directed learning, (2) learning on demand, (3) informal learning, and (4) collaborative and organizational teaming. Lifelong teaming 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 organizations to personally engage in and experience these new forms as risk takers who use their creativity and imagination to explore alternative ways of learning.