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Attended by the Director-General of UNESCO and the Minister of Education of China, the Forum focused on translating the discourse of lifelong learning into practical guidelines to build lifelong learning systems, including:
- reviewing progress and challenges in developing national strategies to promote lifelong learning
- sharing experience and best practice in establishing lifelong learning systems
- developing capacity for policy-making and research in lifelong learning in UNESCO Member States
The three-day Forum brought together more than 200 participants from from across the world, who contributed to developing learning concepts and practices within a lifelong learning perspective.
Proceedings
The papers are grouped into five thematic sections in the proceedings:
- Conceptual evolutions of lifelong learning
- Policy developments in promoting lifelong learning
- Distance education, new learning media and higher education in lifelong learning
- Learning city and lifelong learning
- Rural and industry development and lifelong learning
Distance education
Sir John Daniel, President of ICDE member institution, the Commonwealth of Learning was one of the participants in the Forum. His paper entitled, Distance education: ends, means, opportunities and threats (pp 183-191) argues that distance learning now holds the key to an educational revolution that will see access expanded, quality enhanced, and cost reduced.
Kang Ning, President of China Education Television, spoke on the construction of a new learning media market, while Han Yanming, President of Linyi Normal University, China, delivered reflections on the value of higher education in lifelong learning.
12 May 2011