Opportunities for adult learners through integrated e-learning
The distance learning environment has a major contribution to make to the educational requirements of the 21st century by encouraging the acceptance of lifelong learning (LLL). Keeping pace with changes in technology and meeting the increasing demands of the knowledge based economy requires a hig...
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/651/1/opportunities_nantha.pdf http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/651/ |
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| Summary: | The distance learning environment has a major contribution to make to the educational
requirements of the 21st century by encouraging the acceptance of lifelong learning (LLL).
Keeping pace with changes in technology and meeting the increasing demands of the
knowledge based economy requires a highly skilled and educated workforce. The solution
would then have to be to foster educational opportunities which would invariably lead to
continuing education through the concept of LLL. Avenues would then point to integrated elearning
with its egalitarian environment of open access and greater opportunities for the
learners particularly the adult learners. The integrated e-learning opportunities would be
able to satisfy the students’ need for convenient offerings and at the same time maximize the
use of online teaching technologies, facilities and resources reducing presence in a
classroom environment. Arguably traditional classroom methods present an important
presence in the teaching-learning process but the use of technology presents the challenges
of the future. Technology has now integrated into higher education and this paper attempts
to explore the opportunities and challenges that online learning in general and Open
University Malaysia in particular face in implementing lifelong learning to cater to the
adult learners. (Abstract by author) |
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