Meeting abstract
ADULT EDUCATION IN 21TH CENTURY
Petja Janžekovič
; Public University of Ptuj – Educational Centre for Adults, Ptuj, Slovenia
Abstract
Petja Janžekovič
Future of education lies within modern social and educational networks highly dependent on ICT. With promotion of ICT usage in education we provide basis for future generations. Promoters of distant learning education and all of its benefits (and obstacles) could only be those that really need them: small countries, areas with scarce population, low income areas, drop-outs, and unemployed. Why? Although EU states it’s direction towards “virtual education”, in reality we still lack the availability of user-oriented educational systems that would allow soft transit of paleontological educational methods into 21th Century: necessity of lifelong learning as priority for social cohesion, importance of EU support for non-formal education (therefore it should be ICT-based, flexible and, in the first place– free for everybody). We are dealing with situation non plus ultra – only adaptation of used learning methods and standardization of e-learning as equal to classical methods of education can bring us towards future, but the today’ reality still seems to be holding a hard grasp on its very firm base of didactical and methodological structures of education. Objectives in near future: support of networks for distant learning, motivated teachers with in-service training abilities for application of virtual classrooms and methodologies of e-learning, upgrade of didactical methods from ex-catedra towards off-catedra, sophisticated methods of communication with participants in lifelong learning.
Keywords
Modern didactics with ICT support; lifelong learning; open-source availability
Hrčak ID:
104262
URI
Publication date:
12.12.2011.
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