The Online Education for Lifelong Learning:Logical Relationship,Implementation Paths and Development Visions
In the face of the people's increasing demand for lifelong learning and the need of building a lifelong learning service system,online education is necessary and capable of playing a key role.As lifelong learning is committed to serving the needs of the whole people,promoting career development,creating learning organizations and promoting balanced development of education,it can build a close logical relationship with online education.Lifelong learning can be used as the theoretical guidance and practical goal of online education development and the development of online education is an effective carrier and an important way to promote lifelong learning.Based on this logical relationship,the implementation path of lifelong learning oriented online education can be formulated,including online education practice for academic attainment,online education practice for after-school service,online education practice for career development,and online education practice for leisure hobbies.Combined with the reality and looking forward to the future,we can promote online education for lifelong learning according to the different learning needs in different stages of human development,including building the foundation for future development in the preschool education stage,cultivating learning attitudes and basic skills in the compulsory education stage,improving core competencies in high school education stage,providing diverse learning opportunities and improving adaptability in higher education stage,cultivating global citizens in continuing education stage,and meeting the needs of leisure and entertainment as well as innovative development in elderly education stage.