Continuing education and lifelong learning.

2016 ◽  
pp. 135-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Taylor ◽  
Greg J. Neimeyer
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Lifelong Learning

Continuing Professional Development: Views and Barriers Toward Participation Among Malaysian Pharmacists

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-55
Author(s):  
Zoriah Aziz ◽  
Chong Nyuk Jet ◽  
Sameerah Shaikh Abdul Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Current Role

Continuing professional development (CPD) is a lifelong learning approach to maintain and enhance professional competencies. This cross-sectional study aimed to examine the pharmacists’ preferred CPD activities and barriers to CPD participation. A survey instrument was distributed to all government pharmacists (N=3876) in Malaysia. The response rate was 29.2 %. The majority of the pharmacists (92%) believed that engaging in CPD would improve their performances in their current role. Almost 90% of the respondents preferred to participate in CPD activities associated with continuing education such as workshops and conferences attendance. Barriers to CPD participation were current job constraints, lack of time, and accessibility in terms of travel and cost. It is important to address these issues before the implementation of mandatory CPD for pharmacists in Malaysia.

Planning for lifelong education

1988 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Weimer
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Lifelong Education ◽  
Industrial Firms ◽  
Large Market ◽  
Business Of Education

Continuing education has become a large market with participation by industrial firms, educational institutions and firms in the business of education. Both education and industry should develop strategies for their involvement in continuing education. Both should commit to the concept of lifelong learning as essential for their success. Both should consider cooperative projects as one of the most cost-effective ways of providing continuing education. Both should improve communication with each other to improve our capability to identify appropriate joint projects and to improve our management of them.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONTINUING EDUCATION CONCEPT IN THE EUROPEAN EDUCATIONAL AREA: REGULATORY PROVISION

2020 ◽  
pp. 78-84
Author(s):  
Svitlana Sysoieva ◽  
Olena Protsenko
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Education System ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Education Concept

The article reveals the European context of the meaning of the «continuing education» concept, which is interpreted in the Memorandum on Lifelong Learning as a purposeful educational activity conducted on an ongoing basis to improve the knowledge, skills and abilities of citizens and is a basic principle of the education system. Continuing education has become a key element in the European Union definition of strategies to build the world’s most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based society. The analysis of international documents adopted by EU countries showed that the implementation of continuing education strategies in national systems is recognized as one of the priority areas and fundamental principles of educational system development in EU countries, which direct the national policy of their countries to implement the concept of lifelong learning and encourage higher education institutions increase access to education for different age groups. The system of continuing education is divided into three components. The first – additional professional education – contributes to the formation of the professional basis of human resources of the modern high-tech economy. The second component of the system of continuing education provides various groups with the opportunity to adapt to changing living conditions. The third component of the system of continuing education provides for the satisfaction of various individual educational needs of citizens. The implementation of the concept of continuing education is aimed at covering the educational programs of all people – from the youngest to the elderly. Attention is focused on finding ways to democratize access to education, increase the value of knowledge, increase investment in education and bring it closer to the consumer. The study and analysis of international documents on continuing education is necessary for the further development of the education system of Ukraine, which corresponds to the general trend of development of education systems in European and global space

Lifelong Learning for Agency Fisheries Professionals: What are the Continuing Education Needs?

Fisheries ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
pp. 10-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
William F. Murphy ◽  
Gerald H. Cross ◽  
Louis A. Helfrich
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Education Needs

scholarly journals The Methodological Underdog: A Review of Quantitative Research in the Key Adult Education Journals

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Boeren
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research

An examination of articles published in leading adult education journals demonstrates that qualitative research dominates. To better understand this situation, a review of journal articles reporting on quantitative research has been undertaken by the author of this article. Differences in methodological strengths and weaknesses between quantitative and qualitative research are discussed, followed by a data mining exercise on 1,089 journal articles published in Adult Education Quarterly, Studies in Continuing Education, and International Journal of Lifelong Learning. A categorization of quantitative adult education research is presented, as well as a critical discussion on why quantitative adult education does not seem to be widespread in the key adult education journals.

scholarly journals Efficient, Effective, and Ethical Practice in Lifelong Learning

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas N. Guinsburg
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Professional Values ◽  
Ethical Practice ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
University Continuing Education ◽  
University Programs ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Ethical View

This paper seeks to assess the interaction of--and tensions between--efficiency, effectiveness, and ethics in goal-setting for university continuing education programs. Its thesis is that efficiency, that is, a cost accountant's measure of productivity, is of limited utility unless we articulate thoughtfully and appropriately what we are trying to be efficient at. The goal of effectiveness, which measures the relationship between program results and program objectives, helps us to be wary of those "efficiencies" that subvert essential program objectives. Finally, effectiveness cannot be separated from an ethical view of lifelong learning: beneficial to society, collaborative rather than competitive, and keeping faith with our highest professional values and institutional standards. Only a raison d'être grounded in ethically based effectiveness can ensure the sort of future we want for university programs of lifelong learning.

scholarly journals Application of technologies of formal and non-formal education for continuous professional development of the modern specialist

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (32) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Sydorenko ◽  
Inna Shorobura ◽  
Anna Ponomarenko ◽  
Maryna Dei ◽  
Oksana Dzhus
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learning ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Professional Self ◽  
Interview Questionnaire

The article considers the technology of formal and non-formal education as a factor of improving the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of lifelong learning of adults, their continuous personal and professional self-development and self-realization in accordance with an individual educational trajectory. In the study, the following methods were used: expert survey, interview, questionnaire, testing, observation, analysis of documents. The content, essence, principles of application of interactive, acmeological, andragogical and digital technologies are described, which ensure the effective functioning of the content of adult learning, meet the interests, requests and needs of customers of educational services, employers and key stakeholders. On the basis of comprehensive permanent monitoring, the effectiveness of the use of continuing education technologies for the training of a modern specialist has been experimentally tested. The results of the research can be used in the process of modernizing the system of continuing education, the organization of adult lifelong learning.

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