Lifelong Learning in Europe and the United States, Comparing Approaches Acr

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ONLINE EVENT June 15, 2023 5:00 – 6:00 pm CET Registration is free but required.

Please register here: https://bit.ly/D-Dialogue-June-15 

In Europe and around the world, new skills-based approaches to lifelong learning, job-training, and job placement are emerging. Displaced workers, employed workers seeking career advancement, and aging populations are all increasingly seeking educational opportunities that can enhance their incomes, increase their professional opportunities and, in some cases, simply keep their minds stimulated. Many of these lifelong learning and job training programs are being offered online, some within existing national education frameworks, with others provided by private sector enterprises. In Europe, approximately 11.3 percent of all adults under the age of 64 are already involved in some form of lifelong learning, with that number projected to nearly double in the coming years, according to a study conducted by the European Parliamentary Research Service. This free one-hour online panel discussion features two globally-recognized experts, one from Europe and the other from the United States, in an exchange that compares approaches to lifelong learning in their respective regions. The panelists will focus on how skills-based approaches, in particular, impact access to and the success of lifelong within different population groups, occupations, and economic sectors, as supported by their respective national systems of education and job-training. This provocative, informative, and timely conversation will explore the role of individual learners, educators, government, standards-setting groups, policy, industry groups, and other stakeholders to illuminate current opportunities for progress during this time of profound technological and social change. The health of democracy itself may well rest on the ability of national systems of education and lifelong learning to deliver the social stability associated with growing economies that provide opportunities for all. As such, the content of this discussion will be particularly useful for government policymakers and the leaders of higher education institutions. The conversation will be moderated by Hal Plotkin, senior scholar at the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) and former senior policy advisor on higher education in the administration of U.S. president Barack Obama

Speakers

Lisa Petrides, Founder and CEO, Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, United States of America

Dirk Van Damme, Former Director of the Center for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI), Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Europe

Moderator:

Hal Plotkin Senior scholar at the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME)