Lifelong Learning

Family Learning refers to the everyday ways parents, children, and other relatives build knowledge and skills together, often without a

Community Based Learning is an approach in which students learn through structured work with people, organizations and places outside the

Workplace Learning refers to the skills, knowledge and habits people develop through their daily work rather than only in classrooms.

Formal Learning Across Life refers to structured education that happens through recognized institutions, leads to certificates or degrees, and follows

Nonformal learning across life refers to organized, purposeful education that happens outside the traditional school system and typically leads to

Informal Learning Across Life describes the knowledge and skills people gain outside classrooms, through everyday experience, conversation, observation and self-directed

Andragogy and Lifelong Learning describe two connected ideas: how adults learn differently from children, and why people keep learning throughout

Self directed learning is a way of learning in which the learner, rather than a teacher or course, takes the

Lifelong Learning Competencies are the abilities that allow adults to keep acquiring knowledge and skills throughout their lives, long after

Lifelong Learning Skills are the abilities that let adults keep acquiring new knowledge across their working lives and beyond. They