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Today, lifelong learning is fully integrated into our society. From the student point of view, lifelong learning has several characteristics that differentiate it from regular learning: domains of interest may be very broad; learning occurs in different depths; topics to study may be related both to work, family and leisure; students’ continuity cannot be guaranteed since their availability can be intermittent and little constant; a great dynamism is required in order to allow studying any topic, in any order, in the moment that best suit each student and at the best pace for everyone. Over 25 years ago some authors already claimed for moving towards innovative learning models, more personalized and where the students would take a more active role and would decide what to learn, when to learn and how to learn. Technology was not ready then to support this change of pedagogical paradigm, but it seems to be ready now. Thus, the technological context is set for facilitating a change of paradigm to promote lifelong learning. However, lifelong learners continue suffering from a model not adapted to their needs and preferences. This position paper discusses on the actual situation of lifelong learning from a critical point of view, analyzing some of the relevant literature and justifying the need to create new models that promote self-determination of students in the context of lifelong learning.
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This work has been partially supported by the eLearn Center through the project Xtrem 2018 and by European Commission through the project “colMOOC: Integrating Conversational Agents and Learning Analytics in MOOCs” (588438-EPP-1-2017-1-EL-EPPKA2-KA). This research has also been supported by the SmartLearn Research Group at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
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Conesa, J. et al. (2020). Towards an Educational Model for Lifelong Learning. In: Barolli, L., Hellinckx, P., Natwichai, J. (eds) Advances on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing. 3PGCIC 2019. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 96. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33509-0_50
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