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Policies and strategies of technology-enhanced learning issued by governments have played an important role in improving the quality of lifelong education. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of policies and strategies of technology-enhanced learning in lifelong education in China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Singapore. A review of lifelong education policies and strategies in these countries is conducted in this study. The results show that these Asian societies input different levels of efforts in promoting technology-enhanced learning. Technology-enhanced learning provides for remarkably new avenues for learning and skills development. In order to educate the workforce in the future, governments should invest and develop more in these aspects.
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Lam, J., Tsoi, P. (2011). Policies and Strategies of Technology Enhanced Learning in Lifelong Education in China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Singapore. In: Kwan, R., Fong, J., Kwok, Lf., Lam, J. (eds) Hybrid Learning. ICHL 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6837. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22763-9_16
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