Space Technology

By: Jocelyn C. Morales
Lifelong learning denotes the methods by which a society hands down from one generation to the next its knowledge, culture, and values. The individual being educated develops physically, mentally, emotionally, morally, and socially. An individual teacher, the family, a church, or any other group in society may accomplish the work of education. A school, an agency that employs men and women who are professionally trained for this task usually carry out formal education.

With the advent of more modern technology, education also took a different turn towards provision of learning. In the field of education and training policies in the twenty-first century, Lifelong Learning is the new catchword. The pace of change brought about by new technologies has had a significant effect on the way people live, work, and play worldwide. New and emerging technologies challenge the traditional process of teaching and learning, and the way education is managed. Information technology, while an important area of study in its own right, is having a major impact across all curriculum areas. Easy worldwide communication provides instant access to a vast array of data, challenging assimilation and assessment skills. Rapid communication, plus increased access to Information Technology in the home, at work, and in educational establishments, could mean that learning becomes a truly lifelong activity—an activity in which the pace of technological change forces constant evaluation of the learning process itself. The use of communication tools such as e-mail, fax, computer, and videoconferencing overcomes barriers of space and time, and opens new possibilities for learning. The use of such technology is increasing, and it is now possible to deliver training to a widely dispersed audience by means of on-demand two-way video over terrestrial broadband networks.

Compared with traditional forms of learning, lifelong learning is different in that it claims to be universal, i.e. covering all citizens across life cycles and across individuals . The ultimate goal is to give each individual the motivation, the financial means and the physical access to learning at any time in his or her life, so that he or she can develop skills, upgrade or learn new skills for work for his/her own satisfaction and personal development. (LLLAsiaFinalPaper)

With today’s competitive and complicated survival, a decade would be long enough for governments to realize that lifelong learning is the answer to the demands of dynamic technology and modernization. It won’t be long till it would be realized that this kind of learning is what every nation needs to survive the competition, whatever kind it may be. With lifelong learning, you not only feed man for a day. Instead, you give him the alternative of learning how to fish – that he may feed himself for a lifetime.