Abstract
Abstract - This paper exhibits basic features of lifelong education and possible forms of learning. Informal learning is elaborated in more details than other forms. The process of informal learning is a real example of lifelong education where an individual has total control over the learning process and its results by choosing learning forms that suit them best at a particular time (reading the written materials, communication with people from their real or virtual surroundings, exchange of experiences, learning on mistakes...). The paper emphasizes the importance of information and communications technologies in the process of informal learning, i.e. lifelong education.
Highlights
Our society of the 21st century makes great demands on its members in virtually every part of their lives
Processing and acquiring knowledge is a key to a modern learning approach, and collaboration and community-based practice for knowledge and skills development are important success factors [8, 47]
The authors address multiple aspects of a complex learning setting by the following ecosystem components: (1) the learners and the teacher as the most important user groups in the learning process, (2) the content for the learning process, (3) the organization in which the learning take place, (4) the environment students need for the learning process, (5) technology that supports the learning process, (6) skills to perform in the ecosystem, and (7) support to help within the system if they are facing problems
Summary
The basic concept of ecosystem was first introduced by a British ecologist A.G. Tansley. In order to describe a particular instance of a model, the following characteristics have to be specified: (1) the living and nonliving components as well as proper level of aggregation, (2) the temporal extent and the temporal and spatial scale, (3) the physical boundaries of the system, (4) the description of type and extent of relations and interaction between identified components, and (5) constraints on system behaviors [38] Given these insights, it is obvious that the model of the ecosystem strongly emphasizes a holistic approach highlighting the significance of each component, their behaviours, relationship and interactions, as well as the environmental borders in order to create a new system or examine an existing system, or form an effective and successful system. The following section explores the applicability of the ecosystem approach for E-learning 2.0
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