LIFELONG LEARNING CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR TRADITIONAL UNIVERSITIES

Abstract

Through increasing differentiation of skills and globalization, it has become necessary to continually update knowledge and competences to ensure an individual’s life development and self-fulfilment. To ensure that the Republic of Moldova maintains its high standard of living and social cohesion, it is necessary to further enhance the citizens’ high level of qualification and to draw less educated people into the modern society. Responding to the rapid economic and social changes, lifelong learning aims to actively deal with the dynamics of changing the environment and to take advantage of new opportunities in the social, cultural and employment contexts. The development of the informational society and the widespread diffusion of information technologies give rise to new opportunities for learning and establish new challenges and practices regarding the way how teaching and learning should be organized and carried out.