ACTE PACE Summit 2024

“Promoting lifelong learning means creating systems that realize the right to education for people of all ages, and providing opportunities to unlock their potential – for their personal development and for the sustainable economic, social, cultural and environmental development of society.”
UNESCO – Institute for Lifelong Learning, uil.unesco.org/en/unesco-institute/mandate/lifelong-learning, downloaded 5/7/2024. Change is everywhere, it is constant, and it is often unpredictable. How do we, as postsecondary educators, prepare our students for what is increasingly a VUCA world – volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous? One high-impact response is to create educational systems for our students that not only promote, but facilitate, lifelong learning in our communities. During this interactive session, the presenter will lead a discussion addressing the range of learning experiences available to postsecondary students – from micro-credentials to degrees. Then, using a learning engineering approach, the discussion will address how an ecosystem can be created within a community to meet the lifelong learning needs of postsecondary community members. Definitions and frameworks will be provided to enable common language and understandings, serve as guideposts as we journey though the discussion, and work as tools to engender ideas and starting points when participants return home to their communities.