Lifelong learning: english studied through online practices
Lifelong learning: english studied through online practices

Summary/Abstract: My research is concisely described by exemplifying and commenting on the monitoring steps, results and conclusions in the view to expanding online practices and enhancing their effectiveness, corresponding to a growing demand. In this paper I also discuss the role of Web technologies in promoting life-long learning and streamlining knowledge management and diverse forms of applications, the factors that impinge on learning through the life course. By creating scenarios for a future use, the impact of e-learning on the educational environment is examined, with encouraging results in the sense that learners acquire new competences, in the particular field of English studies, pointing out the most important links between Lifelong Learning and adult education. Based on a research project on learning with technology, the results prove the positive changes in languages acquisition by practical experience for the advancement of pedagogical techniques in adult education. My paper is a research-informed presentation of online practices in higher education, as a new pedagogic paradigm, in the information age. I would describe e-learning as a pathway for the future, not replacing the traditional forms of education, but supporting and completing them, in an interactive, collaborative manner. The Faculty I work for (Foreign Languages and Literatures (The “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University – Bucharest) has designed the educational process as a combination of theoretical and practical study of foreign languages assisted by computers. This corresponds to a learning need within the space of democratic discourse and a globalizing process. The suggestions will be gathered and tested for further learning scenarios and so on, steadily promoting and implementing sustainable learning. Theoretical and practical challenges of online teaching and learning are potential drives and opportunities regarding the advancement of techniques used in the study of foreign languages. The virtual setting provided should be subject to the criteria and standards desired and established by a tutor or learners themselves, while online practices foster collaborative group work on a project or for assessment purposes.

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