The urban grass-roots library is an important part of the public cultural service system,and also a place to carry out national reading and lifelong learning,which is of great significance to the construction of a lea...The urban grass-roots library is an important part of the public cultural service system,and also a place to carry out national reading and lifelong learning,which is of great significance to the construction of a learning society.In this paper,the development and evolution of urban grassroots libraries in China are reviewed,and the current situation and usage issues of grassroots libraries in Beijing are analyzed.Moreover,the development strategy of idea stores in London,UK is studied,and characteristics are summarized,and possible references are sought.In the new era,urban grassroots libraries should integrate into communities with multiple functions and play a more sufficient role in public education,learning and training,and other aspects.展开更多
Lifelong learning is a focused issue explored by many scholars.After having reviewed the practices in lifelong leaning policies adopted in many countries and organizations,this paper analyzes the current situation in ...Lifelong learning is a focused issue explored by many scholars.After having reviewed the practices in lifelong leaning policies adopted in many countries and organizations,this paper analyzes the current situation in lifelong learning policies in China,thus to satisfy people's need to live and develop,fulfill spiritual world and level up the quality of life.展开更多
A landmark in the realization of UNESCO’s Sustainability Goals,Education for All(SDG4),was passed when the organization’s Recommendation of Open Educational Resources(OER)was uniformly adopted in 2019.Now it is time...A landmark in the realization of UNESCO’s Sustainability Goals,Education for All(SDG4),was passed when the organization’s Recommendation of Open Educational Resources(OER)was uniformly adopted in 2019.Now it is time to transfer from the consciousness of OER to their mainstream realization at all levels,micro,meso,and macro,including all stakeholders,such as governments,institutions,academics,teachers,administrators,librarians,students,learners,and the civil service.The OER Recommendation includes five areas:building capacity and utilizing OER;developing supportive policies;ensuring effectiveness;promoting the creation of sustainable OER models;promoting and facilitating international collaboration;monitoring and evaluation.OER are valued as a catalyst for innovation and the achievement of UNESCO’s SDG 4,education for all,lifelong learning,social justice,and human rights.The OER Recommendation will be a catalyst for the realization of several other SDGs.Because access to quality OER concerns human rights and social justice,this Recommendation is vital.In 2020,the effects of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic clearly demonstrated the importance of opening up education and the access to internationally recognized,qualified learning resources.This article describes and discusses how the promise of resilient,sustainable quality open education can be fulfilled in the new normal and the next normal.展开更多
Objectives: To analyse motivation and preferences of pharmacists who participate in CE (continuing education) to develop suitable lifelong learning programmes for pharmacists. Methods: An online questionnaire, whi...Objectives: To analyse motivation and preferences of pharmacists who participate in CE (continuing education) to develop suitable lifelong learning programmes for pharmacists. Methods: An online questionnaire, which explored the motivation and preferences of the pharmacists to lifelong learning, was sent to all members of the Royal Dutch Pharmaceutical Society (4321) in the Netherlands. The data were analysed using a non-hierarchical clustering technique. Key findings: Two clusters of pharmacists were discovered. Cluster A pharmacists (n = 474) were more motivated by credit points (63.5% vs. 47.2%), personal interest (84.1% vs. 56.3%), updating knowledge (73.8% vs. 56.8%) and topicality of CE courses (47.7% vs. 26.1%). Cluster B pharmacists (n = 199) were predominantly motivated by the aspect "duty as a care-giver" (97.0% vs. 0 % in cluster A). Pharmacists who belonged to cluster A tended to be women (60.5%), often worked part-time (29.3%) and mostly preferred lectures (71.1%). Cluster B pharmacists consisted of statistically significantly more male pharmacists (52.8%, p = 0.001), worked more full time (77.4%, p = 0.009) and mostly preferred blended learning (62.3%, p = 0.047). Conclusions: These results suggest the use of different education formats for different kinds of pharmacists to participate in CE activities.展开更多
Museums offer a lifelong edutainment environment with flexible choices for the public and provide fruitful interdisciplinary learning resources to support competency-based education.However,the lack of proper scaffold...Museums offer a lifelong edutainment environment with flexible choices for the public and provide fruitful interdisciplinary learning resources to support competency-based education.However,the lack of proper scaffolding and supports in museums negatively affect learner learning.Further,the individual differences need to be considered to effectively support the diverse learners learning in museums.In this study,an innovative learning model to support competency education for lifelong learning in museums is proposed.A game-based learning service named CoboFun that offers various types of problem-solving activities was developed to facilitate learners’interaction with exhibits and their peers in the museum.To examine the service design of CoboFun,learners’perceptions were evaluated and the differences in their cognitive styles were examined(Field Independent(FI)and Field Dependent(FD)).The results showed that both FI and FD learners enjoyed learning with CoboFun but that flexible learning tools needed to be provided to satisfy the different needs for the learners with different cognitive styles.展开更多
Strengthening moral learning may become available to us by bringing phronesis and transformative learning in a common theoretical space. For both Aristotle and Mezirow, the exercise of morality, or rising to the stand...Strengthening moral learning may become available to us by bringing phronesis and transformative learning in a common theoretical space. For both Aristotle and Mezirow, the exercise of morality, or rising to the standard of moral choice, decision, and action, is not the result of an intuitive achievement or a sudden understanding of a morally demanding situation but a lifelong affair. Our strategy here addresses three aims: Firstly, to invoke and reclaim the endemic bond between education in the broader sense of paideia and the significant role that reeds to be re-ascribed to moral education. This allows a turn towards qualitative features and makes room for an inclusion of moral education, or values education, within education. Secondly, to portray the exercise of autonomy, choice, and judgment as a result of paideutic development; both theories share the assumption that moral learning rests on constant reflection upon past experiences and the zetesis of future goals. Thirdly, to focus on the way one reclaims the right to exercise judgment, whenever this is required. A joint study of the two theories may enlighten the content of this lifelong reflective procedure.展开更多
The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of community public welfare education activities on residents’awareness of lifelong learning.Through the analysis of the connotation,form and mechanism of community ...The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of community public welfare education activities on residents’awareness of lifelong learning.Through the analysis of the connotation,form and mechanism of community public welfare education activities,the importance of improving the comprehensive quality of residents and promoting the harmonious development of society is revealed.At the same time,it analyzes the problems faced by current community public welfare education activities,including uneven allocation of resources,single content forms,weak teachers and insufficient capital investment,and puts forward corresponding solutions,in order to provide theoretical basis and practical guidance for optimizing community public welfare education activities and enhancing residents’awareness of lifelong learning.展开更多
The enhancement of students'independent learning acumen is a cornerstone objective within college English education.Elevating students'proficiency in independent learning necessitates a thorough understanding ...The enhancement of students'independent learning acumen is a cornerstone objective within college English education.Elevating students'proficiency in independent learning necessitates a thorough understanding of its significance and the implementation of effective cultivation strategies.By fostering an environment conducive to independent learning and imparting essential skills,students can proficiently navigate autonomous learning endeavors,thereby preparing themselves for a lifetime of scholarly pursuits.This paper delves into the multifaceted dimensions of independent learning,elucidates pertinent cultivation strategies,and underscores the imperative of equipping students with the tools necessary for lifelong learning and academic success.Through this comprehensive approach,students can develop the resilience and adaptability needed to excel in their academic endeavors and beyond.展开更多
Crowd counting has important applications in public safety and pandemic control.A robust and practical crowd counting system has to be capable of continuously learning with the newly incoming domain data in real-world...Crowd counting has important applications in public safety and pandemic control.A robust and practical crowd counting system has to be capable of continuously learning with the newly incoming domain data in real-world scenarios instead of fitting one domain only.Off-the-shelf methods have some drawbacks when handling multiple domains:(1)the models will achieve limited performance(even drop dramatically)among old domains after training images from new domains due to the discrepancies in intrinsic data distributions from various domains,which is called catastrophic forgetting;(2)the well-trained model in a specific domain achieves imperfect performance among other unseen domains because of domain shift;(3)it leads to linearly increasing storage overhead,either mixing all the data for training or simply training dozens of separate models for different domains when new ones are available.To overcome these issues,we investigate a new crowd counting task in incremental domain training setting called lifelong crowd counting.Its goal is to alleviate catastrophic forgetting and improve the generalization ability using a single model updated by the incremental domains.Specifically,we propose a self-distillation learning framework as a benchmark(forget less,count better,or FLCB)for lifelong crowd counting,which helps the model leverage previous meaningful knowledge in a sustainable manner for better crowd counting to mitigate the forgetting when new data arrive.A new quantitative metric,normalized Backward Transfer(nBwT),is developed to evaluate the forgetting degree of the model in the lifelong learning process.Extensive experimental results demonstrate the superiority of our proposed benchmark in achieving a low catastrophic forgetting degree and strong generalization ability.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51708001).
文摘The urban grass-roots library is an important part of the public cultural service system,and also a place to carry out national reading and lifelong learning,which is of great significance to the construction of a learning society.In this paper,the development and evolution of urban grassroots libraries in China are reviewed,and the current situation and usage issues of grassroots libraries in Beijing are analyzed.Moreover,the development strategy of idea stores in London,UK is studied,and characteristics are summarized,and possible references are sought.In the new era,urban grassroots libraries should integrate into communities with multiple functions and play a more sufficient role in public education,learning and training,and other aspects.
文摘Lifelong learning is a focused issue explored by many scholars.After having reviewed the practices in lifelong leaning policies adopted in many countries and organizations,this paper analyzes the current situation in lifelong learning policies in China,thus to satisfy people's need to live and develop,fulfill spiritual world and level up the quality of life.
文摘A landmark in the realization of UNESCO’s Sustainability Goals,Education for All(SDG4),was passed when the organization’s Recommendation of Open Educational Resources(OER)was uniformly adopted in 2019.Now it is time to transfer from the consciousness of OER to their mainstream realization at all levels,micro,meso,and macro,including all stakeholders,such as governments,institutions,academics,teachers,administrators,librarians,students,learners,and the civil service.The OER Recommendation includes five areas:building capacity and utilizing OER;developing supportive policies;ensuring effectiveness;promoting the creation of sustainable OER models;promoting and facilitating international collaboration;monitoring and evaluation.OER are valued as a catalyst for innovation and the achievement of UNESCO’s SDG 4,education for all,lifelong learning,social justice,and human rights.The OER Recommendation will be a catalyst for the realization of several other SDGs.Because access to quality OER concerns human rights and social justice,this Recommendation is vital.In 2020,the effects of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic clearly demonstrated the importance of opening up education and the access to internationally recognized,qualified learning resources.This article describes and discusses how the promise of resilient,sustainable quality open education can be fulfilled in the new normal and the next normal.
文摘Objectives: To analyse motivation and preferences of pharmacists who participate in CE (continuing education) to develop suitable lifelong learning programmes for pharmacists. Methods: An online questionnaire, which explored the motivation and preferences of the pharmacists to lifelong learning, was sent to all members of the Royal Dutch Pharmaceutical Society (4321) in the Netherlands. The data were analysed using a non-hierarchical clustering technique. Key findings: Two clusters of pharmacists were discovered. Cluster A pharmacists (n = 474) were more motivated by credit points (63.5% vs. 47.2%), personal interest (84.1% vs. 56.3%), updating knowledge (73.8% vs. 56.8%) and topicality of CE courses (47.7% vs. 26.1%). Cluster B pharmacists (n = 199) were predominantly motivated by the aspect "duty as a care-giver" (97.0% vs. 0 % in cluster A). Pharmacists who belonged to cluster A tended to be women (60.5%), often worked part-time (29.3%) and mostly preferred lectures (71.1%). Cluster B pharmacists consisted of statistically significantly more male pharmacists (52.8%, p = 0.001), worked more full time (77.4%, p = 0.009) and mostly preferred blended learning (62.3%, p = 0.047). Conclusions: These results suggest the use of different education formats for different kinds of pharmacists to participate in CE activities.
基金Funding/Acknowledgements:This study is supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China under contract number MOST 108-2511-H-178-001 and MOST 109-2511-H-178-001.
文摘Museums offer a lifelong edutainment environment with flexible choices for the public and provide fruitful interdisciplinary learning resources to support competency-based education.However,the lack of proper scaffolding and supports in museums negatively affect learner learning.Further,the individual differences need to be considered to effectively support the diverse learners learning in museums.In this study,an innovative learning model to support competency education for lifelong learning in museums is proposed.A game-based learning service named CoboFun that offers various types of problem-solving activities was developed to facilitate learners’interaction with exhibits and their peers in the museum.To examine the service design of CoboFun,learners’perceptions were evaluated and the differences in their cognitive styles were examined(Field Independent(FI)and Field Dependent(FD)).The results showed that both FI and FD learners enjoyed learning with CoboFun but that flexible learning tools needed to be provided to satisfy the different needs for the learners with different cognitive styles.
文摘Strengthening moral learning may become available to us by bringing phronesis and transformative learning in a common theoretical space. For both Aristotle and Mezirow, the exercise of morality, or rising to the standard of moral choice, decision, and action, is not the result of an intuitive achievement or a sudden understanding of a morally demanding situation but a lifelong affair. Our strategy here addresses three aims: Firstly, to invoke and reclaim the endemic bond between education in the broader sense of paideia and the significant role that reeds to be re-ascribed to moral education. This allows a turn towards qualitative features and makes room for an inclusion of moral education, or values education, within education. Secondly, to portray the exercise of autonomy, choice, and judgment as a result of paideutic development; both theories share the assumption that moral learning rests on constant reflection upon past experiences and the zetesis of future goals. Thirdly, to focus on the way one reclaims the right to exercise judgment, whenever this is required. A joint study of the two theories may enlighten the content of this lifelong reflective procedure.
文摘The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of community public welfare education activities on residents’awareness of lifelong learning.Through the analysis of the connotation,form and mechanism of community public welfare education activities,the importance of improving the comprehensive quality of residents and promoting the harmonious development of society is revealed.At the same time,it analyzes the problems faced by current community public welfare education activities,including uneven allocation of resources,single content forms,weak teachers and insufficient capital investment,and puts forward corresponding solutions,in order to provide theoretical basis and practical guidance for optimizing community public welfare education activities and enhancing residents’awareness of lifelong learning.
文摘The enhancement of students'independent learning acumen is a cornerstone objective within college English education.Elevating students'proficiency in independent learning necessitates a thorough understanding of its significance and the implementation of effective cultivation strategies.By fostering an environment conducive to independent learning and imparting essential skills,students can proficiently navigate autonomous learning endeavors,thereby preparing themselves for a lifetime of scholarly pursuits.This paper delves into the multifaceted dimensions of independent learning,elucidates pertinent cultivation strategies,and underscores the imperative of equipping students with the tools necessary for lifelong learning and academic success.Through this comprehensive approach,students can develop the resilience and adaptability needed to excel in their academic endeavors and beyond.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.62176059,62101136,and U1811463)the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project(No.2018SHZDZX01)+3 种基金Zhangjiang Lab,the Shanghai Municipal of Science and Technology Project(No.20JC1419500)the Shanghai Sailing Program(No.21YF1402800)the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai(No.21ZR1403600)the Shanghai Center for Brain Science and Brain-inspired Technology。
文摘Crowd counting has important applications in public safety and pandemic control.A robust and practical crowd counting system has to be capable of continuously learning with the newly incoming domain data in real-world scenarios instead of fitting one domain only.Off-the-shelf methods have some drawbacks when handling multiple domains:(1)the models will achieve limited performance(even drop dramatically)among old domains after training images from new domains due to the discrepancies in intrinsic data distributions from various domains,which is called catastrophic forgetting;(2)the well-trained model in a specific domain achieves imperfect performance among other unseen domains because of domain shift;(3)it leads to linearly increasing storage overhead,either mixing all the data for training or simply training dozens of separate models for different domains when new ones are available.To overcome these issues,we investigate a new crowd counting task in incremental domain training setting called lifelong crowd counting.Its goal is to alleviate catastrophic forgetting and improve the generalization ability using a single model updated by the incremental domains.Specifically,we propose a self-distillation learning framework as a benchmark(forget less,count better,or FLCB)for lifelong crowd counting,which helps the model leverage previous meaningful knowledge in a sustainable manner for better crowd counting to mitigate the forgetting when new data arrive.A new quantitative metric,normalized Backward Transfer(nBwT),is developed to evaluate the forgetting degree of the model in the lifelong learning process.Extensive experimental results demonstrate the superiority of our proposed benchmark in achieving a low catastrophic forgetting degree and strong generalization ability.