Presentation given to Cupertino YMCA members and community. Definition, benefits of lifelong learning. Local and non-local resources and options, including in-person and online, no cost and fee-based.
2. Anyone who stops learning is old,
whether at 20 or [120]. Anyone
who keeps learning stays young.
Henry Ford
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3. • What does it mean to you?
• What examples can you think of?
• What does it “look like”?
What Is Lifelong Learning?
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4. What Is Lifelong Learning?
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8. Best of Both Worlds?
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9. • Learning pursued throughout life
• Ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated:
Learning for personal or professional reasons
• Flexible, diverse:
Available at different times and places
What Is Lifelong Learning?
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10. 1. Mental stimulation
2. Connecting with family
3. Expressing yourself
4. Exploring physical activities
5. Keeping current
Informal Benefits
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11. Informal Benefits (cont’d)
6. Improving job skills
7. Exploring “encore career”
8. Building friendships
9. Doing what you never had time for
10.Having fun!
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12. • Less depression
• More social engagement
• Better emotional balance
• Higher health awareness
• More active citizenship
• Better personal fulfillment
• Increased employability
• Increased creativity
• Higher initiative
• More responsiveness
• Enhanced adaptability
• Increased independence
• Improved communication
• Reduced cognitive decline
Formal Benefits
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13. • In-Person vs. Online
• Experiential vs. Intellectual
• Non-Credit vs. Credit/Certificate
• Individual vs. Group or Team
Options
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14. • Cooking Schools • Meetups
• Music schools • Lectures
• Outdoor Groups • Art Schools
General In-Person Options
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16. Socrates
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There is nothing more
notable in Socrates than that
he found time, when he was
an old man, to learn music
and dancing, and thought it
time well spent. ― Michel de Montaigne
26. Featured Providers
• Cambridge U
• Harvard U
• Library of Congress
• MIT
• Nat Archives & Rec Admin
• Ohio State U
• Open U
• Stanford U
• TED
• Yale U
• App Development
• Ancient Greece & Rome
• Astronomy
• Business Skills
• Classic Readings
• Mind & Brain
• US History & Politics
• Virtual Field Trips
Free On-Line Individual Options:
iTunes U
(some) Collections
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29. YouTube
• Free
• Searchable
• Minimal oversight
• (pretty much) Anyone can put any video up
• Uses
• Entertainment
• Learning
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30. YouTube – for Entertainment
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31. YouTube – for Education
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32. Tablets, SmartPhones (Mobile Apps)
• Can be used for watching educational videos
• Mostly games and apps
• Mostly used alone
• Mostly free or low-cost
• Some apps are educational
• Mostly(?) for kids
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33. Words with My Mother
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34. “Brain Fitness” Apps
• Examples
• Lumosity
• BrainHQ (Posit Science)
• FitBrains
• “Freemium” models
• Be very careful about their claims
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35. • Credit, Audit, or Certificate of Accomplishment
• Paid or Free
• “Traditional” Online
• MOOC
• SPOC (blended, hybrid, or flipped)
More Formal On-Line Options
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36. • Intended to provided world-class university
education experiences for underserved people
• But most success: educated people in
developed countries
• Early problems >> current improvements
• Still to come: funding model?
MOOCs
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37. • Creativity: Music to My Ears
• Stanford University
• 22,000 students
• Demographics
• Age range
• Education
• Reasons for Taking
• Location
Example Hybrid (MOOC + Classroom)
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39. My Lifelong Learning – So Far
• Chinese, French, Spanish, Italian, German languages
• Italian, Chinese, Indian, French, Thai cooking
• Household repairs
• Gardening w CA Native Plants; Planting Techniques
• Photography, Pottery, Faux Finishes
• Statistics, Stocks, Bonds, & Investing
• Website Development, Usability Design, Photoshop
• Gerontology, Taking Care of Your Aging Parents
• College Counseling
• Folk Dancing
• Yoga, Meditation, Science of Compassion
• Creativity and Innovation
• Jewelry making
• Small Business and Entrepreneurship
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Editor's Notes
Audience Participation
Is the what comes to mind when you think about LLL?
Nola Ochs, 95 yo college grad – oldest grad at the time, in 2007, Kansas
Chao Mu-he, 96 yo college grad
Pace Graduation Day – students in senior living community took computer classes
Audience Participation - What does it mean to you?
Tamae Watanabeap 73-year-old-becomes-oldest-woman-to-climb-Mount-Everest
91-yo Woody Brown, oldest living male surfer
77 yo Ernestine Shepherd oldest female body builder
100 yo Fauja Singh, oldest marathon runner “Sikhs in the City”! Took up serious running at age of 89; lives in UK
Audience Participation –
What does LLL mean to you?
Mastering learning tools rather than acquisition of structured knowledge.
Equipping people for the types of work needed now and in the future including innovation and adaptation of learning to future work environments.
Living together, and with others – peacefully resolving conflict, discovering other people and their cultures, fostering community capability, individual competence and capacity, economic resilience, and social inclusion.
A person’s complete development: mind and body, intelligence, sensitivity, aesthetic appreciation and spirituality.
Not just about graduating with a degree, or getting a new job, or getting ahead in your job
Mental stimulation
Keeping current with kids, grandkids – amaze them with your texting skills! NZ girls started a highly successful biz; use Urban Dictionary to translate what they’re saying.
Self-expression – dance, writing, visual arts
Physical exploration – sports, travel, exercise
Keeping up to date on news, cultural events, arts, sports
Update existing or new skills (relating to job, volunteer, or neither)
Explore an “encore career”
Renewing or creating friendships – look up old classmates, partners, military buddies, co-workers, spouses, neighbors; meet new people with similar interests; pick a cause
Doing what you haven’t had time for- because you’ve been working and or taking care of family members your whole life
Fun! (solo or group games)
[Based on www.psychologytoday.com/blog/media-spotlight/201210/can-lifelong-learning-help-we-age]
[Based on Delor’s Pillars of Education http://www.llcq.org.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=12 ]
[European Commission (2001) Making a European area of lifelong learning a reality, Brussels, COM(2001)]
Explain what these differences are
Socrates Tearing away Alcibiades from Sensuality
Several companies specialize in tours for older adults,
several for educational travel.
Some do both:
Road Scholar, EarthWatch, Smithsonian Journeys, Grand Circle Travel Foundation
Road Scholar, used to be ElderHostel
Live Demo?
Road Scholar, EarthWatch, Smithsonian Journeys, Grand Circle Travel Foundation
Road Scholar, used to be ElderHostel
Even more options, wouldn’t fit.
Live Demo?
Explain
LIVE DEMO???
Ask for interest areas, geo areas, look for groups
On your own device (computer, tablet, smart phone)
Alone or with someone
Own time, own pace
Khan Academy
iTunes podcasts, iTunes U (mostly college lectures)
TED talks - “Technology, Entertainment, Design” and so much more!
YouTube (lots of how-to videos) example from audience?
Go to KhanAcademy.org >>Learn >> Browse All
Khan Courses
Started as uncle helping nephew with math, made short videos in his apt
High schoolers and college students use
Expanded to other fields
Some video, some text
Eg of Khan Art
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history/introduction-to-art-history/media/v/tempera-paint
Online community available
iTunes podcasts, iTunes U (mostly college lectures)
Lynda.com; Freemium; mostly computer, technology
TED talks - “Technology, Entertainment, Design” and so much more!
YouTube (lots of how-to videos) example from audience?
DEMO???
Who’s already familiar with them? Has anyone here ever listened to them?
These are the category areas
Mostly audio only, some have video as well
May be quite short (less than 10 mins) to lecture length, 60+ mins
All free, as far as I know
subscribe to individual series, new ones show up in your iTunes library
May include links to supplement reading material, etc. on websites
Some supplemental material not free, might require creating an account, subscribe
DEMO????
iTunes U –
mostly college lectures
Mostly video of lecturer, with or without PowerPoint slides
Tons of providers, these are the most well-known
These are some of the most commonly watched used topic collections
Feature different material from different universities,
different individual topics
(Technology, Entertainment, Design) – but so much moreOther big topics: Business, Science, Global Issues
Over 1700 talks available online
Series of global conference events, general and special-topic
Invited speakers, very polished presentations, high-quality sound and video
each talk is 18 mins or less
Interaction is limited to comments online
If possible
How many of you are NOT familiar with YouTube?
If nec’y explain that you can filter, rate, subscribe, etc.
There’s a video for pretty much everything
Dog park - clipping sggn
Suggestions from Audience?
Does everyone know what a tablet computer is, like an iPad?
How many people have tablets or smartphones?
Educational apps: many for children, but others:
in fact, TED, Khan Academy come up as the top 2 educational aps
Also foreign language apps,
Hesitate to introduce this as separate topic:
Confusion between learning/education and what might be called brain health, brain training, brain fitness
Anyone here using lumosity or something else?
Traditional online – I’ve taken several classes at DeAnza, UCLA, ed2go, etc;
About 20-40 students
Paid
Online comms with students and instructor
Readings online or offline
Post assignments online, comment on each others assignments
MOOC
A big deal in the past few years
underserved people living in remote areas, or who couldn't get to/afford such an education.
Early problems: High dropout rates, low satisfaction rates in original models
Changes to make it more high-touch, more feedback, more engaging, more personal.
Class I’m taking
Creativity: Music to My Ears : Innovation, Collaboration, Design Thinking
6 week class meets 3 times on Stanford Campus
Most students only taking the online part
If not on campus: watch videos, read lectures, read professor’s book
Lots of online communication, collaborative projects, teams
National Origin: ~ 50% from North America, 10-15% @ Asia, SA, Western Europe, Eastern Europe; ~5% CA, Africa, Mideast, Aust/NZ
Ages: <18 to 70+, ~70% 23-40, rest skewed to older ages
Ed bkgd:
• 50% graduate degrees
35% college degrees
15% high school
Reasons for Taking (multiple)
80% Sounded fun
55% Sounded educational
~30% Hope to help my career
~20% Meet new people
Professions
Most from Art & Design, Business, Education, Engineering
Also: Architecture, Entertainment, Finance, Law, Life Science, Media, Medicine, Social Science, Physical Science, Social Service, Sports, Transportation
education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and the world better than you found it
Marian Wright Edelman