Increasing lifelong Learning in European higher education : supporting the teaching changes

Abstract

Implementing the concept of lifelong learning is a major challenge for the future of higher education institutions. They will have to adapt the .onl"nt and lormats of their teaching to face the Following quadruple challenge: the evolution of teachers' role and mission, the emergence of new learning and knowledge legitimisation processes; the integiation of disciplines and thematic contents, the impfimentation of ôrganisational and pedagogical innovation. This paper puts forward the view that these new orientations should take place at the European level