Chapter 7
Education is for life
Why education for life matters
Charles first came across lifelong learning when visiting an Open University summer school in 1974. Its vitality and exuberance illustrated the importance and potential of education for people later in life. Shortly before that, he had taught a couple of Workers Education courses and then maths on a Fresh Horizons course at the City Literary Institute in London, to help enable people who hadnât done well at school to get university opportunities.
With responsibility for education technology as a junior Education Minister in 1998, he then saw the development of MOOCs as emerging educational options, although they had some issues with regard to assessment and ...
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