Smart Lifelong Learning

Lifelong learning is much more than reskilling and upskilling. Smart Lifelong Learning is about taking on change, learning from change and building competence on the back of change.

Written by a leading educationalist and respected thought-leader on education and pedagogical innovation, this book prompts us to look at lifelong learning and a completely different way to just skills acquisition. The forces that necessitate lifelong learning give rise to unique learning challenges. By focusing on lifelong learning from cradle to grave, the book pushes the boundaries of learning to give rise to novel learning approaches and strategies that align learning journeys with the unfolding reality of persistent change and disruption. The book sets out how everyone operating in the learning space (formal education and beyond) also has to change. The future will require smart matrix learning that is endowment-driven, future-led, and tech-enabled.

The book is for professionals seeking to learn and grow in their careers, but crucially also for educators, educational administrators and policy makers, and corporate training and development managers looking to develop new ways of working.

Wilfried R. Vanhonacker is a bestselling author, academic entrepreneur, and accomplished scholar. Wilfried was the founding co-dean of Russia’s leading private business school, MSM SKOLKOVO (Moscow) and played a key role in the establishment of China’s leading business school, CEIBS (Shanghai). He was also the founding director of INSEAD’s acclaimed PhD program. Parallel to his career in academia, Wilfried was a founding partner of InterChina, a boutique consulting firm headquartered in Beijing, and of HCD Learning, a pedagogical-technology company headquartered in Shanghai. Currently, Wilfried serves as a trustee on the board of the Fundacion de la Innovacion Bankinter (Madrid), the leading technology innovation think tank in Europe. He also acts as a strategy advisor to NICE, China’s leading national technology innovation ecosystem headquartered in Shanghai.