Applied Policies for Lifelong Learning in Greece: The Opportunity of E-Learning for Large Adult Populations

Life long learning is one of the three basic axes on which Greece bases all of its efforts to upgrade Greek reality in all levels, such as the financial, the social and the cultural in both terms of quantity and quality. To win the bet of adult education in the country, all possible ways of delivering educational and training services should be explored and used. Distance learning has to be used more widely in parallel and additionally with the traditional educational settings. The use of electronic means in distance learning shows remarkable results. In Greece the use of distance e-learning is relatively poor thus the corresponding data, financial and educational are equally poor for a thorough financial comparison between traditional education with e-learning. The present paper attempts to focus on the newly established Center for Distance Adult Education in comparison with the traditional Adult Education Centers and concludes with the results of the analysis and the proposals for establishing a national policy for distance adult e-learning. Key-Words: -Distance Learning, Adult Education, Electronic Means of Education, National Policy Proceedings of the 3rd WSEAS/IASME International Conference on ENGINEERING EDUCATION, Vouliagmeni, Greece, July 11-13, 2006 (pp26-33)