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lifelong learning center overview
Learning is a lifelong process and University Circle is a Center for Lifelong Learning opportunities. Programs and activities in this learning landscape align to the interests and needs of a broad spectrum of individuals who grow and discover at all stages of life in this knowledge based society.
In 1973 UCI's Community Education Department was established to promote University Circle as a Center for Lifelong Learning by connecting the resources of world-class institutions to students of all ages and backgrounds through informal education programs.
A virtual Center for Lifelong Learning will serve as a portal for programs, exhibits, classes, tours, events and services that enhance the University Circle experience for all visitors and demonstrate the value of informal learning. Get ready to explore, and discover how you can become a lifelong learner in University Circle.
Informal Learning Facts
- Takes place outside the formal classroom setting, i.e. in museums, concert halls, gardens, libraries, community centers, and through the media and web
- Less than 3% of our lives are spent in formal instruction
- Most learning occurs through informal or free-choice learning
- Lifelong process guided by a person's needs and interests
- Learners are engaged in real-world applications in a broad range of content
- May link to formal learning in a spontaneous way
- Settings advance learning by providing a physical contextual environment reflecting the content knowledge to be attained
- Supports discovery and free exploration
- Experiences can act as a catalyst and sustain long term interests in a field of study
- Encourages opportunities for Intergenerational learning
new in the circle
The largest collection of authentic works by Rembrandt in a century is opening this weekend at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The seventeenth century Dutch...
The Cleveland Institute of Music, with the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History (CMNH) are please to present "The Planetarium Project: 360 Degrees of Sight & Sound." The stars aligned for this stellar collaborative project more than two years in the making! CIA students created original 360 degree films, scored by CIM composition students. These films will debut on the newly upgraded, state-of-the-art dome at CMNH's Nathan and Fannye Sharfran Planetarium.
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