1st Edition

Smart Lifelong Learning

By Wilfried R. Vanhonacker Copyright 2026
132 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

132 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

132 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Chapter 1: Learning About Lifelong Learning, Chapter 2: Lifelong Learning is Crucial to All of Us, Chapter 3: Learning and Lifelong Learning, Chapter 4: Learning Challenges in Lifelong Learning, Chapter 5: Rightsizing the Opportunity, Chapter 6: The Critical Path, Chapter 7: The S3L Paradigm for Smart Lifelong Learning, Chapter 8: Reshaping Formal Education for Lifelong Learning Engagement, Chapter 9: Creating Learning Environments, Chapter 10: Learning at the Speed of Need, Chapter 11: My Generation’s Dual Task

Biography

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.