Validation and Recognition of Non-Formal and Informal Learning Outcomes in Organisations of Higher Education in the Context of Pressure for Quality

Abstract

During the last decade strategies of lifelong learning have left the direct discourse of education, and are formulated at the interface of education, policies, and economics, and also other fields. One of the processes that guarantees the productive interface is validation and recognition of non-formal and informal learning outcomes in higher education, which, however, in some countries, and namely, in Lithuania, is still of an innovative nature. In this paper several insights are provided concerning the context for implementation of innovation (validation and recognition of non-formal and informal learning outcomes in higher education), in which quality has an important role in order to maintain the level expectations of general public and academia towards the level of services provided by higher education.