Nowadays Education and Long-Life Learning

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The article reviews the importance of lifelong learning nowadays and the new semantic e-learning environment created over the last years to support the requirements of those conditions. The education in the 21st century is a lifelong learning education with commitment to formal, non-formal, and informal learning supported by New Learning Environments. The e-Academia framework has been adopted and created with real and virtual members of organizations, applications for communication and collaboration, e-Learning, and directory services. The article aims to describe the changes in the education system in the last decades, forced by the innovations of technology and their implementation in everyday life. The characteristics of the New Learning Environments are analyzed, and the concept of lifelong learning is discussed.