Construction of Lifelong Learning Pathways: A Case Study in Guangdong Province, China

Nonformal education and informal learning have gradually become the main forms of lifelong learning. In order to recognize the prior learning experience of people through informal education and informal learning and motivate people's lifelong learning, constructing the framework of lifelong education qualifications in the digital age has become one of the major strategies of education development and reform in China. This paper takes Guangdong province as an example to depict and analyze the lifelong education qualifications framework system, collaborative governance mode, Specification of Competency Standards, learning outcome accreditation system, digital credit bank operation system, and recognition of qualifications and credits in the Great Bay Area to establish the three in one lifelong education institution in the digital age which consists of Qualifications Framework, learning outcome accreditation system and Credit Bank System. This lifelong learning overpass model reveals the development trend of talent training and the integration of industry and education and collaborative innovation. From the case of Guangdong, the Lifelong learning overpass construction can be more visible and realistic.