Life-Long Learning Priorities in the Form of the Current Era Literacies from the Perspective of Faculty Members and Students

The aim of this study is to investigate the priorities of lifelong learning in the context of current era Literacies (informational, research, educational, media, Computer, environmental, health, emotional, cultural, and financial).This research is descriptive and analytical in terms of its purpose, and was implemented in a mixed way (interview and scrolling).The statistical population included all faculty members of Payam-e-Noor University and e-learning students of this university in the academic year of 96-97. 372 students and 86 faculty members were selected by stratified random sampling. In the first step, after studying the literature and background and conducting a semi-structured interview with the experts of the educational system, the literacies of the current era were extracted, and then in the second step, two special checklists for the Faculty members and students were distributed. The results of Friedman's test showed that both faculty members and students have selected information literacy as their first priority, then health literacy was ranked second, students selected emotional literacy as the third grade, while Faculty members' financial literacy was ranked third. Both faculty members and students chose media literacy as the fourth grade. Also, the results of independent t-test for comparing the study subjects showed that from the view point of faculty members the financial, computer, research and educational Literacies are significantly more important while from students' viewpoint environmental, and emotional Literacies are significantly more important. Also for other Literacies, we did not find any difference. In the end, a conceptual model was proposed to prioritize the literacies from the viewpoint of students and faculty members.