ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the distinction between continuing learning and continuing education. It discusses the kinds of learning identified in the study and demonstrates how Self Managed Learning can broaden, deepen and integrate these, and in such a way that awareness of the process of learning is enhanced. The chapter explores and comments on the implications of the continuous learning approach for Continuing Professional Development (CPD). It examines the perspectives adopted in the report of the Hull study, namely the implications for management in organizations followed by the implications for professional bodies. The process begins with the individual learner's self assessment against the goals of their Strategic Learning Contract, to which the other learning group members and learning group adviser respond, either confirming the person's claim or challenging it. If SML was a feature of CPD then an ethos of continuing learning could be developed in the professional body itself.
