Learning in the digitally transforming world – challenges and chances

Journal Title: Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny - Year 2016, Vol 61, Issue 3

Abstract

The contemporary university – as any other educational, social, business, or government institution – functions in condition of what David Harvey has called time-space compression: everything is happening here without distances, differences or frontiers; and everything is happening now without past or future. The very structure of the knowledge has changed: it has become complex, interdisciplinary, rather problem-based than discipline-based. Purely intellectual knowledge is no longer relevant; its true value is determined by its potential for commercial application. Besides, with constant advent of new technologies, both knowledge and skills turn obsolete in no time. Thus, the university must equip learners with tools, strategies and resources which would allow them to independently upgrade their knowledge and skills whenever demanded throughout their after-university professional or academic careers. In the present article, I outline new literacies essential for a learner to study in a technology-enhanced global classroom, and review the potential of the new technology for education. I then consider constructing Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) as a means to individualize and support learning in different contexts. Having gained attention of educators since 2004, PLE represents an evolving trend in sustainable education due to its potential to let learners create their own educational spaces in order to direct their own learning, to pursue individual educational goals, and to expand learning far beyond the classroom.<br/><br/>

Authors and Affiliations

Tatiana Kurbanow

Keywords

Related Articles

Diagnoza funkcjonalna jako standard pomocy psychologiczno-pedagogicznej – od założeń teoretycznych do praktyki diagnostyczno-terapeutycznej

The article discusses existing ways of recognising functional diagnosis in theoretical models in the field of psycho-pedagogy. It also examines strategies for the use of these models in diagnostic and therapeutic activit...

Cyberparki jako hybrydowe przestrzenie uczenia się: rozważania na marginesie projektu COST

CyberParks will be hybrid spaces of future cities. Learning in CyberParks will take the form of technology-enhanced outdoor learning and will become an important concept that can be used in practice in order to provide a...

Wstęp

-<br/><br/>

Can we educate a genius? Deliberations on the margins of the writings of Nietzsche

The article deals with the issue of systemic education. The author asks a classic question of whether traditional education systems should concentrate on students with average abilities or maybe they should foster the mo...

Download PDF file
  • EP ID EP188147
  • DOI -
  • Views 112
  • Downloads 0

How To Cite

Tatiana Kurbanow (2016). Learning in the digitally transforming world – challenges and chances. Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny, 61(3), 159-180. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-188147