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Learning in a faster, globalized world

Education and learning, in higher education and elsewhere, is now challenged profoundly by technologies, policies, and cultural forces of a depth and scope that was difficult to foresee only a few years back. Today we ask ourselves how the coming of social media impacts on well-being. We ask ourselves how the world of 24/7 media changes our means and modes of acquiring knowledge and insight. More information is available than at any time in human history, and yet the “knowledge industry” is challenged by unprecedented monopoly of ownership.

How do educators meet the challenges?

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Higher Education´s´digital future

Education systems and not the least higher education institutions were forged in a time where books, libraries and written texts provided the key learning pathways. In a sense they still do but digitally. The benefits are obvious: Access to world libraries is available at the touch of a button. The less obvious implications may want our attention in the sense that education´s digital future is not so much a question of human capacity to absorb insights, the consequences of not having to talk to a library or pick up a book physically.

Have you sensed a layer of impatience in your daily reading lately? Lack of focus, lack of attention to tackle the longer text? Might it be that something is going on that is worthy of our critical attention to our digital futures ?

Contact Education

Exploring learning innovation designs across various subject fields, a key observation relates to needs and calls for variations in pedagogical philosophy: Teacher-student relations are changing, knowledge consumption habits are changing, reading is challenged by watching, and definitions of “book length” are changing.The idea of “Contact Education” refers to learning designs where students are confronted with real life problems and solutions debates that engage beyond the cognitive.

Problem-based learning. situated learning, design-thinking and digital storytelling: All examples of approaches to learning that appeals to intellectual curiosity but also affective and interactive ways of knowing.

Education, technology & innnovation

Technologies change, but education has been driven by technology since the invention of drawing, reading and writing. From the works of Walter Ong, Marshal McLuhan and others of that time, to more contemporary authors reflecting on accelerating technological change and media convergence, the education challenge is the same: To maintain a steadfast focus on the human element and values at stake.

We are living through a period of unprecedented social change. Much of it is driven by a fast accelerating technological evolution, where artificial generative intelligence post quite existential threats to established understandings of what knowledge is. Political relations are changing unpredictably fast, as well. Accordingly, our theories, concepts and models of education are also in need of critical updates.

NEW EDUCATION & LEARNING DESIGNS