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Information and Communication Technologies and Real-Life Learning: New Education for the Knowledge Society (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology)

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Here is a writeup of a conference that tries to peer into the future and anticipate changes in society. Where these are driven by an increasing focus on knowledge intensive skills.

It posits that several roles will have to adapt. Learning is seen as being increasingly not just the formal primary and secondary schooling, plus perhaps a tertiary degree. Instead, it is meant to be an ongoing lifelong activity. This will require a recalibration by educational institutions, as to who their customers are. Expect an increase in "adult education" extension courses, over and above what already exists. Plus, that even the definition of an educational institution might change. In part, to reflect a growing online pedagogy.

People will also have to change their expectations. The book delves into suggestions that people must expect and be willing to seek out new sources of skills.

To some extent, all this was discussed decades ago. By luminaries like Alvin Toffler in his seminal "Future Shock". Well, it is a bit of a shock to realise that here we are in the 21st century and some of the earlier postulated changes did happen and are happening.

It will be interesting to see how the book's ideas play out.