Chapter 4

The Third Educational Revolution

The importance of innovation in contemporary society, and the available new technologies that can be used in education, are examined. It is suggested that we are entering the third educational revolution, which implies that substantial changes are needed to the traditional ways we teach and learn, as well as to how knowledge is produced and disseminated. We are now in a world where it is becoming clearer than ever that, despite the essential roles that traditional education systems have played, standard solutions and approaches are not appropriate for meeting new educational and social needs. The first educational revolution is associated to the first schools in Ancient Greece in V–IV centuries BC, the ...

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