Foreword
Emeritus Professor of the University of São Paulo, Member of the Executive Committee of the International Council for Open and Distance Learning, and President of the Brazilian Association of Distance Education-ABED
In the past, it was possible to say that “educational innovation” corresponded to an oxymoron, as the vision regarding the role of formal learning was to prepare new generations of students for their future through the study of the past; a concept that now needs to be modified. Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) argued eloquently that the study of the “best that has been thought of and said” so far in the world would be the ideal platform for the cultural development of citizens faced with the anarchy that accompanies ...
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