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"E-Learning Time" an der Freien Universität Berlin
Abstract zum Vortrag "E-learning goes social – policy becomes e-inclusive"
Prof. Tapio Varis
Universität Tampere, Finnland
It is widely understood that the most important skills of the future would be communication skills. Today everyone is able to access vast amounts of data without a mediator. Critical thinking skills are needed as a productive and positive activity. Traditional ways of learning are challenged by social web and Wikipedia applications like Wikiversity where learners teach and teachers learn. In general, Open Educational Resources and Open Access Software Services create new learning communities.
According to the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning higher education institutions worldwide face significant challenges related to providing increased access, while containing or reducing costs. Meeting increasing and increasingly varied demand for quality higher education is an important consideration in policy debate and institutional development in many countries. New developments in higher education – from virtual universities and cross-border education to e-learning, blended learning and open educational resources – all speak to the efforts on the part of the traditional higher education community, as well as new providers, to address the challenges they face in increasing provision
As noted by the EU eLearning Conference in Brussels, May 2005, digital literacy is a fundamental element of the knowledge society. Ensuring that everyone has the necessary skills, competences, experiences and attitudes to make effective use of ICT is probably the biggest challenge of all. The concept of digital literacy in a broad sense is a way of thinking but it can also be understood as complementary to the concept of media literacy. Digital literacy as media literacy aims to develop both critical understanding of and active participation in the media, work and society. Digital and media literacy is about developing people’s critical and creative abilities.
Digital literacy is not just a simple operative and technical consciousness that is made up of nothing more than technical knowledge. It is the complex acquisition process of an individual of humanity combined with their abilities and intellectual competencies (perceptive, cognitive, emotive) and practical competencies (physiological and motor). To reduce digital literacy exclusively to the skills of using a computer is a crude simplification and a loss in meaning. Using a computer requires diverse and complex previous knowledge. It also introduces the individual and humanity to new contexts, which demands mental, intellectual, profound and complex changes. In essence, digital literacy is a complicated process that consists of acquiring a new technique. In order to achieve this we need new renaissance education: a holistic approach combining technology with art, science, humanities and moral cultural values of good life.
