TY - JOUR
T1 - Five trends of education and technology in a sustainable future
AU - Burbules, Nicholas C.
AU - Fan, Guorui
AU - Repp, Philip
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper grew out of the Sino-American Symposium on Future Issues Affecting Quality of Life, organized and sponsored by the Timothy Light Center for Chinese Studies, on the Western Michigan University campus, May 4?5, 2019. It was benefited enormously by comments and suggestions from the reviewers of this journal.
PY - 2020/6
Y1 - 2020/6
N2 - Quality education is one of the pillars in the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. This overall goal can be connected to some general trends affecting education in the information age. We argue that education is key to the future quality of human life and the sustainability of the world. Generally, education is being transformed in both formal and informal learning contexts by new digital technologies. Overall, some of these major innovations and how they are changing education can be summarized into the following aspects: 1) our educational aims and objectives; 2) educational ecologies and contexts of learning; 3) the processes of learning; 4) the processes of teaching; and 5) educational governance and policy. Meanwhile, we note some of the potential risks and downsides of these technology trends. From the sustainable perspective, our review points to a great potential for educational reform, but it can only be achieved if we are willing to rethink and even abandon some of our traditional ways of doing things in education.
AB - Quality education is one of the pillars in the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. This overall goal can be connected to some general trends affecting education in the information age. We argue that education is key to the future quality of human life and the sustainability of the world. Generally, education is being transformed in both formal and informal learning contexts by new digital technologies. Overall, some of these major innovations and how they are changing education can be summarized into the following aspects: 1) our educational aims and objectives; 2) educational ecologies and contexts of learning; 3) the processes of learning; 4) the processes of teaching; and 5) educational governance and policy. Meanwhile, we note some of the potential risks and downsides of these technology trends. From the sustainable perspective, our review points to a great potential for educational reform, but it can only be achieved if we are willing to rethink and even abandon some of our traditional ways of doing things in education.
KW - Education for sustainable development
KW - Governmental policy
KW - Learning and teaching
KW - Educational transformation
KW - Educational technology
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U2 - 10.1016/j.geosus.2020.05.001
DO - 10.1016/j.geosus.2020.05.001
M3 - Article
SN - 2666-6839
VL - 1
SP - 93
EP - 97
JO - Geography and Sustainability
JF - Geography and Sustainability
IS - 2
ER -