Sustainable development of education: mutual links of technology and pedagogy

• Published in: Otkrytoe Obrazovanie no. 1; pp. 34 - 43
• Main Authors: Starodubtsev, Vyacheslav A., Frantcuzskaia, Evgeniia O.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Plekhanov Russian University of Economics 01.02.2017
• Subjects: educational technology; future education forecasts; lifelong education; online education resources
• ISSN: 1818-4243; 2079-5939
• DOI: 10.21686/1818-4243-2017-1-34-43

The purpose of the paper is to compare the development trends of information and communication environment, the global educational space and pedagogical ideas, which directly or indirectly affect the application of ICT in education. The study has been based on the foresight results and the content of the Internet publications on the prospects for sustainable development of education in the context of UNESCO Incheon Declaration for Education 2030. The content analysis of pedagogical publications has demonstrated that the current understanding of knowledge appeals to its socialization and dissemination in the global network environment, whose technological basis is rapidly growing. The educational process in the Learning Society is regarded as a distributed one among some formal education establishments (“universities of the world for one”) and the community of content curators. The function of content curators is to deliver comments, generalize and promote new information that supports learning needs of different global network users. The relation model of the subjects of the informational and educational space has been described. The model includes lecturers and learners as well as the content curators. The necessity of humanitarian potential development in the informational and communicational environment has been argued as well as the development of a creative class of people who share their existential experience, knowledge and wisdom. The development of every society member in the robot-based artificial intelligence environment has been considered to be defective without any interpersonal interaction and learners’ activity in the online community. Thus, the psychological and pedagogical theories of connectionism, social learning, multiple intelligences, and some others are to be recognized in the development of hardware and software base for education technologies.