La integració de les tic a la universitatmodels, problemes i reptes

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Theoretical and conceptual framework1.The university in the context of the knowledge society. For more than a decade any publication related to social sciences has been alert to the changes that are happening in our societu.It is even said that a new society is emerging.This new society would be the so called Third Wave(Toffler 1981) succeeding the two former ones, namely the agricultural society around 10.000bc and the industrial societu that started developing around 1700 ad. Both brought about important changes in the way peoplee lived. These changes lead to modifications in the social structure and organization of everyday life. Giving up a nomadic lifestyle based on hunting and fishing for sedentary agricultural structures implied a substantial change in the development of mankind. In the same way the organization of labour was enormously affected by the arrival of machines that brought about division of labour and a new culture not only in industry, but also in the way people organized their lives taking advantage of the industrial progess: transportation saw considerable changes and distances have definitely shrunk. Indeed, today we also stand at the beginning of a number of changes that are changing the social,economical,political and cultural conditions of our society. We are looking at changes that according to Castells (1997) allow us to say that we live in a new society because it has transformed its way of development.Some manifestations of these changes are the following:.Economical globalization.An ever more competitive labour market.The advent of a media culture.Education and training as the foundations that help to confront the change.The democratization of the access to information and knowledge.The delocalization of knowledge and the disappearance of distances.The growth of accumulated knowledge.New operators in the training marketEvery time change happens, or is close to happening we are invaded with insecurity due to the uncertainty they generate.But often change also brings about new opportunities-opportunities for progress, for a general improvement in societu and particularly in the everiday life of the citizens.The convergence of the latest scientific discoveries in telecommunications and technology in general, have begun to allow for important changes in information production, storage and access and have initiated what people already know as the third revolution,the post-industrial revolution or the information and Knowledge Society.