By John Garrick, Viktor Jakupec, Professor John Hay

Fresh demanding situations dealing with greater and tertiary schooling reminiscent of the impression of globalisation and the emergence of latest applied sciences, have known as for an intensive reconceptualisation of the teaching-learning nexus.
This booklet addresses modern contexts of versatile studying and its practices, and offers insights approximately instructions within which schooling and coaching prone will be required to stick with as a way to enforce versatile studying in quite a few settings. Key matters and debates comprise: work-place established studying. issues lined include:
* the social and fiscal dimensions of versatile studying and delivery
* the results of globalisation and internationalisation for greater education
* versatile studying, wisdom and power
* institutional options for enforcing versatile studying and delivery
* working towards versatile studying via media and new applied sciences

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The professor’s role has been to transfer that content from his or her own mind to those of the students, with little recognition that the content might be changed in the process. In some ways, modern technology has made content transfer much easier but also more trivial, in much the same way that the printing press rendered obsolete a monk’s lifelong dedication to transferring handwritten knowledge from one manuscript to another. Now it is easy for faculty members to produce all their lecture notes on the Internet, in handouts or through multimedia presentations and hence to free up their time for much more individual attention to students.

He points out that for any country, trade is still predominantly within that country’s trading block and specifies that over 60 per cent of European trade is with other European countries. He notes that while we have this media-supported drive towards globalisation, many industries are becoming more specialised and are developing niche markets as local consumer demand varies. One indicator of this trend is the demise of the large national department store chains and the rise of specialty stores, originally for clothes and large items such as furniture and appliances but now also A global society needs flexible learning 19 for food stuffs, especially for high end-cost items such as coffee.

Socio-political changes One of the major political changes in recent history has been the demise of authoritarian rulers in various countries. In Eastern Europe, for example, this has meant increases in the need for basic goods on one hand, and a potential market for goods on the other. People are not only hungry for food but also for freedom; they desire to know not only how to survive and make a decent livelihood in a A global society needs flexible learning 15 free-market system, but also how to set up an independent system of justice, and how to educate jurors.

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