Learning Choices: Generating and Integrating Informal Knowledge

Abstract

New forms of information technologies (IT) are growingly made available worldwide and also increasingly being used in education and training. Specifically, IT offer unprecedented opportunities and advantages for their users: access to a vast source of information, communicating ideas effectively and efficiently with different people independent of geographical and temporal barriers, externalising thoughts in various modes of representations, to name just a few. We live in a prevalent knowledge society, and rapid changes in our lives make the need for lifelong and just-in-time learning 2 evident. Not only in educational institutions, but also at the workplace, learning is ever more a necessity to keep up with the new technological changes and socio-economic demands. Within this context, it becomes ever clearer the need to form creative and sensitive professionals, who are able to effectively respond to the context of a problematic situation. Indeed, inventive thinking, digital literacy, effective communication, and high productivity are the four 21 Century skills 3 deemed essential for the personal and professional development of people from almost every walk of life.

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