For over a decade now, universities have been aware of the pressures to expand access to higher education.1 The knowledge society needs more graduates, and those graduates will keep returning to study as lifelong learning takes its place in both work and leisure time. These are the positive pressures for expansion. But the knowledge society, fueled by the expanding higher education sector, is i...

Terminology development in education, science and technology is a key to formulating a knowledge society. The authors are developing a multilingual engineering terminology dictionary consisting of more than ten thousand engineering terms each for ten Asian languages and English. The dictionary is primarily designed to support foreign students who are studying engineering subjects at Japanese hi...

Literacy is documented as a fundamental human right. The ability to exercise this right improves an individual’s life chances by achieving their personal, social, occupational and educational goals, and it opens opportunities for social, economic and political integration. Currently in an information and knowledge society, there is a salient need for Information Literacy (IL). IL can be defined...

This paper raises questions about assessment and the knowledge or learning society. It focuses on the emergent field of alternative assessment and its links with practices usually described, by default, as traditional assessment. 1 This is a revised version of a paper discussed at the EDEN 2004 Annual Conference, New challenges and Partnerships in an enlarged European Union: Open, Distance and ...

Innovation has become one of the most important issues in modern knowledge society. As opposed to radical innovation this paper introduces the concept of Emergent Innovation: this approach tries to balance and integrate the demand both for radically new knowledge and at the same time for an organic development from within the organization. From a more general perspective one can boil down this ...

This article builds on the assumption that learning to live in the knowledge society requires creativity; it points out how the school subject of computer science (CS) can contribute to that issue and presents results of a study concerning how students think about CS and creativity after experiencing creative programming. A strong connection between creativity and CS was described by the studen...

The last chapter in this Report outlines a strategic vision built on five pillars of the future Arab knowledge society. Its chief goal is to frame a forward-looking and action-oriented discussion on knowledge in Arab countries that takes into account their particular features and circumstances and that leads to specific operational proposals for the advancement of Arab human development.

The technological pace and the advent of the knowledge society will set in the next years the new context for e-learning evolution: The convergence of learning and daily life of citizens worldwide will be evident in new services and transparent technologies. Pervasive or ubiquitous learning will be a critical cornerstone and an ultimate achievement of the e-learning research community. Addition...

The knowledge society It is obvious that knowledge management is a huge problem for the construction industry. A report released a few days ago points to the fact that especially small companies in the construction sector are not exploiting the knowledge and innovations created in technical research institutions. Small companies are lacking behind in the development – and are hampering the deve...

A Knowledge Society is developing in which Information and Communication Technology is both a catalyst and a necessity. Knowledge is an invaluable asset in this ICT-integrated society, both tacit knowledge in the heads and hands of the workers and explicit knowledge. Human capital is becoming more and more important. Innovation is driving force in knowledge intensive economies. Therefore applic...