Sustainable Development: E-teaching (now) for Lifelong E-Learning

Lifelong Learning: The New Educational Paradigm for Sustainable Development

“…The concept could be put into practice through new policies and strategies implementing flexible frameworks, innovative pedagogical approaches, new forms of assessments and institutional collaboration (Chitiba, 2012b). Considering that in the Europe 2020 strategy three priorities are underlined: "Smart growth -developing an economy based on knowledge and innovation, Sustainable growth -promoting a more resource efficient, greener and more competitive economy and Inclusive growth -fostering a high employment economy delivering economic, social and territorial cohesion", it is concluded that sustainable development depends on affordable permanent education (Oprean et al, 2011f).…”

Memetic Engineering for Permanent Education in Line with Sustainable Growth

“…Hence, the research about the role of permanent education for sustainable growth as well as the role of memetic engineering in permanent education [19], [16], [20], [6] has been continued in line with the following objectives: a) adapting memetic engineering expressed in terms of General System Theory to the teaching component of permanent education based on Bounded Rationality and "Just-in-Time" as key tools for fighting cognitive chaoplexity in post-industrial era [16]; b) facilitating the use of memetic engineering based on his double faceted nature: as negative feedback (through memetic stability) and positive feedback (through intense spreading of memes); c) extending the applicability of memetic engineering from myths and metaphors, including (paleo)linguistics [16], to ecology as source of memes; d) exemplifying the above in primitive metamodels applying memetic engineering in ecology and highlighting the relevant design-space dimensions. Sustainable growth depends on permanent education; this involves memetic engineering and bounded rationality, and requires changes in the three referred fields: cognitive psychology, IT, and Higher Education.…”

“…In recent papers [19], [20] bounded rationality and "Just-in-Time" were used as tool for e-teaching; this paper aims at proving that memetic engineering for permanent education is a tool for eteaching environmental science. Ecologists use memetic stability because they want to preserve the environment.…”

“…To add a flavour to the syntagm "educational chaoplexity" (EDCHY): "In association with the respective technologies of the clock, engine and computer, the scientific theories of mechanism, thermodynamics, and cybernetics have all in turn been recruited to shape distinct approaches to the challenges of imposing order on the chaos of the battlefield. Today, it is on the basis of the new sciences of chaos and complexity that the latest regime of the scientific way of warfare is being erected" [4], [19]. In the abbreviation EDCHY, the focus is on the letters d and h because education has to take into account that we live in a dynamic and heterogonous environment.…”

“…Since education is seen as a complex service in a post-industrial era, this paper aims to extend to ecology the general educational tool for knowledge society as proposed in [20], [19], [16], [6].…”