Personalizing Education in Post-Industrial Society

—The paper deals with significant technological changes in society when it moves into Post-Industrial age. Some of these changes have fundamental social consequences. The paper analyses the main social trends such as Virtualization of the society in their interaction with newest technology trends and their influence on education. The concept of Virtualization allows formulating the main feature of the Post-Industrial education, which is personalization. The phenomenon of personalization is supported by newly developed and introduced personal communication means forming totally person-dedicated, unique learning environment.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICDS
• Authors: Ilya Levin, Andrei Kojukhov
• Keywords: Digital Society, Fundamental Social Consequences, ICDS 2009, Main Social Trends, Significant Technological Changes