The University in the context of the network society: towards a pluralistic and decentralized educational project

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Published: Jun 29, 2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17163/soph.n18.2015.07
Keywords:
Network society, digital technologies, management model, University, cyberculture and decentralized.

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Andrés Hermann Acosta

Abstract

This paper attempts to uncover what is the dynamic that the University should develop in today’s society network, so that an epistemological reflection on what it means building educational activities in the current historical moment is performed; in a second step a model of academic management for the University in the digital age is proposed as part of early academic project to establish an open, decentralized, innovative, pluralistic, global and distributed-curricular goal.

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No. 18: (January-June 2015): Philosophy of Education in Plural: Interculturality
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Monographic articles

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Andrés Hermann Acosta

Licenciado en Comunicación Social, UPSQ-Ecuador. Especialista: Postgrado en Entornos Virtuales de Aprendizaje, CAEU-Virtualeduca, Argentina. Máster en Educación, Mención en Gestión Educativa, UPSQ, Ecuador. Máster en Comunicación y Educación en la Sociedad Red, UNED, Madrid-España. Catedrático en el área de Nuevas Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación en varias universidades de su país y el extranjero.