E-learning, the 21 century skills and the future of smart learning : personalised learning

Abstract EN

This paper describes a current smart educational solution and how it can be used in educational processes, what the relationship between the smart learning, twentieth first century skills and e-learning.

The paper aims to highlight advantages for using a smart educational system as a support for the twentieth first century skills and e-learning in the knowledge management.

The paper emphasizes the relations between e- learning, smart education and twentieth first century skills and knowledge management.

The economic process end product of the smart education is the professional competence, a set of knowledge acquired by a person who uses them to take part in other economic processes.

The input in this economic process is represented by people who accumulate knowledge and skills through the educational system.

Living in a knowledge-based society driven by the wide-spread diffusion of ICT(Information, Communication, and Technology) does indeed give rise to the need for acquiring new digital competences and ICT skills.

The paper also looks at changing technology, especially the emergence of ubiquitous computing and the development of social software.

The researchers believe that we are coming to realize that we cannot simply reproduce previous forms of learning, the classroom or the university, embodied in software.

Instead, we have to look at the new opportunities for learning afforded by emerging technologies.