Làm thế nào để chúng ta nắm được bản chất của sức mạnh chuyển đổi kiến thức điện tử? Các công nghệ kỹ thuật số đặt ra một thách thức miền núi cho tất cả chúng ta cố gắng để explo lại tương lai có thể họ cung cấp. Họ kết hợp một môi trường mới với một thức ăn ngon đã ry hệ thống mới, và mỗi nhân ảnh hưởng của các khác. | Transforming e-Knowledge A Revotd Fon Fn he Shđtĩny of Knowledge Donald Norris Jon Mason Paid Lefrere Society for College and University Planning Ann Arbor Michigan 48104 The mission of the Society for College and University Planning is to promote the practice of comprehensive planning in higher education by developing and disseminating planning knowledge. 2003 by Society for College and University Planning All Rights Reserved. Published 2003 Printed in the United States of America ISBN 0-9700413-2-2 Transforming e-Knowledge Foreword How do we capture the essence of the transformational power of e-knowledge The digital technologies pose a mountainous challenge to all of us trying to explore the possible futures they offer. They combine a new medium with a new delivery system and each multiplies the effect of the other. The adaptive computer is as revolutionary a way of supporting the way we think and learn as was the invention of writing. The Interne t is as pervasive in its communicative impact as was the invention of the printing press. In harnessing the two together we find ourselves grappling with the equivalent of the invention of writing and the invention of the printing press at the same time. This extraordinary historical convergence must give us pause. And yet the pace of invention never pauses never gives us the time we need to reflect. We cannot predict the future but we do sense that we have the power to shape it. So we need to take time to reflect on what those possible futures are which are the more desirable and what it takes to realise them. The authors of this book set out to help us with that process. On every page you will find them striving to express the ways in which e-systems can be exploited the benefits they could yield and what we all individuals and organisations together must now do. Underlying many of the contributions in this book is a debate about epistemol-ogy when the knowledge technologies change so radically they .