Education in Information Age

Education has undergone drastic changes in the present age. The striking development of secondary and higher education over the last few decades has been accompanied by a strong trend toward vocationalism. Education increasingly takes on the character of ‘training’; specialisation takes place earlier, is more thorough-going, and is increasingly of a kind directly related to the requirements of modern trades and professions. The almost total subordination of the education system to economic utility is becoming a necessary condition for economic prosperity in the twenty first century. Here in this book the real picture of education in information age is presented pros and cons. Diverse aspects like—transformation in education system; current issues; integrating technology in teaching; computer-mediated communication; implementation of ISDN etc. are thoroughly analysed.