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85: Wenner-Gren International Series: From Information to Knowledge; from Knowledge to Wisdom

Wenner-Gren

Edited by Erik De Corte (University of Leuven, Belgium) and Jens Erik Fenstad (University of Oslo, Norway)

This book is available online at http://wg85.portlandpress.com.

The second decade of the 21st Century will see higher education in Europe having to confront important changes. The Bologna Process initiated in 1999 has reshaped the European Higher Education Area and will continue to do so. An important accomplishment is that it leads to greater compatibility of systems of higher education in Europe, and as such, facilitates the mobility and exchange of students, teachers and scholars. But a major aim put forward for European higher education in the decade up to 2020 is to contribute substantially to the realization of a Europe of knowledge that is highly creative and innovative. Achieving this ambitious goal presents higher education with tremendous challenges. One of those challenges that universities have to deal with, and that calls for reflection on and reconsideration of the traditional model of higher education, derives from the accelerated technological developments, especially ICT, and the related exponential growth of research-based information and knowledge in all disciplines.

This volume pays particular attention to this challenge. It considers how can/should higher education deal with the impact of the massive increase in easily retrievable information, and with the ways of using and the possibilities for manipulating information? How does information relate to knowledge, and how can both, information and knowledge, facilitate the development of wisdom?

The book is based on the presentations and discussions at an Academia Europaea/ Wenner-Gren Conference held in Stockholm in November 2009, and contains contributions from t

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