Edunetmatics - education assisted by a world telematic net

Abstract

Traditional education is developed by building up connections between specific ideas and related skills through repeated practice and positive reinforcement. All that has no sense in virtual learning environments because the new information and communication technologies. NICT, have induced a new space concept in society and a new dimension space for the culture. Thus the traditional learning environment must be changed and its meaning translated to a virtual learning environment. This new learning space must be constructed over an innovative educational paradigm, which is determined by a new concept, named edunetmatics (education assisted by telematic net). The edunetmatic process has a dynamics inspired on an uncertainty principle. The outcome is a learning cybernetic cave. Some evaluation has been done over the Chilean national educational net, Enlaces. A Virtualisation of Experiments on Science and Technology Project is being developed and implemented on the national educational net, according to the Chilean Educational Reform. © 2001 by Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.