Human behaviors in computer-based education systems

摘要

One of the most outstanding challenges of the 21st century societies is to evolve from an information society to an effective knowledge society. This will unavoidably imply a technological bet for supporting interdisciplinary and multicultural approaches for troubleshooting, as well as the development of new interaction environments for learning, creating and sharing knowledge. Consequently, there is a need to transit to an open society, perceived as a space where both knowledge and technology could interoperate transparently. In this way tools, processes and resources could be reachable for both citizens and entities to a more reasonable cost and usefulness, in a context where the demand of new services and knowledge is continuously being increased. Concepts like Open Innovation, Open Science, Open Contents, Open Software and Open Education (Garcia-Penalvo, Garcia de Figuerola,& Merlo, 2010), among others, are nowadays present in the fields of Education and Learning, Information and Communication, Technology, Health, Economics, etc.