Digital Society - Opportunity or Threat? Case Studies of Japan and the Czech Republic

Záklasník, Martin; Putnová, Anna

doi:10.11118/actaun201967041085

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“…the struggle for permanent connectivity, for being present in the world, for apprehending what happens in reality and building reality becoming the vehicle that stores key information for social life, builds environments and, links objects and people". Some authors even make reference to a digital society, notably in "Society 5.0"-a super-smart society-and sustain that "Society 5.0 is the consequence of a technological revolution that will eventually affect not just the production but all parts of today's life as well" [37] (p. 1085). Table 5 exhibits these forms of digitalization and their main features.…”

Section: Digital Sustainable Development In Higher Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The COVID-19 Pandemic as an Opportunity to Foster the Sustainable Development of Teaching in Higher Education

Sá¹,

Serpa

2020

Sustainability

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had profound consequences on the social, economic and cultural life at the global level. The educational dimension has also been affected in the schools’ regular functioning, with the temporary closure of educational institutions, as well as the impediment of face-to-face classes. This perspective paper aims to add to the knowledge already produced on this topic, by arguing that these challenging conditions can be a pivotal moment of opportunity for reshaping higher education, with the implementation, development and diffusion, among academics and students, of digital technologies. The paper also discusses the role of leadership in the transformation of organizational culture in higher education. The methodology used to carry out this study is qualitative, and the technique employed to analyze the data collected was content analysis. Research studies, in diverse formats, already published on the COVID-19 topic and its impacts were the elected data sources. The results of this document analysis allow us to conclude that there is the need to improve the digital sustainable development in teaching in higher education, which entails profound challenges that higher education institutions need to face and overcome if they want to be at the forefront of success in the international education market. This is where the authors seek to contribute, by offering insights on the challenges—but also the opportunities—that COVID-19 poses to higher education at a time when it needs to redefine its teaching methods, leadership models, and interaction channels, by going digital towards the improvement of the sustainable development of its teaching.

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Section: Digital Sustainable Development In Higher Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The COVID-19 Pandemic as an Opportunity to Foster the Sustainable Development of Teaching in Higher Education

Sá¹,

Serpa

2020

Sustainability

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“…Since then, many countries have oriented their investment and research strategies towards a similar model [19][20][21], in which sustainable development is idealized from its initial planning, considering the advances in infrastructure and technology, thus achieving an improvement in industrialization and the environment [14].…”

Section: Society 50: Perspectivesmentioning

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“…This new model of society is established in IT infrastructures [24], which include networks, cloud computing, data centers and big data incorporated into the renewed municipal infrastructures with intelligent processes of energy, water, and transport networks [21,25].…”

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confidence: 99%

Society 5.0: A Japanese Concept for a Superintelligent Society

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This document discusses the Japanese context of Society 5.0. Based on a society-centered approach, Society 5.0 seeks to take advantage of technological advances to finally solve the problems that currently threaten Japan, such as aging, birth rates and lack of competitiveness, among others. Additionally, another objective is to contribute to the progress of the country and develop the foundations for a better world, in which no individual can be excluded from the technological advances of our current society, to achieve this goal, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) have been developed. SDGs seek to assess the methods of use of modern technology and thus find the best strategies and tools to use it in a way that guarantees sustainability within the framework of a new society that demands constant renovations.

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“…Some authors even speak of a digital society, for example, "Society 5.0": a super-smart society. Society 5.0 emerges as a result of a technological revolution, which will have effects in all spheres of citizens' lives [41].…”

Section: Digital Competencesmentioning

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COVID-19 and the Promotion of Digital Competences in Education

Sá¹,

Serpa²

2020

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The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has profound consequences on social, economic and cultural life worldwide, and is affecting, throughout the world, the regular functioning of educational institutions at all levels, with their temporary shutdown and the impossibility of face-to-face classes. This study aims to add to the analysis of the implications of this context in the reformulation of education shaped by the digital. To fulfill this goal, the authors carried out a document collection, and also mobilized their experience in the research and teaching of this topic. It is concluded that these unforeseen circumstances may be a key moment of opportunity for reformulating teaching, with the implementation, development and dissemination among teachers and students of digital technologies in shaping a society that is, itself, increasingly digital, notably Society 5.0. To this end, and as main implications, the agents of the educational process, teachers and students, due to their traits and various reasons, will have to prepare for student-centered learning through the intentional and sensible mobilization of digital technologies in a complex process, in which each agent will be, ultimately, a critical content creator with enhanced digital literacy. In the contemporary digital society, the school needs to reinvent itself, which is even more pressing with the Covid-19 pandemic. Aspects such as training, internet access infrastructure, hardware and software, digital literacy, and students and academics' teaching and learning strategies are essential. The school offers, thus, a critical contribution to social cohesion and social equity through digital inclusion in education for sustainable development.

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Digital Society - Opportunity or Threat? Case Studies of Japan and the Czech Republic

Cited by 16 publications

References 4 publications

The COVID-19 Pandemic as an Opportunity to Foster the Sustainable Development of Teaching in Higher Education

The COVID-19 Pandemic as an Opportunity to Foster the Sustainable Development of Teaching in Higher Education

Society 5.0: A Japanese Concept for a Superintelligent Society

COVID-19 and the Promotion of Digital Competences in Education

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