Memetic Engineering for Permanent Education in Line with Sustainable Growth

Abstract

Abstract:Given the recent point of view of the European Commission regarding the implementation of a new strategy for sustainable growth and jobs, this paper emphasises the opportunity and urgency of supporting the EU 2020 strategy, providing an appropriate educational tool for the knowledge society. The main objectives are: a. adapting memetic engineering expressed in terms of General System Theory to the teaching component of permanent education based on bounded rationality and "Just in Time" as key tools for fighting cognitive chaoplexity in the post-industrial era; b. facilitating the use of memetic engineering based on its double-faceted nature: as both positive and negative feedback; c. extending the applicability of memetic engineering to ecology as source of memes; d. exemplifying the above in primitive metamodels applying memetic engineering in ecology and highlighting the relevant design-space dimensions. Among the conclusions: a. to be sustainable in the long run permanent education must be modelled in line with learner bounded rationality, since bounded rationality is a psychological lasting feature; b. sustainable development depends on affordable permanent education; c. as a result, e-teaching should be systematically revisited through intense transdisciplinary research.

The role of E-Learning generated by the COVID-19 epidemic in higher education

“…Many institutions used the possibilities of information and communication technologies. In this way, efforts were made to face up to the changing teaching framework conditions and the changed demands of various stakeholders inside and outside the universities [4], [5], [6], [9]. According to Ehlers (2018) [10], a key factor of the future university are greater participation in education, increased diversity in life situations, digitalization, and student needs.…”

“…This phenomenon has particularly affected training approaches and their transfer. Therefore, this article highlights the impact of digitalization on institutional management and performance, respectively, investigating factors that influence the digital transformation during the Covid-19 pandemic, which led to the transition to e-learning [6], [7], [12], [18], [27]. The novelty and the main contribution are the examination of the situation for Romanian universities because we identify this goal in the existing literature and we consider it to be very important to analyze the acceptance of new theology because it can be decisive for the future.…”