Towards Third Generation Learning and Teaching: Contours of the New Learning

Descartes has said he is because he thinks. Perhaps we should say: we are because we learn. Learning is an essential human characteristic, look at children who self-learn empirically. In our times we are privileged to have special learning institutions while learning has become a hallmark of civilization. Teachers are among the key contributors to our society, but will they work the same as in the last millennia? Right now, just about everything in learning and teaching is changing. Traditional methods are replaced by newer ones and there is a host of new learning “technologies.” It is of foremost importance that societies adapt to this and that is why this book has been created. Thoughts and experiences of the brightest minds of today offer an overview of what is going on and where we are heading. 

Written in an accessible, yet academically rigorous way, this volume explores the past dynamics and future avenues of learning and teaching. Its contributors are among the brightest minds of today with knowledge, experience and vision to shed a light of learning and teaching’s past and future. 

Murat Yülek is the Rector of Ostim Technical University. A former IMF economist, he is a well-published expert on economic development. He has development policy experience in more than 15 countries and is the author of How Nations Succeed: Manufacturing, Trade, Industrial Policy and Economic Development.

J.G. (Hans) Wissema is professor emeritus at TU Delft in the Netherlands and professor of economics at Ostim Technical University. His book Towards the Third Generation University was published in English and six other languages.