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Knowledge Society and Knowledge Society and LawLaw

CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHEIstituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell’Informazione Giuridica

Maria Angela Biasiotti

Florence 10 February 2006Florence 10 February 2006

Maria Angela Biasiotti, Ittig-CNR

Florence 10 February 2006 2

Information SocietyInformation Society

In 2010 Europe should become “the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-

based economy in the world, capable of achieving a sustainable economic growth,

with more qualified and developed employment and a greater social cohesion”

European Council, Lisbon, March 2000



i2010 - A European Information Society for

Growth and EmploymentPriorities

• A single European Information Space• Innovation and Investment in research• Inclusion, better public services and quality

of life• 2006 Commission will review the

contribution of ICT and digital literacy to key competences targets in Education and Training 2010 initiative

Communication from the Commission

COM (2005) 229 final (June 2005)



Education & Training Education & Training 20102010

Human resources are the European UNION’S MAIN ASSET. They are central to the creation and trasmission of knowledge and a determining factor in each society’s potential for innovation.

Lisbon Strategy needs to go ahead



Education & Training Education & Training 2010 Levers of 2010 Levers of

SuccessSuccess• Focus reform and investment on the key

areas for the knowledge-based society (in higher education, adult education and continuing vocational training )

• Make lifelong learning a concrete reality

• Establish a Europe of Education and Training

(recognition of diplomas and certificates everywhere in Europe essential for developing Europen labour market and European citizenship)



How to be reached?Information Society

European political strategies are to be focused on people as the key and major

resource

Knowledge Society The training and teaching process is

the essential step

toole-Education



e-Education

Represents the linking bridge between

old-fashioned society

new knowledge society



to make educational activities more efficient and effective applying ICTs

to generate new knowledge to promote social change and

innovation

e-Education



two facets

e-Education

methodological conceptual

1 2



Methodologically

the application and use of ICTsin the various sectors of the educational system

(school, university, post-graduate courses,public servants training and updating

and general life-long learning)



Conceptually

the introduction of those new keyconcepts necessary to make citizens skilled

in utilising new resources and capable of active participation to realise new prospects introduced by the Information Society



e-Learning

using new multimediatechnologies and the Internetto improve the quality of learning

Methodologically

means

is the most suitable tool for promoting e-Education



e-Learning featurese-Learning features

is based on a reliable pedagogy-oriented technology

is a social process facilitating interaction and collaboration between people

implies organisational change promotes teacher/tutor/student training

communities and peer-to-peer relations



to help the individual to realise his or her full potential and lead a happy and fruitful life

to reduce the disparities and inequalities between individuals or groups (the so called digital divide)

to ensure that skills available meet the needs introduced by knowledge society scenarios (the so-called lifelong learning)

e-Learning main e-Learning main goalsgoals



e-Education

Digital literacy general concepts and notions directed to all citizens for making them e-citizens (change promoters and producers)

e-…Law new concepts and procedures deriving

from the development of Information Society applied to specific legal domains (e-Government, e-Democracy etc.)

updating of traditional legal domains and disciplines

Conceptually



The modern teaching of administrative law

must

take into account procedural changes

introduced

by the implementation of e-Government

e-Education

Conceptually

e-Procurement Law?

Example:



Legal education in Italy

Law faculties are introducing new

technologies in the organisation but still very

little in education (conceptually and

methodologically)

Blended learning (integration between

traditional and online learning) is still the

preminent teaching model



Academic curricula have been slightly adjusted to most recent conceptual framework of knowledge society

Many masters and post-graduate courses are being held on e-Government and Knowledge Society issues




Training initiatives are addressed to the personnel of national Public Administrations and of regional and local governments for accelerating innovation

Educational centres were created in each Italian regions for lifelong learning in e-government and information society (CRCs)

e-Learning is employed in a low percentage of cases




Numerous teaching activities in legal informatics and computer law university curricular courses (Perugia,

Milan, Florence, Pisa, Livorno, Catania) post graduate courses and masters

(Catania, Camerino) doctorates (Florence, Genoa)

Refresher courses for training public servants to the new E-government and e-Participation requirements off-line and on-line)

Ittig activities



Publication of teaching handbooks

Research activities on Information Technologies applied to Law Teaching aiming at increasing the awareness of the legal world towards the introduction of ICTs

Design of e-Learning modules in specific legal domains

Ittig activities



a Hypermedia tool for teaching law

A first application

CD-Rom on European Law, inserted as a

teaching tool in a new University textbook

Didalex



An authoring system for supporting the autonomous

building of specific web-based legal tutorials

a Hypermedia tool for teaching law

Didalex



authoring structure

Didalex



e-EducationProspects

new knowledge society



e-Education

LEFIS activities

knowledge society

Prospects



Through LEFIS experience

to activate co-operative work and research

to reduce differences among European member States

to harmonise their social environmental prospects towards knowledge society

ProspectProspectss

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