The Journal of Distance Education Education and Learning in the Knowledge Society (RED) has just published a special issue about "The teaching profession in the Knowledge Society" (number 56, January, 2018)
It was coordinated by the professors Juan Manuel Escudero and MarÃa Teresa Caro Valverde and it is a tour around the multiple demands claimed to teachers in this historical context. Among them, the digital dimension of knowledge that have an important role in the teaching and learning processes.
All authors are professionals with extensive experience in the field and conduct research reviews or report significant experiences to answer questions such as teaching digital competence; the changes from the paper textbook to electronic to digital contents; teaching in the framework of the excess of information that surrounds us, from the face to the digital teaching, etc.
Lourdes Montero and Adriana Gewerc (members of the Stellae group) participate in this special issue through the article:
The teaching profession in the knowledge society. A look through the research review of the last 10 years
The article has the basic purpose of approaching the challenges posed to the teaching profession to deal the new social, economic, cultural and technological conditions of the 21st century. They do this by reviewing a set of publications derived from research carried out by the authors during the last ten years within the Stellae Research Group.
