Being unreal: Epistemology,ontology, and phenomenology in a virtual educational world |
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| Authors: | Roy Lundin |
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| Institution: | Senior Lecturer in the School of Professional Studies in the Faculty of Education , Queensland University of Technology , Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, Locked Bag No. 2, Red Hill, Queensland, 4059, Australia E-mail: r.lundin@qut.edu.au |
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| Abstract: | Abstract This paper addresses new flexibility in educational programs and delivery in terms of the possibilities now available for extending the body and the mind through electronic communications. Issues are raised regarding what is true and the nature of reality in the virtual world of the Internet. Finally, the article discusses the ability of people to cope with these issues in terms of the education required, the development of ‘information literacy’, and the implications for personal responses to them. These ideas are developed within the context of the “World Brain/World Mind” concept first set forth by H. G. Wells in 1938. |
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