Higher Education In The Era Of New Technology:Reflection,Critique And Construction

Human beings have been living in a era of new technology that is oriented by information technology.The Internet as the representative of the new technology has penetrated into the higher education system.The liberation of human being is still the basic purpose of practical activities,including new technology and higher education.The real problem is: can the higher education in the new technological era promote human liberation? How to use new technology to promote human liberation? This study tries to answer the question in theory: how to use the methodology of philosophy to understand and examine the higher education in the new technology era? Located in the fundamental research and normative research,and based on the basic methods of reflection,criticism and construction,this study is devoted to the research of the realistic characteristics,the liberation purport and the theoretical field of higher education in the new era of technology.This paper has carried on the following research.First,through reflection,this paper summarizes the realistic characteristics of higher education in the era of new technology: the technology oriented higher education.Higher education has entered a new era of technology.On the one hand,this thesis will elaborate higher education under the guidance of the new technology from the knowledge production,talent cultivation,students’ learning and teachers’ teaching,teachers’ occupation development,the idea of higher education,governance of higher education,Opportunities and challenges faced by Universities,etc;on the other hand,it reveals the essential characteristics of contemporary higher education:technology-dimensional,from catering technology,developing technology,worshiping technology,etc.Second,through criticizing,to explore the liberation purport of higher education in the era of new technology.Technology is not only a tool,but also a humanistic;technology is not only a life scene,but also a culture.Alienation of technology has become a reality,but also has the possibility of transformation to the liberation.Similarly,alienation and liberation constitute the inherent tension of higher education.Liberation purport is the resonance frequency of the new technology andhigher education,and is also the intrinsic motivation.At last,Through construction,to develop the theory of higher education in the new era of technology.This paper presents a new technological humanism based on partly criticizing traditional technological humanism,and builds a triangle coordination model as "culture-technology-education",then proposes "technologies are for revealing humanity: the higher education developing to the era of new technology".The innovation of this research are: this paper reflect realistic characteristics of contemporary higher education from the perspective of the new era of technology,puts forward a new expression of "the technology oriented higher education";Based on the philosophy of technology,we criticize the alienation of technology and higher education and explore its liberation purport,then think that the higher education in the new era of technology can promote human liberation;this paper presents a new understanding of new technological humanism and a triangle coordination model as "culture-technologyeducation",and regards "technologies are for revealing humanity" as a guidance of the development of higher education in the new era of technology.