1. Need for Innovation in Education
2. Mutual dependence of Education and Technological progress
3. Models of delivering knowledge.
Education plays an important role in the development of mankind and society and its impact penetrates through the whole course of human history and every field of social life, enabling the development of human society. Under the push of societal demands education is constantly changing its own patterns and mode of delivery. Each innovation in education has impact on the development of human society and thereby the educational enterprise acquires new vitality. Constant innovation in education constitutes the source of life of educational development.
In the age of agricultural economy education transmitted the skills of productive labor and the experiences of social life through the medium of personal example and verbal instruction. In earlier times education found its expression in fragmentary
activities serving the needs of a minority of people, and in later times it evolved into private schools, official schools and religious schools engaged in the transmission of culture. Modern education systems were established with the emergence of industrial civilization, and organized school education was made possible and became the important pillar of industrial production.
With the emergence and development of information society and the changes in economic structure and employment structure brought about by advances in science and technology, the role of intellectual and cognitive abilities has become all the more prominent. It is no longer possible to require the education system to train people engaged in relatively stable occupations, and it becomes necessary to train people who can constantly innovate and adapt to a rapidly changing world.
In the latter half of the 20th century human society entered an era of “knowledge explosion” characterized by the rapid advances in science and technology. The sum of knowledge discovered and created in the 20th century exceeds the sum of knowledge created in the past millenniums, and new knowledge is constantly emerging. Society as a whole and its individual members can only make further advances on the basis of uninterrupted learning and creation. It is obviously impossible for the traditional university education centered around simple transmission of ready–made knowledge to cover all knowledge created by mankind. The more important task of university education is to teach students to learn how to learn and acquire the ability of innovation, keeping in mind the needs of lifelong learning and striving to make a solid foundation and provide the necessary conditions for future learning.
In conclusion we may say that traditional mode and system of education can hardly adapt to the new changes. Innovation in education has become extremely urgent.