Abstract

GONZALEZ RODRIGUEZ, Guillermo Isaac. Reality as a myth: the context of universities and the postmodern complexity. Diálogos sobre educ. Temas actuales en investig. educ. [online]. 2021, vol.12, n.22, 00013.  Epub Dec 06, 2021. ISSN 2007-2171.  https://doi.org/10.32870/dse.v0i22.910.

Faced with the problems derived from the COVID-19 pandemic, society, the State, companies, and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have had to rethink the way they deal with changing environmental situations. The meaning of a classical or traditional education has been overtaken by the need for a virtual, synchronous, asynchronous and remote education where the use of Communication and Information Technologies (ICT) serves as a bridge for the development of an education attuned to the needs of our times. Educational systems have run into a series of external elements that affect their substantive internal functions, leading them to rethink their functional schemes. Thus, the question arises as to which are the elements that a change towards a virtual and digital education entails, and to what extent this is the future of Higher Education. Insofar as the future has reached the present, or vice versa, the times we live in have raised several questions in the air as well as the need to reflect on them. This essay is an approach to the phenomenon of the needs of a future higher education from the perspective of institutional change and the generation of utopias and dystopias as myths that provide certainty to HEIs in the face of the challenges they must confront. We reflect on the possibilities available to us and the task of deploying the actors and the policies required to observe the shortcomings and vicissitudes of an education in postmodern times.

Keywords : myths; Institutional change; digital illiteracy; utopias.

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