TRAINING AND EDUCATION TODAY: ROLE AND PERSPECTIVES
Claudia Montedoro, Dunia Pepe, Francesca Serra

Technology’s development and globalization contribute by characterizing a society as a knowledge society. Learning is very important as economic and social complexity requires an acquisition of new information as well as an ability to produce and to develop new knowledge. Lifelong   learning becomes a right to an active citizenship and it is very important for individual and human resources development.
Knowledge becomes “meta-knowledge or meta-competency,” a flexible and strategic tool used by men and women in learning to learn in everyday life. The learning concept takes the shape of a “meta-competency,” the ability to adapt and orient in a dynamical professional system, and be able to be competitive in the labor market.
A further and essential phenomenon having an enormous impact on training concerns the progressive decline of traditional training, and the proliferation of new methods, already emerged in the last few years.  Among these methods are those linked to the challenges of the new technologies, the Internet and e-learning are the most remarkable.
The concepts of knowledge and skills vanish in the implications of e-learning dynamics; the whole training path is redefined as a complex path, both real and virtual, integrating different natural tools. In this context e-learning is an essential feature of work as well as of itself.