引言翻开历史的篇章,人类正以惊人的速度走出工业文明,步入信息时代。信息时代的来临不仅改变着人们的生产方式和千百年来赖以生存的生活方式,而且也改变着人们的思维方式和学习方式,这是历史的机遇和时代的挑战。回溯人类社会发展的历史,人类社会经历了农业社会、工业社会、知识经济社会。在19世纪以前,绝大多数人生活在刀耕火种的环境下,是在一家一户的自给自足的自然经济中。19世纪以后,随着技术的进步与发展,在一百多年的时间里,人 Introduction Opens the chapter of history, mankind is out of industrial civilization at an alarming rate, into the information age. The advent of the information age has not only changed people’s mode of production and the way of life they have lived for thousands of years, but also changed people’s way of thinking and learning. This is a historic opportunity and an era challenge. Recalling the history of the development of human society, human society has experienced agricultural society, industrial society, knowledge-based economy and society. Before the 19th century, the overwhelming majority of people lived in the environment of slash-and-burn farming and were in a family-run, self-sufficient natural economy. After the 19th century, with the progress and development of technology, in a hundred years time, people