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Editorial: Open education for sustainable development: Contributions from emerging technologies and educational innovation
(Frontiers, 2023-02-16) Ramírez Montoya, María Soledad; Rodríguez Abitia, Guillermo; Hernández Montoya, Diana; López Caudana, Edgar Omar; González González, Carina; Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
The difficulties in carrying out formal educational processes are not a novelty; historically, some examples, such as the cuneiform pictograms dating back to 3000 B.C., speak of the problems that the Sumerian people had in educating, disseminating the knowledge to reach future generations, and finding ways to translate the representations into productive processes. It has been 5000 years since those Mesopotamian schools tried to establish a systematization of knowledge through educational institutions. From this perspective, we must understand that educational institutions must constantly be moving, pending social dynamics, adapting, and in many cases, anticipating the transformations that human beings undergo in their daily lives. We must understand excellence as Galeano commented, “Utopia is on the horizon. I walk two steps, it moves two steps away, and the horizon moves ten more steps away. So, what is a utopia for? That’s what it’s for, to walk.