Scientific academic research in higher education institutions: from fiction to the reality of the digital world

Abstract

The article presents some reflections about academic research procedures, taking into account the fact that the practices used in higher education institutions do not meet the demands of education and post-modernity. The proposal of the authors is the substitution of traditional practices for more efficient strategies of learning which favours dialogue, cooperation and interactivity among players of the educational process, starting from elementary education. The premise is that educational actors of this process should have the commitment to provide students the use of research tools and a complete access to the digital world. This education approach will be able to develop students’ potentialities and improve the conditions for them to be the craftsman of their own knowledge.