Abstract:

The bursting transition to a knowledge-based economy poses unexpected challenges to global education systems. On one hand, the uneven development of technology allows some or other world regions to gain a major technological advantage and occupy market niches in the field of online education and training, but on the other hand, the rapid multiplication of these same technologies creates new global competition, which undeniably escalates with the time. Education systems around the world are undergoing a qualitatively new kind of transformation, linked to the possibility of being both regionally challenged and globally accessible, and the tendencies of globalization come in direct clash with the cultural identity of nations and individuals in a purely digital dimension.

The article explores the opportunities for online education in literature and philosophy with the tools of the most advanced distance learning platforms, defending the thesis that online teaching of humanities acts as a natural "antioxidant" to the ever more technologically and unifying global educational ecosystem. We face one of the most serious challenges in today's world, namely replacing the centuries-old copy-paste models of the “traditional” education with an externally attractive but frightening unifying model of the modern digital culture that threatens to smash differences and to crush the diversity of philosophies, semantics, notion and worldview characteristic of different peoples and nations. The key role of online education in humanities, in particular literature and philosophy, for the promotion of the cultural identity, the specific way of thinking and the construction of kind of "digital bridges" between the different regions, ethnic groups and social communities has been explored.

Keywords:

Knwoledge-based economy, distance learning, digital world, global educational ecosystem.