Future justification for the shift towards the knowledge based economy in Jordan from the educational experts’ viewpoint

Abstract

Knowledge was associated with human in his early beginning and was developed with him as his awareness was deepened till it reached its highest levels. Nonetheless, what is new nowadays is that it affects socioeconomic life as well as lifestyle in general, due to the technological and scientific evolution and the changes resulted in different life aspects. Whereas, the last twenty five years of the twentieth century faced one of the greatest changes in life; it was the third change after the emergence of agriculture and economy. This change is represented in an evolution in science and high- tech in the fields of electronics, nuclear power, physics, biology, and astronomy. Thus Telecommunication evolution had a pioneer cause of this change; where it enabled the human to seize power of nature to the level that knowledge development factor has the greatest effect on life compared to other factors: natural and physical. Information has become a major and significant economic source; it is also the new strategic source in economic life which supplements natural resources. Information technology, currently, forms the basic element in economic growth. With this huge development of information systems, It became one of the most important aspects of the growth of global economy (Diab, 2004).