چکیده (انگلیسی):

Developments in communication and information technologies in the last decade have had a
significant impact on instructional and learning activities. For many students and educators, the
Internet became the significant medium for sharing instruction, learning and communication.
Access to knowledge beyond boundaries and cultures has an impact on methods of teaching and
learning, affecting professional education in corporations worldwide. Th e blending of science
with commercial applications, new methods of conducting business, and access to published and
preliminary research is not longer limited to leading educational institutions and the northern
hemisphere. This paper discusses educational opportunities, reviewing the latest trends in
information retrieval, along with new teaching methodologies related to availability and
globalization of information. The good news is that the multicultural melding of various
intelligences and the global linking of intelligent knowledge systems promises to lend a
multicultural wisdom to the selection and provision of information. We hope that this may
ultimately contribute to a lessening of the gap between educationally rich and poor nations. In this
paper the “digital divide” is seen to be a less vexing problem for the future of globalized
intelligent information systems. This system, called the “Global Brain,” ameliorates existing
differences in national access to educational content repositories used for teaching and learning