The information society (Bell, 1976), also called the knowledge society or technotronic society (Brzezinski, 1973), is characterized by being a space in which the acquisition, processing, organization, storage, retrieval, use, monitoring, distribution and sale of information, are priority activities for the economy of the countries that promote them, due to their high rate of generation of added value.
It is to be expected that in the face of a new type of society with increasingly different and greater challenges, the citizen must educate himself in order to be prepared for those constant changes that constant updating entails.
Therefore, teachers, who are the professionals in charge of contributing to this training, must prepare for such work, according to the demands of the environment and the rhythm of social changes, an issue that includes the globalization of knowledge.
The advent of the information society was a consequence of scientific-technological development, especially in the areas of Computer Science, Microelectronics, Optoelectronics and telecommunications, an issue that made possible the appearance of advanced technologies called New Information Technologies (NTIC).
Education in general and higher education in particular, have presented changes regarding the use of new tools to induce meaningful learning. This has been thanks to new technological innovations, telematics and information technology, among others.
"We are currently witnessing a technological revolution in which there are rapid and abrupt changes in the way people live, work and have fun. As the pace of technological advance does not seem to be slowing down, the challenge is to learn to adapt to changes with minimal physical or mental effort.
To achieve this, learning systems and those who manage them must prepare people to work with new technologies safely and adequately, and overcome with solvency the constant changes in new ways of working, making learning a natural process. permanent".
Informatics and telematics have been conceived and developed as extensions of our intellectual faculties for the treatment of information, which has its most sublime expression in knowledge and its communication.
The individual can now share and exchange DICs (Data, Information, Knowledge) with the help of telecommunications. The term telematics appears from the union of (tele) communications and computer (mathematics) that was disseminated by Nora and Minc in 1977, mentioned by Silvio (1992).
Education has fulfilled since the beginning of time an admirable mission: to help in the intellectual and personal development of individuals, preparing them for the society in which they have lived. And teachers have been in charge of crystallizing this objective through the so-called formal education.