**Kurebwa Mercy**

Zimbabwe Open University, Zimbabwe Section 1

Globalization: An Historical and Modern Perspective

**IV**

future.

them. This text is intended to share the ideas, perceptions, insights, and inquiries of those who struggle to understand the past and the present in order to envision the

**Sharon Waller**

**Lee Waller**

**Vongai Mpofu**

Bindura, Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe Open University,

**Kurebwa Mercy**

Zimbabwe

Assistant Professor of Education,

American University of Ras Al Khaimah, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates

American University of Ras Al Khaimah, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates

Bindura University of Science Education,

Technology was once utilized as a euphemism to refer to the computer. Now technology embraces a much broader digital aspect. Just as Liber Abaci, an early thirteenth-century text, expounded the genius of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system to liberate mankind from the constraints of the mechanical abacus, the process of learning continues to embrace digital resources that threaten to transcend the computer itself. Digital has become so much more than simply utilizing a computer to enhance instruction. Digital learning now encompasses the broad spectrum of effectively utilizing any form of digital technology to enhance learning. Liber Abaci (freedom from the abacus) has become Liber Computatrum (freedom from the programmable machine). Digital learning welds together a plethora of learning tools, devices, pedagogies, and andragogy to lay the future at the feet of humanity. This text is dedicated to educators in the past and the present who lent their passion and genius to make this revolution possible. This text is also dedicated to those educators yet to come who will stand upon the shoulders of

others to empower possibility and guide the future.
