Education as we know it is passe.
“Massive Open Online Courses might seem like best way to use the Internet to open up education, but you’re thinking too small. Technology can turn our entire lives into learning experiences.”
“Today’s obsession with MOOCs is a reminder of the old forecasting paradigm: In the early stages of technology introduction we try to fit new technologies into existing social structures in ways that have become familiar to us.”
“Replacing that model is a new system in which learning is best conceived of as a flow, where learning resources are not scarce but widely available, opportunities for learning are abundant, and learners increasingly have the ability to autonomously dip into and out of continuous learning flows.”
Read the FAST Company article here
The idea that learning will be have its component parts disassembled, and then reassembled in dynamic on the fly methodologies, that aren’t restricted to present forms and packages…is a big part of the usefulness of talking about Defined Learning Experiences.
If we are stuck with terms like “class”, “course” and “training” etc, and learning packages are being redone from the “ground up” ….what will “course” mean going forward? For example, what will be the relevance of the “semester” with “x” number of classes “x” times a week until the “class” is done? When “students” can proceed at their own pace, and start in the middle if they want?
As with many transformations or disruptions brought forth by new media and means, the old methodology will be partly incorporated, partly overwritten, and partly still stand on it’s own for much narrower but still useful purposes. Radio >> TV for example.
I’m wondering what may be lost when we can “google” to get all our answers. While sitting around after a Spring Training game, our group spent at least ten minutes trying to figure out what “47” meant on the side of one of our baseball caps. We came up with all sorts of possible explanations. Finally, someone suggested googling “47”. It is a brand name…end of discussion. Oh well, maybe we could fill our discussion time figuring out more pressing problems.
That’s a funny one Kris. Quality anecdote that could go in one of our Prezis somewhere…..But has serious parts also.
Everything is connected…you just had a mostly undefined learning experience…but a social learning construct was implied…
Don’t recall if you’re a “Hitchikers Guide to the Universe” cult fan, but you probably have heard that 42 is the answer to the ultimate question of life the universe everything. Which I assume would “come up” if googled.