The world is growing fast and the need for information, knowledge that you need to know, is increasing exponentially. Where can you get this information? Where or how can you be educated continually, on a higher level.
We are quickly outstripping the knowledge we have learnt or the experience we have gained through traditional education. In this new, dynamic world there needs to be new, dynamic education. This no longer stops at university at the age of 25. Soon there will be not enough universities to cope with the demand for learning without a finish line.
With the world becoming more dynamic there is a growing demand for education. The world is changing at such a rate there are very few people who will stay in one profession all through their careers. With this quest for knowledge there is a lot that we can’t be thought now as we don’t know what we will need later on in life as our careers change.
This is going to lead to an increase in higher education for an older generation. This is currently not being addressed in today’s education sphere. There will not be resources available to build new campuses as the demand will far outstrip the supply.
Thankfully this is where tools such as the internet and collaborative learning can come into play. The Open educational resource movement (OER) which started in 2001 with MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative is a prime example of this. Today it provides open access to both undergraduate and graduate-level information and modules covering virtually all of MIT’s curriculum.
Now with the advent of Web 2.0 there is potential for not only sharing and linking of information, but there is sharing and linking of people. There is scope for distribution of information in a way never dreamt of before.
The focus is now no longer on what we are learning but how we are learning it and whom we are learning it with.
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