Tom Vander Ark: Anytime Anywhere Learning

Sometime in the last few years we passed a milestone in human development: anyone can learn almost anything anywhere. All you need is broadband and a browser. The explosion of informal learning resources has surrounded the calcified formal system and changed the opportunity set for another billion people. Personal digital learning is an inevitable component of human development–both formal and informal–from here on out.
The bottom line: The genie is out of the bottle. When our children, students and employees have so many learning opportunities outside the ones that we have provisioned for them, it requires us to rethink everything.
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