Digital Delights

This is the second in a series of posts about the pillars of the revolution in education.

The most critical pillar of our educational system is obviously learning. Education without learning is like a car without wheels: it’s not going to get you very far. So let’s pull apart this first pillar of education and see where new technologies and online opportunities are having an impact.

For this discussion, I’ll define learning as the process of knowledge acquisition for an individual, through whatever means available and independent of the benefits it provides (either to the individual, employers or society). In this definition, knowledge encompasses both abstract (a priori) knowledge and knowledge gained through experience or application; this applies to an individual in isolation or to knowledge that pertains to groups. The facets of learning can then be broken down using process as a lens: