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'In the Knowledge Economy, We Need a Netflix of Education' (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: When we want to acquire useful knowledge, we have to search the web broadly, find experts by word-of-mouth and troll through various poorly designed internal document sharing systems. This method is inefficient. There should be a better solution that helps users find what they need. Such a solution would adapt to the user's needs and learn how to make ongoing customized recommendations and suggestions through a truly interactive and impactful learning experience. Before Netflix, Spotify, Reddit and similar curated content apps, you had to go to numerous sources to find the shows, music, news and other media you wished to view. Now, the entertainment and media you actually want to consume is easily discoverable and personalized to your interests. In many ways the entertainment model is a good framework for knowledge management and learning development applications. The solution for the learning and development industry would be a platform that can make education more accessible and relevant -- something that allows us to absorb and spread knowledge seamlessly. Just as Netflix delivers entertainment we want at our fingertips, the knowledge and learning we need should be delivered where and when we need it.
Videos are one way to learn. Then there are these things called books which I've heard can be quite educational and offerred in quickly downloadable formats.
And are also available for free in places called libraries!
This is what frustrated me so terribly about public schooling.
"Hurry up and wait for the slow kids."
Was worst in grade school, got only slightly better in high school, and college was simply more-of-same.
Even afterwards, classes for various forms of certification are just DREADFULLY slow.
As someone with ADD, being told to just stand there and hold my dick COMPLETELY destroys the learning experience, because it becomes so disjointed.
If I'd had something like Netflix to absorb information from, I might have done a lot better in school (blew out testing, but classwork destroyed my GPA).
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
LOL. We could have replaced teachers by automated machines years ago.
There's no substitute for a good teacher. Everyone learns differently, and everyone has different places where they can get stuck. There's no better way to get past a mental roadblock than just ASK in person.