We live in a hypertext world. This shift has forever changed our assumptions about the shape of knowledge and our access to it.
When I share back-in-the-day stories with my kids about rifling through card catalogs and researching articles in periodical indexes, they giggle. How silly and inefficient!
Knowledge is no longer confined to paper. Ideas are now accessible anywhere, anytime. And the shape of information is what the learner makes it.
Our learners are accustomed to discovery learning, solving their immediate problems by accessing an on-demand global network. Modern learners are content creators and curators. They are collaborative. They are digitally sophisticated, spending a large portion of their day in mediated environments. Above all, they expect personalization and choice.
Tags: audience • content priorities • digital learning • Discovery • education strategy • Incremental Innovation • learning • learning pathways • on demand • personalization • Portfolio Management • purposing • UX