You know what guys it would be quite cliched for me to say this, but I cant help agree that these are definitely interesting times in the field of education, with technology occupying principal place in the way education is imparted to kids and adults alike.
While the biggies like Apple and Kindle and their equally big educational publishing counterparts- are making all the right moves in preparing content with design methodologies and delivering them using latest mobile and tablet technologies; they may not always end up having a winner on hand.
One of the reasons for this could be, that with the emergence of social networks and collaborative platforms the lines separating students, learners, subject matter experts are fast disappearing and slowly are grouped into what are called as peer learning groups. And content prepared by publishers would always be viewed as traditional and instructive in nature- prepared by some one else for someone else.
The question to be asked is how long then will such instructive environments survive, especially when the innate need to self assimilate information and convert that into learning is so much stronger.
The problem always has been that of relevance. What usually starts of as a search on Google ends up with cursory glances on Wikipedia. And this is because even though the content is great, only some of it maybe of relevance to us.
So how does one deal with a problem like that since collaborative information platforms like Wikipedia attract content from across the board.
Could the answer to all this be a Personal Wikipedia!!!. It could be a platform where the content search criteria could be based on a host of personalized filters- ranging from even age to the names of subject matter experts and these filters could act also inside the main title of a topic.
All thoughts welcome on this.
While the biggies like Apple and Kindle and their equally big educational publishing counterparts- are making all the right moves in preparing content with design methodologies and delivering them using latest mobile and tablet technologies; they may not always end up having a winner on hand.
One of the reasons for this could be, that with the emergence of social networks and collaborative platforms the lines separating students, learners, subject matter experts are fast disappearing and slowly are grouped into what are called as peer learning groups. And content prepared by publishers would always be viewed as traditional and instructive in nature- prepared by some one else for someone else.
The question to be asked is how long then will such instructive environments survive, especially when the innate need to self assimilate information and convert that into learning is so much stronger.
The problem always has been that of relevance. What usually starts of as a search on Google ends up with cursory glances on Wikipedia. And this is because even though the content is great, only some of it maybe of relevance to us.
So how does one deal with a problem like that since collaborative information platforms like Wikipedia attract content from across the board.
Could the answer to all this be a Personal Wikipedia!!!. It could be a platform where the content search criteria could be based on a host of personalized filters- ranging from even age to the names of subject matter experts and these filters could act also inside the main title of a topic.
All thoughts welcome on this.
