Thinking Outside the Box

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Author(s): Andrew Brooks (Centre for Interprofessional eLearning (CIPeL), UK)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 9
Source title: Interprofessional E-Learning and Collaborative Work: Practices and Technologies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Adrian Bromage (Coventry University, UK), Lynn Clouder (Coventry University, UK), Jill Thistlethwaite (University of Warwick, UK)and Frances Gordon (SHU, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-889-0.ch029

Keywords: Business & Technical Education / Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference

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Education is moving out of the classroom and into the real world, driven by both emerging Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and new economic models. The boom of the web and social networking has revolutionised global communication and collaboration. A DIY culture and industries are emerging because of this. Mobile devices connecting to the digital superhighways are merging the real and digital worlds. This, coupled with the falling cost of the hardware as well as the free software movement may soon place a new model of education into the grasp of almost everyone. A model where education is no longer the process of being fed information, but rather a process of enquiry, exploration, discovery, expression and re-interpretation of the world around us on our own terms. The potential for learning from and with each other at this moment in time is unprecedented.

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