Shifting paradigms of Education
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Active Learning
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The shift from an industrial economy to a knowledge-based economy and advances in cognitive science have implications for the goals and process of education.
 

Industrial Economy

Knowledge economy
  • Passive learners
  • Directed learning
  • Knowledge revealed
  • Explicit knowledge
  • Knowledge is discrete
  • Single assessments
  • Single intelligence
  • Instructor technology
  • Alone
  • Just in case
  • Content
  • Linear and planned
  • Active learners
  • Facilitated learning
  • Knowledge discovered
  • Explicit and tacit
  • Knowledge is embedded
  • Multiple assessments
  • Multiple intelligences
  • Ubiquitous technology
  • Alone and together
  • Just in time
  • Content and process
  • Planned and chaotic

Chart from Skill and Young.