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campuses kind of look like an expand version of school, right, like they
might have bigger, more facility, but they are also basically have
classrooms for stepped curriculum-like learning and separately reference
libraries for search-based learning. Anyway, what's so special about this
metaphor, what is so interesting about it? To answer that I'd like to ask
you to imagine one more thing, let's pretend there is a parallel universe
somewhere in the galaxy, there is a place that's identical to earth,
however, in that world they don't have the internet and we do. What's
the difference between this world and that world with no internet? I think
the difference is that in our world the internet is the library. It's not just
any ordinary library, it's a very, very big library that has no closing hours,
it's got all the media formats you want, for better or for worse, articles,
videos, YouTube, it has a crowd-sourced encyclopedia, and can be
reached by you anytime, anywhere you have an internet connection. All
of its knowledge is available at your fingertips if you have a Smartphone
and know how to search the catalogue. This ubiquity of access changes
everything for the classroom and library model.
So this creates the month potential for a learner's learning these
days to be dominated by the internet. So, for example, a learner might
first come to learn about a concept like, say, chemistry, like the first time
that they learn it instead of being at school might be through the internet
rather than the classroom. In such a world a learner might only go into a
classroom when they decide they want to explore a topic with more
structure and that might be an online course. So in this way rather than
the library being the secondary place of learning it may well be that the
classroom becomes the secondary place of learning. Just something to
think about.
You know, if I revisit this first metaphor just think about the
interaction where let's say you are a professor and you are trying to