"Learning anytime, anyplace, anywhere, is the
battle cry of the Learning Revolution.",
according to Terry O’Banion.
Do we place learning first and provide educational
experiences for learners anyway, anyplace, anytime?
No.
Do we want to?
Yes.
What is the single greatest drawback?
Our inability to modularize, fractionalize or provide real
alternative instruction – not just a reframing of a 16 week semester with
technology.
What keeps us from truly being freewheeling innovators of in
the learning revolution?
Learning outcomes (credit course learning outcomes and for
placement policy, developmental prerequisites for college credit courses)
The anyway, any place, anytime experience for learners will
require the establishment of developmental prerequisites for all college level
courses to insure that assessment/placement policies actually do their job, and
that more precise developmental instruction can be delivered.
Developmental prerequisites for college credit courses will
be required to expand the ways that we can begin to even think about providing
educational experiences for learners that even wants to brush against the
battle cry of the Learning Revolution of anyway, anyplace, anytime instruction.
The whole idea of combining learning outcomes across
disciplines to meet the needs of students, the workforce and the community must
have a solid foundation of equal flexibility and an equal foundation of
prerequisite developmental skills to sustain then movement.