https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC0G7TRGbd0&w=560&h=315

Just when you thought it was safe to to use the terms ‘Education’ and ‘Learning’ for the things that kids do at school…Bibblio CEO Mads Holmen flips these concepts on their heads.

About Bibblio

Bibblio is a social platform for discovering and collecting the web’s best learning materials.

According to Holmen, Bibblio “has two components: it has people that make stuff that make people smarter…and then it has all the people that want to get smarter“.

Holmen’s insights on Education and Learning

He quotes Joi Ito, Head of MIT from a previous Ted Talk, “Education is what other people do to you. Learning is what you do for yourself“, and maintains that these two concepts are very distinct. In the past, both Education and Learning revolved around a physical institution, following a fixed curriculum towards a qualification. Now, with the evolution of the internet, Learning is much broader, it happens outside of the classroom, often online, where materials are freely available. It’s about freedom and choice. “The paradox is that education is getting more and more expensive, but actually the cost of learning is approaching zero”.

Holmen’s predictons for Education and Learning

He believes a paradigm shift is on it’s way.

Expensive>Curriculum>Passive>Education

Almost Free>Community>Active>Learning

He gives the example of learning via YouTube which shows us that “Learning can be fun, learning can be interesting, learning can be driven by curiosity, rather than external motivation like a job or success”. He sees participation as a key feature in future learning, where passive learning will give way to a more active form of learning.

Holmen’s predictons for skills of the future

He argues for a new broader framework like Howard Gardner’s 5 Minds of the Future

Workers of the future will instill Discipline, Creativity, Synthesising (take lots of information and distill it into meaning) and Knowledge. Ethics, will play a part, where being aware of global cultures and different ways of thinking make you more efficient in the global context.  Holmen hopes that more people will create great educational materials, and give them away for free, such as – Creative Commons, 4.0 etc.