"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.