Learning in the Digital Era

Mitchell L. Stevens

Stanford University

@SSE 19 April 2013

the revolutionary change:

a shift from education to learning

learning

• is learner-focused

• occurs everywhere

• happens any/all the time

• happens over the entire life course

the support of learning

• is widely distributed across a great variety of platforms, objects, and contexts

• is only partly an enterprise of states and can be governed by them only partially

• is attractive to profit-seeking enterprises of all kinds

the new science of learning

• is epistemologically distinct from the (social) science of education we built in the 20th century

the new science of learning

• is epistemologically distinct from the (social) science of education we built in the 20th century

• is only now under construction

– (e.g. lytics.stanford.edu)

• must be globally and contextually distributed

• must be defined primarily by academic values and built as a global public good

for more

• online.stanford.edu

• lytics.stanford.edu

• edf.stanford.edu

• M. Mitchell Waldrop, “Campus 2.0,” Nature 14 March 2013, pp. 160-163.

• contact me at mitchell.stevens@stanford.edu