Thinking in the future notes

(Instructional Technology). IT is usually a toolkit application that is predetermined and even institution- alized with little, if any, user discretion, choice, or leverage. IT tends to be top-down, designer determined, administratively driven, commercially fashioned. In participatory learning, out- comes are typically customizable by the participants.
Most university education, certainly, is founded on ideas of individual training, discrete disciplines, and isolated achievement and accomplishment.
Too many conventional modes of learning tend to be passive, lecture driven, hierarchical, and largely unidirectional from instructor to student.

Traditionally, institutions have been thought about in terms of rules, regulations, norms governing interactivity, production, and distribution within the institutional structure.
Network culture and The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age associated learning practices and arrangements suggest that we think of institutions, especially those promoting learning, as mobilizing networks. The networks enable a mobilizing that stresses flexibility, interactivity, and outcome
an increasingly horizontal structure of learning puts pressure on how learning institutions schools, colleges, universities, and their surrounding support apparatuses enable learning. Institutional education has tended to be authoritative, top-down, standardized, and predicated on individuated assessment measured on standard tests. Increasingly today, work regimes involve collaboration with colleagues in teams