On the relevance of education: David Wiley

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On the relevance of education...
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So, is education relevant?
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The answer to that is education is at least
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as relevant as ever, probably more relevant than ever
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because so much of what we need to do in our daily lives
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requires more education that has in the past.
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So education is important and relevant.
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Is the way that is delivered or provided to us always relevant?
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The answer of course is no.
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Academic…
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the word academic is almost synonymous with irrelevant.
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So there are large strides that we need to make,
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things we need to do in terms of connecting what we do
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in our formal education programs to people’s real lives
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so that they care about them.
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And in some ways Open Educational Resources is useful in helping to do that
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because they’re not things that have to be kept inside school,
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that you can only use at school and you have to leave at school.
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They go out into your life with you, you find them when you search on Google,
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they’re just more connected to your life.
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So I think they are a nice bridge into making education slightly more relevant, hopefully, in the way that is delivered.

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