Beyond horseless-carriage thinking

Horseless-carriage thinking refers to the way automobiles were designed for the first few decades of their existence. They were little more than a horse-drawn buggy with the horse taken off the front and an engine bolted on underneath. New technologies and communications media often face such limited thinking before creative designers break through to realize their true potential.

We live in times of rapid change. Amidst such roiling change, we seek guidance in charting our course. But a finger in the wind reveals that winds are blowing in three directions at once and shifting direction every five seconds.

If we are to harness new technologies, new media, and new economic models to radically improve education and training, we must go beyond our current ways of thinking and escape the limits of our current designs.

In this presentation, we consider how you, not the so-called experts, are inventing the future of e-learning. We look at the scope and rate of technological change facing us. We consider how previous generations have reacted to change. And we see how new ways of thinking can release the potential of e-learning to be more than pale mimics of current methods of training.

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