Let's imagine you're shopping for groceries and you've forgotten what a family member asked for. Would you search forthe nearest payphone? Or your boss tasks you with a project on the housing bubble of the early 2000s: Would you crack open volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica in youroffice library? Or you're preparing students for a future where artificial intelligence, smart machines, and digital competencies will predominate: Would you channel everyone into four-year universities and require them to study a curriculum developed in the last century, using a teaching methodology-passive learningthrough lectures-popularized in the Middle Ages? As Gary Bertoline, former dean of the Purdue Polytechnic Institute and now Purdue'sseniorvice president for PurdueOnlineand Learning Innovation, asks, "How can we allow our educational system to use something that we know is no longer effective?"
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