In this post ‘The Upcoming Journalism School Overhaul‘, Frederic Filloux expands about modern education and learning in the specific context of journalism. One of the aspects he highlights is how differently people acquire skills today, thanks to inline bit-size tutorials.
Before, one had to master extensively and widely all techniques associated with its trade before being considered competent (hence, the master and companions approach). Now, “Today’s generation has a completely different approach when it comes to acquiring technical knowledge: they will call for it on a need-to basis, in response to a specific project requirement. They will go on YouTube, which is also an unfathomable resource for skill-learning, to understand how to do a specific kind of shooting or mastering a particular editing technique. This is the way things are done now.“
Modern learning is on-demand, bite sized, and leverages on shared platforms, possibly with collective knowledge sharing. Industrial-age learning models, based on classrooms and large institutions, will get upended up to a certain point. And this is a good thought to have when developing new learning offers. It is important to fit with the new expectations of on-demand, bite-sized learning experiences.
