More Lies About Learning: Leading Executives Separate Truth From Fiction

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Lies About Learners: It’s Time to Disrupt the Model of Learning

Annmarie Neal and Daniel Sonsino

Between the birth of the world and 2003, there were five exabytes of information created. We [now] create five exabytes every two days. See why it is so painful to operate in information markets?

—Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, at Google’s Atmosphere 2010 conference

Never before has the world been marked by such turbulence, complexity, ambiguity, and relentless speed. An insatiable pursuit of technology is propelling a new era of globalization, economic value creation, innovation, and discovery. The pervasive nature of mobile technology and social networks has increased the size of the network, giving voice and economic opportunity to many who were previously ...