Effective Learning the Propel-Learn Way: an Evidence Based, Mobile Delivered Program Engendering Self-Directed Life Long Learning Habits and Strategies for Distance Education Students and Staff

Abstract

To be human is to learn. We learn from the day we are born until the day we die. Education aims at making learning more effective and more focussed. The question is, however, when has education reached its goal?For a very long time education focussed on the content of the discipline or subject that is being taught, and assessment centred around testing whether the content has been mastered. That did bring about some success, as can be seen from the progress made in many fields by humankind. However, this is not adequate anymore. So much has happened in the history of the sciences, that we are faced with an information overload as never before. The knowledge explosion is a reality. According to Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Alphabet-Google, “Every two days now we create about five exabytes of data. That is as much information as humans did from the dawn of civilisation up until 2003.”