The educational stakes have been raised.
Every generation needs more advanced education than the one that came before.
Advances in technology are fueling the phenomenal economic growth that the US is experiencing, and our ability to remain competitive and cooperative with other countries in the world depends on a technologically-literate work force. We need instructional designs that maximize transfer to the real world, enhance critical thinking abilities, and encourage the habit of life-long learning. Instead, virtually all college faculty teach the way they were taught. In fact, it would be difficult to design an educational model that is more at odds with current research on human cognition than the one that is used in most colleges and universities and in workplace and other settings where adults engage in formal learning activities.