Technology can make this participation more convenient and more effective. An individual's effectiveness often depends on what they can do or learn quickly. If learning is not available when needed, the opportunity passes. For learning to be useful, content and courses must be available in a variety of formats that allow students to access the material, on-demand, from a variety of locations. In addition, the acquisition of information or skills as they are needed results in improved learning comprehension.
Technology can help ensure that learning opportunities are available when they are needed.
A strong schools system relies on the quality of its teachers, which depends in part on teacher professional development and retraining. Teachers must be better prepared to educate students for society's changing needs. Although the potential challenge may be at the school level, the solution may come from higher education. Systemic reform and redesign. Its current structures limit its ability to succeed in a world where customers, competition and keeping pace with change demand flexibility, quick responses and new assumptions about how work should be done.