Today s skills are obsolete even before tomorrow dawns. The traditional approach failed to maximize the fullest potential of individual creativity by creating a normative approach to learning where memorization and simple application are rewarded and where skill learning is seen as an end product. The process of creative thinking is not encouraged and experimentation and risk taking in production and application of knowledge is discouraged. Effective learning is learning that changes the learner's behavior over a sustained period. Learning that is tailored to the learner, which takes place quickly with a minimum of waste of time and energy is efficient learning.
Technology has the potential to create such an environment for effective and efficient learning.
If the teacher has to impart the knowledge then it should be sequenced, broken down into convenient and manageable pieces. Our sequencing has to be both vertical and horizontal. At our universities we thus have courses at hundred level, two hundred level and so on. We also have created disciplines that separate from each other and thus compartmentalize our world of thinking. We, furthermore, have created hours of contact with students that define parameters of knowledge.