When You Stop Learning, You’re Dead

Phase 5: Matrix style. You’ll download Samuel L Jackson’s brain into yours.

Phase 4: “Online education” won’t exist. It’ll just be “education.” We’ll see almost seamless integration between physical and digital worlds. To quote Mark Twain: “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

Phase 3: Education designed for the internet (e.g. MasterClass Codecademy). We are still early in this phase — actually designing classes for the web. When Phase 1 made information easily accessible, the role of education became not the transfer of facts (which many classes still rely on) — but to inspire you to go learn, to go do, to geek out. To ... See more

Phase 1: Simply put information on the web (e.g. Wikipedia)

There are different phases:

I still think online education is in its infancy.

Entertainment and education are not opposites. Education can (and should also) be entertaining.

The rate of change has increased so dramatically that we can no longer rely on school to teach us everything we need to know. We have to take learning into our own hands. There’s an unprecedented amount of information available to us — but finding the best content from the best teachers has never been more important. With MasterClass, I wanted to r... See more