Education: a stage of life or a lifelong process?

On May 24th at the University of Cundinamarca, the conference "Invisible Learning" was held, given by John Moravec, researcher and expert in education from the University of Minnesota (United States), who has studied the concept of education and its transformations with the advances of technology for several years.

“Education cannot be thought of as a stage of life but as a permanent process in which the human being recognizes himself and acquires new knowledge every day,” Moravec stated.

“Invisible learning is a conceptual proposal that takes into account the impact of technological advances and the transformations of formal, non-formal, and informal education, in order to explore a range of options for creating relevant futures for current education. Invisible learning does not intend to propose a theory but a metatheory capable of integrating different ideas and perspectives,” is the thesis that Moravec maintains.

“What revolution would you like to see in education? The world is rapidly transforming; we are valued for who we are, for our tacit and explicit knowledge,” were the words with which Moravec opened his speech at UCundinamarca.

The education expert invited attendees to reinvent themselves, and urged students to excel through imagination, creativity, and innovation. Moravec indicated that most of us learn invisibly, meaning outside of formal education; it's what we learn out of curiosity.

The key to invisible learning is focusing on how to learn, not what to learn; it's a way to enable bottom-up learning for personal knowledge development. Invisible learning emerges when we eliminate control structures, the expert emphasized.

The academic event was led by the Office of Virtual and Distance Education.

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WHO IS MORAVEC

John Moravec, co-director of the Invisible Learning Institute and founder of Education Futures LLC, professor and researcher at the University of Minnesota, advisor, consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank, and researcher of projects on innovations with ICT.

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