So, because we are learning, simply for the love of it, we create a learning commons. And because the technology allows us to, we’ve made it global. With notable exceptions (and we’ll look at them in detail later) most of the organised learning that occurs in corporations and in schools has been distorted by enclosures, separating learning into ‘subjects’ and learners into units of production. It’s the equivalent of erecting fences on 17th-century common land in order to make farming more efficient. Economically, it may have been effective (although some would dispute that), but the sense of
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