By Mitchell Stevens, Stanford University Presentation on 19 April 2013 at the Stockholm School of Economics

1. Learning in the Digital Era
Mitchell L. Stevens
Stanford University
@SSE 19 April 2013

2. the revolutionary change:
a shift from education to learning

3. learning
• is learner-focused
• occurs everywhere
• happens any/all the time
• happens over the entire life course

4. the support of learning
• is widely distributed across a great variety of
platforms, objects, and contexts
• is only partly an enterprise of states and can
be governed by them only partially
• is attractive to profit-seeking enterprises of all
kinds

5. the new science of learning
• is epistemologically distinct from the (social)
science of education we built in the 20th
century

8. the new science of learning
• is epistemologically distinct from the (social)
science of education we built in the 20th
century
• is only now under construction
– (e.g. lytics.stanford.edu)
• must be globally and contextually distributed
• must be defined primarily by academic values
and built as a global public good

9. for more
• online.stanford.edu
• lytics.stanford.edu
• edf.stanford.edu
• M. Mitchell Waldrop, “Campus 2.0,” Nature 14
March 2013, pp. 160-163.
• contact me at mitchell.stevens@stanford.edu