Education/Learning used to be slow knowledge transfer, you found someone or something who knew what you wanted to know, stuck around listening and absorbing till you felt you’re good enough. Knowledge was locked up, in someones head, some book, some report, ..
Wherever it was, many times it tended to be beyond your reach, because it was too expensive, too exclusive, too hard to get into, too whatever. This model roughly describes universities and all education institutions in existence. Few people who were the winners of an arbitrary lottery had exclusive rights to a few precious resources, and not surprisingly finished ahead. But then came the internet. Ideas were free to exist, on their own, loose from the chains of anyone or anything.
Information became free, the acquisition cost dropped to zero. But the changes to how we approach learning haven’t occurred.
We still teach our kids; when our kids should be teaching themselves. Mediocre teachers who served as an information delivery mechanism aren’t needed so much anymore; information has reached the point where it comes to you Great teachers who combined oratory skills with great pedagogical techniques can reach many more students because their audience has broken the confines of a physical classroom. This is something called the Flipped classroom. What does it mean for the learner? The person in question who is acquiring knowledge. We no more need to teach our kids a subject, what we need to teach them is how to learn and let them apply that learning to subject/topic they’re interested in. What this involves is: *Putting together information from different sources into a coherent whole  *Judging the merit of information at hand. The Internet has cheapened not just acquisition but also the creation of information both legitimate and spurious.  ***Allowing room for error, uncertainty and incompleteness.
**The textbook of the internet era is being written and rewritten as we speak, this needs a new approach of incorporating a level uncertainty.