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Enabling Self Education

Let’s face it: “Education” as we’ve known it for generations is in trouble.

Stuck in an 1860′s “training workers” mindset, traditional education – from k-12 to higher to vocational – is pedaling hard but losing ground every day.

It’s the great heresy of our age, but it’s true: “Education” is no longer the way to become “educated.”

For now, and for the future, the way to success is self-education.

The New Standard for Being “Educated”

Knowledge is the raw material of success. Always has been.

However, the “Education Age” let us believe that merely having knowledge is enough.

As if “Being Educated” was a state, a status based on something done in the past.

It’s not.

“Being Educated” is now a verb, something we’re doing all the time:

  • Applying knowledge.
  • Activating knowledge.
  • Acquiring more knowledge.

Really smart people have already begun to figure this out and apply it to their lives.

Here is the new “education cycle” for success:

  • Seize Opportunity
  • Self-Educate
  • Create Value

These three items represent the keys to prosperity in the 21st century, and they available to anyone.

No elite education required. In fact, “elite” education probably only slows down the process.

Determined, free-thinkers have exactly the kind of gritty advantage formal education can never provide: They’ve already chosen their own paths.

We love self-educators.

We’ve designed a comprehensive alternative education system just for them:

  • Micro Schools: Tiny, highly targeted learning programs designed specifically for self-learners
    Ames Media Institute – Join the Now Media
    AppDevU.com – Learn to Build Apps. Fast
    RSI Mobile – Business Intelligence for the Rest of US
  • ILOHE: The Alliance for Independent Learning and Open Higher Education
  • Openware Institute: Open courseware registry for a first-class college equivalent education. Tuition free.
  • Oppcaster: A career pathing tool dropouts can use to discover opportunities fit for them.
  • PlanetGED: A game-based study program for the GED Exam.
  • The DropOut Zone: Our “Opportunity Portal” for dropouts.
  • VirtualStudent.com: Resources for virtual students (and dropouts who need formal credentials).
  • Virtrain.com: The Web’s best virtual training for an accelerated on-ramp to a great career.

There’s much more on the way.

We’re delighted to connect with self-learners.