Text to Task: Simplifying Education
Sep 5, 2026 · 20 min · 8 segments
Today's learners want flexibility. Working professionals need education that fits into their lives, not the other way around. And with AI and digital tools changing everything, one question matters…
Ingrid Hovdar-StojakovicGuest
Gargi SarkarHostWell, that is a big one and what we've been seeing over the last, I would say about 30 years, is that there's a very disruptive development of how information is accessible.
When as recent as 30 years ago, teachers were more or less the exclusive source of information, we see now that learners, students, have a lot of information accessibility via the internet.
And this is something that we really need to take into consideration.
So we have to understand that we need to move away from imparting information to helping learners understand, filter, retrieve and digest information so that they can apply this in an everyday context.
And yeah, but this is exactly what we've been trying to do now for the last years.
How do we go about doing this? How do we support learners in their journey? And because that information overload that we are confronted with is increasing the complexity of learning scenarios enormously.
And that can also lead to a certain fatigue in the students and also the teachers.
Well, that is a big one and what we've been seeing over the last, I would say about 30 years, is that there's a very disruptive development of how information is accessible.
When as recent as 30 years ago, teachers were more or less the exclusive source of information, we see now that learners, students, have a lot of information accessibility via the internet.
And this is something that we really need to take into consideration.
So we have to understand that we need to move away from imparting information to helping learners understand, filter, retrieve and digest information so that they can apply this in an everyday context.
And yeah, but this is exactly what we've been trying to do now for the last years.
How do we go about doing this? How do we support learners in their journey? And because that information overload that we are confronted with is increasing the complexity of learning scenarios enormously.
And that can also lead to a certain fatigue in the students and also the teachers.
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