New technologies often have the potential for disrupting existing established practices, but nowhere is this so
pertinent as in education and training today. And yet, education has been glacially slow to adopt these changes
in a large scale way, and innovations seem to be imposed mainly by students’ and their changing social
lifestyles than by policy. Will this change? Leadership is sorely needed. Education needs to become more
modular and move out of the classroom into informal settings, homes, and especially the internet. Nationwide
certifications based on these modules would permit technology to enter education more rapidly. Smaller nations
may be more flexible in making these very disruptive changes.