A new system for education needs to focus on a framework of flexibility and engagement
and supporting the learner on an individual basis. Empowering learners is an important role
of schools at all levels from primary to higher education. The ability to make decisions about
information based on interest and engagement helps to cement learning as an important
part of a person’s life. The sentiment that interest-driven learning can lead to people having
deficits in their education assumes that people, given the option, will only explore very
narrow fields of information. However, if learning is made an open and engaging activity
students have a greater general interest in probing the world around them, which requires
information literacy skills