Today the world is very different from what it was from a decade ago. Of course, as time passes there are many things that keep changing in the world. The way people learn probably has changed more than anything else. Learning is always evolving, from the late 16th century when learning was limited to stories due to the lack of books, to the late 18th century when everyone did know how to read. Even today, a world of information technology there is quite a large number of people who are illiterate. According to UNESCO there are 1 billion people in the world who still do not know how to read, a 14.28% of the total population.
The Internet has made it easy for people to share. This sharing does not always have to be limited to pictures and tweets. There is no limit to what can and cannot be shared. Some of the things shared on the Internet can be of great value. One of the main problems with the “knowledge” on the Internet is that there is no telling what is right and what is wrong. It is conundrum for a lot of people wanting to learn over the Internet alone by themselves. Like everything else in this world, the contents on the Internet have their own writers or authors. Even though, neutrality is a great quality in a tutor, it is often absent in the teachings found on the Internet and can sometimes go from a lecture to propaganda in a split second. Wikipedia.org has managed to fight off a lot of this for the generalist, but even Wikipedia is not an adequate and credulous source that can be quoted in research. Luckily there seems to be a solution to this problem, it’s called the MIT OpenCourseWare.