Michael Allen's e-Learning Annual 2012

LEARNING IN THE QUATERNARY ECONOMY

Peter Isackson

I'm grateful to Peter Isackson for making me think about societal, technical, and behavioral changes in a new and potentially more productive way. I've reread this article multiple times, each iteration gifting me new actionable ideas. As we are all aware, the growth of the role of technology in our daily lives has already begun to have a strong impact on human behavior. The economy itself is undergoing massive change too. For many of us, the certainty of uncomfortable changes is great, but undefined. In the “quaternary economy,” built on the principle of relationships rather than simple transactions, new forms of behavior are evolving not only for buying and selling, but also for learning. The ...