Learning is the Constant, Time is the Variable

In the credit hour based educational system, time is the constant and learning is the variable. If it is suggested that it will take a student 40 hours to complete the learning of a particular subject or skill, how a student learns is not really the point. It is just about how long it takes. This is partly to do with the institutional industrial model that we currently have installed. This suggests that everyone is going to learn at the exact same pace in the exact same timeframe, which we know to be completely untrue.

What if the learning was the constant and time was the variable? Some skills are going to take children maybe only a day to learn and for others it will take maybe a week or a month. If we are actually trying to teach students how to be effective at that particular subject or skill within the system, I suggest the learning be centered on the students journey and . And they can take it at their own pace, on their own time.