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Social Learning - Learning by observing, conversing, or questioning. This can take place in an informal or formal setting and sometimes may even occur without the learner realizing that learning is taking place or without making a conscious decision to learn. It's organic and usually unorganized. Social Learning is more focused on the needs of the individual. In social learning, a participant might ask "What do *I* need to know and who knows how to answer this quickly?" Knowledge is primarily consumed or pulled from experts.

Teacher pioneers in this new practice say that, when flipped, the standard instructional cycle looks something like this:

In framing such alternative models, however, I find myself wrestling with the unpleasant truth that the primary barriers to altering curricular, pedagogical, and assessment practices towards any transformative vision of education are not conceptual, technical or economic, but instead psychological, political, and cultural. The largest challenges in moving beyond historic models of schooling are people's emotions and their typically unconscious beliefs, assumptions, and values. To be achieved, a transformative model must generate professional commitment, political will, and cultural enthusiasm - not an easy task.

During my time at Precedent, we noticed that universities are shifting away from creating recruitment apps, and are looking more at developing applications that benefit existing students. These serve a dual purpose. As well as improving the student experience they also enable prospective students to see what really happens at the university and feel a part of student life before they enrol.