Ubiquitous learning is the acknowledgement of humans greatest trait. We as a species are life long learners. There has never been a point in history where a man, woman, or child has been set in their surroundings. People have always had questions in need of answers from small daily tasks to complex queries. As we grow up there is a rigid learning plan with deadlines and standards. Schools help craft people to abase line level of functioning. When we finish our formal education there is no end to the learning but in the past, it has meant a transition to self-guided experiences learning in workplaces or self-study. For many, this means the volume and quality of what we learn are reduced.
In recent times our capacity to share knowledge and promote learning has expanded the traditional ideas of how we learn. No longer is the capacity to learn concentrated into our youth is set spaces but is expanded into new realms of time and space. While this expands our horizons fo learning it also requires a shift in approach. Inset schools particularly for younger minds, there is a higher duty on the instructors to ensure the learning occurs. With test and evaluation as tools to prove the process. In online platfoms, there are greater luxuries for evaluations and communications with "live learning" as webinars and chat rooms or more temporarily flexible with podcast recordings and discussion boards. These new forms can increase the accountability of the learner, no more can a teacher force or be so present to impose learning. With the digital age, the inspiration to learn falls on the learner in lui of having a physical presence to be inspired by. This is not a new problem simply the extension of existing issues. In elementary school your with the same teacher and 30 other students who all know your name makes the learning environment feel obvious and enforced. As we move on to higher education its easy to be lost in a crowd of 300 students in your lecture hall. In online learning being identified as more than a number can be challenging. However, for those who are in eager search of an answer the affordance in time and space by online learning is enough to motivate and ensure proper knowledge transfer.