ABSTRACT
Education that prepared people to work in industry was organized around formal institutional environments. The understanding of learning in knowledge economics is well articulated by new learning sciences. The knowledge of any given individual is often less than the knowledge of a collective of people who share information. Knowledge is distributed through social networks, the way people construct knowledge changes. When technology was first used as a tool in a learning environment, it simply delivered the same learning in a new way. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) assessed older educational practices as one of Korea's primary weaknesses in achieving an innovation economy: High school curricula place too much emphasis on preparation for the national university entrance exam and rely heavily on rote learning. Sawyer maintains that the old ways of instruction-developed for an industrial economy in the early twentieth century-require that students learn free of the context in which they live and will work.
