Networking and Learning

Not everyone excels within the confines of structured learning as found in primary and secondary schools and leading to a University Education, which is considered by many to be the precursor to a rewarding career. Networking is a method of building relationships with like-minded individuals in order to pursue a particular objective.

Computers and the Internet

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have advanced to a point where individuals can discover the facts about almost any subject in which they have an interest in a very short space of time. This has come about by previously privileged information being published in the public domain via the Internet. A fourfold increase in the global number of Internet connections since 2002 (source: www.point-topic.com) expands the opportunities for learning.

Technology, Energy, Time and Price

Each of these words will have a specific meaning to most people. Whilst various dictionaries since 1950 will use a slightly different definition, Technology refers to ‘the industrial application of science’; Energy to ‘vigorous, directed activity’; Time to ‘a nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future’; and Price as being an ‘estimate of value’. The context in which each word is used will further define the author’s intended meaning. The challenges for future generations will inevitable revolve around participants’ abilities to communicate and be understood.