The Alternate Education for the 21st Century

The purpose of the present education system is economic growth not human flourishing. Recent reports have confirmed that the emphasis on material wellbeing has been at the expense of increasing anxiety, depression, insecurity and poor interpersonal relationships. This has resulted in a worldwide call for education to adopt a more holistic approach. Building on recent research from the neurosciences that demonstrates the need to build emotional along with intellectual intelligence, we advocate a ‘whole brain’ approach to education to achieve human flourishing. We posit that education needs to integrate socio-emotional learning skills in addition to skills of problem solving and logical inquiry. We postulate that such transformative developments in education can be best implemented through experiential learning using digital pedagogies leveraging models of AI. We detail embedded Ontology based User Model that power ‘individualized’ learning through performance based trajectories with appropriate new knowledge and complexity.