Another sign that the college lecture might be dying: Harvard University physics professor Eric Mazur is championing the "flipped classroom," a model where information traditionally transferred during lectures is learned on a student's own time, and classroom time is spent discussing and applying knowledge to real-world situations.

How often have you attended a meeting or training session or taken an e-learning program and then failed at applying your learning to your job? Often this results from one of the following causes:
• Because the subject matter was brand new to you, you didn’t know what questions to ask in the class, so when you tried to apply your learning to your work, you find that you now have questions, but no resources available to answer those questions.