What is education beyond borders all about?

The concept of education in the twenty-first century has outgrown its twentieth-century meaning. It is time to move beyond measures of disparity by race, ethnicity, and gender to education beyond borders. Education takes place in conditions ranging from a one room, rural classroom with one teacher instructing students in many grades to individual students tapping into distance learning all over the world beyond physical borders. Degrees, credentials, and certifications connote a measure of formal education and organizations. For the twenty- -first century, however, education is not necessarily synonymous with credits earned toward some finite degree or credential. Rather, ongoing learning and the sharing/creation ofknowledge are lifelong processes for individuals and organizations. Increasingly innovation, and creative productive capital demand a multidisciplinary approach. This is not to say that there is no longer a role for formal education but to acknowledge the value of ongoing informal education and shared knowledge, especially performance-based knowledge and team work.

(Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/ concept-of-education. Adapted.)