Milla – „Modulares Interaktives Lebensbegleitendes Lernen für Alle“

Under the acronym „Milla“, a group of MEPs has presented a concept that is supposed to change learning on the internet. „The idea is to encourage people to learn,“ explains Thomas Heilmann (CDU), who leads the working group of the project Milla. The state should operate and fund the platform. Milla is supposed to become the Netflix of learning, so attractive and alive that learners and teachers are eager to participate. How can we make it happen? The following functions will make it difficult for success to elude your system.

• Learners and providers of online courses should be rewarded for their efforts
• Users can earn Milla points and get bonuses for it. In this way, incentives should be created to encourage less educated parts of the population to continue their education
• The Milla points can also be used by all „education currency“. They are a proof of competence. Both online and offline measures can be rated with Milla points.
• Everyone should be able to be learners and teachers. Whether youtube star or cook in five-star hotel. Everyone can pass on knowledge and everyone can learn.
• The learning materials should always be evaluated and released after examination.

There will certainly be a lot of discussions about the project, but it does show a good one. Education will fundamentally change over the next few years and will no longer take place in the defined paths as before. Educational models will emerge, giving us more room for creative development and involving all resources.

We also have to rethink and reform our educational models fundamentally. On the one hand is because of the specific demands of the job market, and on the other for the „artificial intelligence“.