Transmogrification is the process of changing or being changed in a significant way, often in a humorous or grotesque way. For example, you might describe a caterpillar turning into a butterfly or a rusty car becoming a futuristic vehicle as a transmogrification.
Here are some synonyms for transmogrification: convert, metamorphose, transfigure, transform, and transmute.
The origin of the word "transmogrify" is unclear, but one theory is that it may have come from a mistake to say "transmigrate", which means to pass into another body after death. In the Calvin and Hobbes universe, a transmogrifier is a device that can transform its user into any desired creature or item.
I truly believe that 2025 will be the Year of the Transmogrification of Education.
Today, there are 174K+ (K-20) schools across North America that are serviced by the NADLA.org. That is 579M+ people serviced by just under 200K+ (K-20) schools.
Today, you can host a Zoom Webinar with up to 1M+ people LIVE on the event. So, you can have let's say 500 people LIVE in the auditorium or theater, 500K+ LIVE via Zoom and 5M+ via the archives hosted in the cloud.
Today, you can access high-speed Internet via Viasat or Starlink which gave birth to AsiaDLA.org and AfricaDLA.org and EuropeDLA.org and now the GlobalDLA.org
Today, you can take a LIVE or a recorded course on Udemy or Kajabi or LinkedIn Learning or Mighty Networks or YouTube or a dozen other such educational platforms. Almost every name-brand college or university has an online option.
Today, you can buy a book 'Read by the Author' via Audible.com and it will feel like the author is right in the room with you (or with you in your car, or with you in the dog park, or...)
Myself, I drove from Northern New Jersey to PURDUE UNIVERSITY in West Lafayette, Indiana many, many times starting in 1978. It was 732 miles each way - around 10 hours drive time. Today, you can get an AMAZING education from anywhere in the world, via a school like Purdue University Online. Or Penn State World Campus. Or RUTGERS or MIT or UCONN or... (Again - from anywhere in the world, there is no need to live on campus - any campus).
Many of these things have come to front of mind, due to climate change, or due to the state of the global political climate, or AI, and other matters. But I feel that 2025 will be the year of the tipping point for education. I feel that the next 12 months is the period of time where everything changes for all of us, everywhere. Anywhere.
Yes, the world will transmogrify for all of us, and it will begin with EDUCATION.
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