Imagine a learning environment, whether in a school or corporate setting, where learners are given the opportunity to choose topics that interest and engage them by truly personalizing their learning experience.
In the 2006 Hollywood comedy film, Accepted, Bartleby Gaines (played by Justin Long) and a group of high school graduates create their own fake college after being rejected from the colleges to which they applied. Their plan bombs when the website, which automatically accepts any applicant, enrolls hundreds of other rejected students. Bartleby realizes that these people have nowhere else to go, so he lets them believe that the school is real. Disenchanted with traditional college life, he decides to let the students create their own curricula, which range from the culinary arts and sculpture to meditation and even unusual courses such as psychokinesis.