Creating the Future of Learning - A conversation with Katherine Prince
Channel: Center for Online Innovation in Learning
Date: 2015-04-15

As forecast in KnowledgeWorks’ Recombinant Education: Regenerating the Learning Ecosystem, education is facing a decade of deep disruption as individuals’ relationships with institutions change, new ways of facilitating learning emerge, and new social and cultural contexts affect how and why people approach learning. Future trends highlight the opportunity to create a diverse and vibrant learning ecosystem in which educators, learners, and families create many different combinations of learning resources and experiences to reflect their particular needs, interests, and goals. This modular and interoperable learning ecosystem could be characterized by radical personalization for all learners along with new ways of delivering and credentialing learning. It could also have the resilience to keep adapting as learners’ needs and local conditions change.

In this COIL Conversation, Katherine Prince, Senior Director, Strategic Foresight at KnowledgeWorks, highlights the trends shaping the future of learning, explores their implications for today’s education system, and highlights possibilities for steering the expansion of the learning landscape in a direction that is vibrant for all young people. In so doing, she draws upon KnowledgeWorks’ Recombinant Education forecast and the related paper, “Innovating toward a Vibrant Learning Ecosystem: Ten Pathways for Transforming Learning.”

KnowledgeWorks’ Recombinant Education forecast:
http://knowledgeworks.org/future-of-learning

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