By . According to researchers around the world, there is increasing momentum from some of the world’s most innovative universities to align curriculum, research and overall mission to city development that specifically focuses on technology-based systems and services. In other words, progressive higher education is linking itself more than ever to the Internet of Everything. More...
Coming In From the Cold: Three Trends That Are Shaping the Future of Higher Education
By Kelly Otter - EvoLLLution. It is critical for continuing and non-traditional education leaders to keep track of major trends impacting the higher education space. We can serve as incubators or laboratories at our institutions that promote the development and growth of new and more effective methods of transferring knowledge and cultivating individuals with new skills and abilities that allow them to better participate in building society. We promote educational entrepreneurship. More...
Conférence-Débat « Quel enseignement supérieur pour la France en 2020 ?»
L'institut Montaigne et Terra Nova, en partenariat avec l'AEF, vous invitent au colloque
« Quel enseignement supérieur pour la France en 2020 ?»
Le mardi 6 octobre 2015
À partir de 14h
à l’Université Paris Dauphine (amphithéâtre Raymond Aron)
Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, Paris 16ème. Voir l'article...
What will higher education be like in 2040?
By Angel Calderon. Higher education systems and institutions are very different now compared to 20 or 40 years ago. Worldwide, higher education has experienced several changes that can be summed up as processes of internationalisation, globalisation, commodification and massification. Read more...
Financing education for the developing world through 2030 and beyond
In July, world leaders, education experts, and civil society counterparts met in Oslo, Norway for the Oslo Summit on Education for Development. The Summit aimed to strengthen the level of cooperation and commitment in key actors to ensure that all children have access to a good quality education. A recent Brookings report,"Financing Education: Opportunities for Global Action," prepared as a background input for the summit, explores how the basic education targets could be financed based on an analysis of education resources over the previous decade. More...
A new, more inclusive vision of education and training up to 2020
A joint report by the Commission and Member States published today calls for strengthening cooperation in education and training up to 2020 and especially to promote social inclusion in schools around Europe.
The Commission is today proposing to strengthen cooperation at European level in the field of education and training up to 2020. Its draft of a joint report by the Commission and Member States published today calls for making European education and training systems more socially inclusive, as part of the wider efforts to tackle radicalisation following the 2015 attacks in Paris and Copenhagen.
For more information
ET 2020 Joint Report
ET 2020 Staff Working Document
ET 2020 Council conclusions of May 2009
Post-Paris fact sheet. More...
From Possibilties to Priorities: Inspiring a Vision for Learning
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. From Possibilties to Priorities: Inspiring a Vision for Learning
Johnny Bevacqua, Connected Principals, 2015/09/04
One of the lings we learn bout in philosophy is the phenomenon whereby the question contains the answer it is seeking. More...
Revisiting Vernor Vinge’s “predictions” for 2025
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Revisiting Vernor Vinge’s “predictions” for 2025
Vernor Vinge, 2015/09/04
Of all the predictions outline here, this is the one that seems most interetsing: "people can send silent messages without talking or (openly) typing. More...
These 10 trends are shaping the future of education
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. It’s an exciting time to be in education. The longstanding operating models for both higher ed and K-12 are both in a state of flux, and while demands for innovation probably won’t create an all-new landscape, the resulting product of ongoing changes is likely to be unrecognizable compared to that of the last several decades. More...
Le futur des encyclopédies dans les étoiles
Par Alexandre Roberge. L'être humain a pratiquement depuis le début de son existence recensé les choses qu'il rencontrait, les apprentissages acquis, etc. Le but étant de partager ce bagage aux générations suivantes. Voir l'article...