4/25/2010
Resource Update: Build understanding of your job market and workplace
Online U's (free) online course on Future(s) in Education
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Discussions and proclamations of the future of education, learning, training, and development are popular topics at conferences and in publications. For educators, leaders, and administrators, it's easy to "get lost" in the numerous predictions. What is the next wave of technological change? Are learners really different today? Is our current model of education unsustainable? What can educators do to anticipate and respond to trends?
This course will utilize methods of futures thinking to explore a variety of trends and statistics and provide a series of potential scenarios and future directions. Participants will be actively involved in tracking critical trends, exploring their educational impact, and plan for ways to prepare for important changes.
Course Schedule: http://edfutures.com/courseschedule
Week 1: An introduction to trends and futures thinking: What and Why
Week 2:Creative and innovative thinking
Week 3:How do people decide?
Week 4:Trend Tracking
Week 5: Futures Thinking
Week 6:Data Sources
Week 7:Art as sensemaking
Week 8: Scenario Generation & Analysis
For Questions or to Sign Up, see: http://edfutures.com/contact4/25/2010
Resource Update: The Future of Education: In Britain
The Schommunity of Schome
http://www.schome.ac.uk/wiki/Main_Page
Schome is an ongoing research initiative which is working to develop a 'fit for purpose' education system for society today. We are working on developing a system which will support people learning throughout their lives, from the cradle to the grave. Unlike other initiatives to transform education the Schome Initiative takes the view that you needed to start with a vision of the ideal education system that would genuinely meet the needs of society and individuals in the 21st Century and was unconstrained by pre-conceptions of existing education systems.
