What informs and inspires us?
ShapingEDU has its ear to the ground and eye on the horizon. We're always on the lookout for articles, reports and books from education futurists and thought leaders around the world.
Here's a list of what fueled the development of our 2023 Calls To Action:
ASU’s Five Realms Of Teaching & Learning
Realm 4: Education through exploration
High-intensity, technology-based learning experiences for P-20 learners and beyond
· Virtual and augmented reality for learning
· Direct human cognition linkages
· Intelligent tutoring through verbal query
· Group learning tools
Uniting Generations and Sharing Power to Transform Education
A guide to more inclusive and intergenerational convening
One year on from the Transforming Education Summit and the launch of the Youth
Declaration, this guide offers a starting point for all those committed to sharing power and
taking an inclusive approach to transforming education. It has been developed through the
collaborative intergenerational efforts of more than 10 organizations, led by Salzburg Global
Seminar and Big Change. Whatever your role in shaping change in education, whether you
are a teacher, activist, student, government or community leader, researcher, innovator, or
funder, this guide is for you.
United Nations' Transforming Education Summit 2022
The Transforming Education Summit was convened in response to a global crisis in education – one of equity and inclusion, quality and relevance. Often slow and unseen, this crisis is having a devastating impact on the futures of children and youth worldwide.
Global Business Coalition for Education
The Global Business Coalition for Education is a movement of businesses committed to ending the global education crisis. Our mission is to ensure that every child has the best start in life, a safe place to learn, and skills for the future.
Our team is based in New York City is focused on achieving results for the next generation. We have worked with over 150 business to support their social impact work on global education.
This year, our work will impact the lives of 4.2 million children, parents and teachers in more than 60 countries.
The Fifth Wave: The Evolution of American Higher Education
A book outlining the need for colleges and universities to be comprehensively redesigned to educate millions more qualified students while leveraging the complementarities between discovery and accessibility to produce innovative solutions to global challenges.
"Out of the crises of American higher education emerges a new class of large-scale public universities designed to accelerate social change through broad access to world-class knowledge production and cutting-edge technological innovation."
Google For Education’s Future of Education Trend Forecast Report 2022
Trend 1: Rising demand for global problem solvers
As the world faces a new set of global challenges, education systems will become a central part of the solution, helping future generations embrace global mindsets and skill sets.
Trend 2: Change in the skill sets required for work
As technology advances, education will focus on
equipping students with the high-demand skills they’ll need to thrive in a new world of work.
Trend 3: Shift to a lifelong learning mindset
As lifespans increase and societal change accelerates, the idea of lifelong learning is gaining traction, with more tools available for upskilling and advancement.
Gartner’s Hype Cycle For Higher Education Report 2022 (July 2022)
The 2022 Hype Cycle for Higher Education includes four key theme areas around: 1) Learning Environments, 2) Experience and Engagement, 3) Operations and Integrations, and 4) Business Models.
MIT x J-WEL’s Ideas For Designing An Affordable New Education Institution (September 2022)
In this white paper, a group of co-authors at MIT lay out their vision for a New Educational Institution (NEI). Co-authors Sanjay Sarma, Diana Henderson, Daniel Jackson, David Kaiser, and S.P. Kothari draw on more than 20 years of research and leadership in learning science and digital education innovation to propose a new kind of institute of higher learning that delivers high quality, affordable bachelor’s-level education, focused on workplace readiness, delivered through modular, stackable microcredentials.
World Economic Forum’s The Global Risks Report 2023 (Published quadrennially)
The 18th edition of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report analyses the risks from societal fractures—manifested through persistent and emerging risks to human health, rising unemployment, widening digital divides, youth disillusionment and geopolitical fragmentation.
US National Intelligence Council's Global Trends 2040: A More Contested World
The NIC has delivered Global Trends to each incoming or returning U.S. presidential administration since 1997 as an unclassified assessment of the strategic environment, reflecting a broad range of expert opinion in the United States and abroad. The report is intended to help policymakers and citizens anticipate and prepare for a range of possible futures.
Global Trends 2040 identifies four structural forces that will shape the future – demographics, the environment, economics, and technology – and assesses how they affect decisions and outcomes. It further describes five potential scenarios for the world in 2040, based on different combinations of the structural forces, emerging dynamics, and key uncertainties. It ends with a series of graphics displaying key demographic trends in nine geographic regions.
World Economic Forum’s Education 4.0 Framework: Catalysing Education 4.0: Investing in the Future of Learning for a Human-Centric Recovery (May 2022)
There is a unique window of opportunity to invest in Education 4.0: an approach to reimagining education in a way that is inclusive, focuses on a broad range of skills to prepare learners for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and leverages technological and pedagogical innovation to put learners at the centre of learning. Global inequities in childhood education—compounded by a COVID-19 pandemic that has shuttered schools for an estimated 1.6 billion children, as well as rapid technological change that is sure to transform the nature of work for the next generation—further underline the need to push learning beyond the pre-pandemic "business as usual".
The Station1 Model
In 2016, then-MIT dean Christine Ortiz left the university to start a new type of university without lectures or classrooms. That idea has grown into a fledgling nonprofit university called Station1, which its website says has “educated over 90 undergraduate fellows” and partnered with 90 organizations.
Station1 is ... building a new higher education institution based on socially-directed science and technology. Drawing upon a foundation of inclusion and equity, the Station1 model re-envisions the scientific and technological inquiry process through the integration with humanistic fields at a
granular level. In addition to core values and a mindset of social responsibility, rigorous cross-disciplinary methodologies are utilized to interrogate and shape technologically-driven social impact iteratively at every stage towards more equitable, ethical, and sustainable outcomes.
The ShapingEDU Community
Listening to our Community of over 4,000 active education changemakers from around the world is a critical component of what shapes ShapingEDU.