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Shaping Postsecondary Education’s Futures
Explore trends shifting the postsecondary landscape, look at COVID-19’s impacts and see future possibilities for postsecondary education.
Topics: Future of Learning
We Need Human-Centered Learning Systems
Katherine Prince introduces Envisioning Human-Centered Learning Systems - how it came about, why it's needed and what's in it.
Education in the Balance: Tensions Affecting Education’s Futures
Exposing issues as COVID-19 continues to unfold and the longstanding movement toward racial justice continues to gain traction
Futures Thinking for Education Programs
Even as we navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, we are also living through an era shift. What forces are shaping learning,...
Topics: Future of Learning
Caregiving and the Future
Take a look at the opportunities, challenges and potential outcomes that resulted from scenarios of a recent play of the...
What Do We Want for Education Post-Pandemic?
What's required of us to build a shared vision for education? A recent conversation from Philanthropy Forward provides some insight.
Topics: Future of Learning
Observing Interconnections: A Futures Thinking Now Conversation
One of the Futures Studies tools everyone can use to analyze issues at the systems level is a Connection Circle....
Communicating the Future: A Futures Thinking Now Conversation
Katherine Prince and Jason Swanson chat about the tools and resources needed to frame and prepare for change and why...
Remaking Tomorrow Explores a Just, Learner-Centered Future for Education in the Greater Pittsburgh Region
In partnership with Remake Learning, KnowledgeWorks presents Remaking Tomorrow: Learning in a Post-Pandemic Future.
Topics: Future of Learning
Education Futures: Balancing the Familiar and the Unknown
A publication aiming to help strategic foresight practitioners and organizations considering investing in Futures Studies
Topics: Future of Learning
The Education Changemaker’s Guidebook to Systems Thinking
This guidebook introduces the theories, language, mindsets and tools of systems thinking for the purpose of informing approaches to systems...
Topics: Systems Change
The Future of Learning and COVID-19
Individuals from more than 20 countries joined us for a recent informal webinar exploring future tensions and uncertainties arising from...
Topics: Future of Learning
Futures Thinking Now: Communicating the Future
Creating scenarios presents a challenge to communicate what could happen, not just what you think is most likely to happen...
Futures Thinking Now: Observing Interconnections
Systems thinking involves looking at an education system as if it were complex, cyclical and interconnected. We look at some...
Imagining Early Learning Alternatives
We asked, “How might stakeholders create dignified and self-affirming early learning experiences for all children?” Here's what KnowledgeWorks and Capita...
The Future of Learning in Retrospective
Those of us who care about the future of learning are fortunate to get to shape what learning looks like.
Topics: Future of Learning
Reexamining the Role of Caregiving in Society
How might stakeholders reexamine the role of caregiving in society, setting up systems, structures and narratives that reflect the true...
Topics: Early Childhood
Want to Help Children and Families Flourish? Try Shifting Perspective
To improve support for young children and their families, we need to broaden our viewpoints.
Topics: Early Childhood
Now, It’s 2020
The 2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning looked to a future time horizon. And that time is now.
Topics: Future of Learning
Navigating the Future Is Both Local and Systemic
How might we create opportunities for learners to bridge their lived experiences and identities with their learning?
Topics: Future of Learning
Pursuing Future Visions: Minding the Gaps
One of the most exciting parts of exploring the future of learning is identifying what we want from the future...
Topics: Future of Learning
Designing for Human-Centered Learning
Human-centered learning could be the next horizon of personalized learning.
Topics: Future of Learning
Will We Make the Future of Learning Equitable?
Some traditional structures and practices persist for good reasons, but others perpetuate inequities that have plagued our education systems and...
Museums Can Take on Learning Ecosystem Leadership
Community-based learning organizations like museums have a critical role to play in learning.