Community for education evolution.
Unesco, EU, YCombinator together with many more organizations & companies are concerned about mismatch of our education systems with rapidly changing job markets needs.
What, how, when do we learn?
We are the global community gathering experts & lifelong learners form different fields. Our common goal is to develop effective, inclusive learning solutions to be implemented in local communities and national programs.
12 types of experts
Current education and learning programs are created by multiple parties, such as schools, universities, e-platforms and global corporations. It’s very complex ecosystem. We have defines 10 types of experts who are shaping current education programs. They unique voices should be an important part of the conversation on future changes. As the community, we are building the communication platform for this dialog.
The experts:
Formal education:
1) Educators 2) Academics 3) Government
Technologies:
4) EdTech entrepreneurs 5) AI practitioners
Modern approach:
8) Lifelong learners 6) CPOs 10) employees 9) Young adults 10) Cognitive scientists
Equality approach:
11) nonprofits 12) social workers
Global idea meets local leaders
Lifelong learning evolution adjusting our education systems to the time of automation is the global idea. However implementation of the hight level idea needs to take in considerations local economy, culture and scale of industrialization. The evolution needs to be co-created by local communities and experts.
Our chapters are arrange locally, by outstanding Automation & Education leaders. Starting with Warsaw and Krakow, with next actions in Berlin, Amsterdam and Seattle.
Automation of work
Machine learning, cloud computing, as well as broader use of industrial robots, effects in drastic change on a job market. Many low-paid, low-skills, as well as simple office, white collar types of jobs are automated. Even if it’s not the very first time in humane history when it happens, though the scale and speed of the phenomenon is outstanding.
Currently, our education systems train people in taking repetitive, predictable, memorizable actions. This types of actions are becoming more and more often to be automated. If we want people to be prepare to have a job, we need to teach them creativity, flexibility, soft skills and how to cooperate with technologies.
We focusing on:
What to learn? | How to learn? | When to learn?
Open Resources
Organizations
The set of education, lifelong learning and the future of work oriented organizations that we keep record of. The set might be helpful if you are looking or a state of art programs, legislation practices, organization to cooperate with of volunteer for.
Resources
The list of videos, reports, articles, scientific papers, games and other data sources. You might consider this set useful, if you are looking for an inspiration, specific statistics, theories or conceptions on education, lifelong learning and the future of work.
Our Contribution
As the community of experts, we are discussing the current state of education, lifelong learning and the future of work. The debate is frame in projects workshops as well as other types of the collaborative actions. You can fallow the results on our Github account. All resources are on open licenses (CC-BY-SA, MIT). We hope that the collected ideas will be helpful for you and your organizations.