Powering a Learning Society During an Age of Disruption

Powering a Learning Society During an Age of Disruption

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  • Author: Sungsup Ra
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 9811609837
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 322

This open access book presents contemporary perspectives on the role of a learning society from the lens of leading practitioners, experts from universities, governments, and industry leaders. The think pieces argue for a learning society as a major driver of change with far-reaching influence on learning to serve the needs of economies and societies. The book is a testimonial to the importance of ‘learning communities.’ It highlights the pivotal role that can be played by non-traditional actors such as city and urban planners, citizens, transport professionals, and technology companies. This collection seeks to contribute to the discourse on strengthening the fabric of a learning society crucial for future economic and social development, particularly in the aftermath of the coronavirus disease.


Promoting sustainable local economic development initiatives

Promoting sustainable local economic development initiatives

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  • Author: Marius Venter
  • Publisher: AOSIS
  • ISBN: 177995235X
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 262

This book endeavours to outline case studies that promote sustainable Local Economic Development (LED) initiatives. It is generally believed that local governments are the foot soldiers of LED. However, this seems to be a myth, as local governments in South Africa and elsewhere have not yet fulfilled this mandate and have been struggling for several years to implement LED initiatives. The distinctive merit of this book lies in the way it combines the South African context with the wider international development context in ways that there is a flow of information and ideas both ways. The book is an essential part of this sequence of ideas development and action at a critical time for strategic action directed at a sustainable future. It showcases case studies and responses to the impacts of globalisation as a bridge between urban/rural and institutional action and reveals avenues for local government leadership in communities, research, student engagement and wider interactions.


Augmented Education in the Global Age

Augmented Education in the Global Age

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  • Author: Daniel Araya
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1000870855
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 330

Augmented Education in the Global Age: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Learning and Work is an edited collection that explores the social impact of Artificial Intelligence over the coming decades, specifically how this emerging technology will transform and disrupt our contemporary institutions. Chapters in this book discuss the history of technological revolutions and consider the anxieties and social challenges of lost occupations, as well as the evolution of new industries overlapping robotics, biotechnology, space exploration, and clean energy. Chapter authors unpack the nature of augmented education, from revamping curriculum and personalizing education, to redesigning workplace learning for an algorithmic era. Ultimately the book discusses policy and planning for an augmented future, arguing that work and learning are undergoing a metamorphosis around creativity and innovation amid a new global era and the race against automating technologies. Bringing together expert perspectives from around the world, this exciting, informative collection of research and analysis helps educators, policymakers and analysts navigate the future of work and learning amid rapid and accelerating technological change. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.


Re-thinking Adult Education Research. Beyond the Pandemic

Re-thinking Adult Education Research. Beyond the Pandemic

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  • Author: Vanna Boffo
  • Publisher: Firenze University Press
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 286

This work is the result of the European INTALL Project, International and Comparative Studies for Students and Practitioners in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning (2018-2021). From early September 2018 to the end of August 2021, this project allowed us to build knowhow about some specific issues of adult education. The latest meeting of the INTALL project partners led to a conference about the role of Adult Education Research, during and after Covid-19, and the importance of re-thinking Lifelong and Lifewide Learning for the future. Based on four sections, Innovation and Future Competences in Adult Education Research, Professionalisation in Adult Education, Sustainability, Inclusion and Wellbeing: Topics for Adult Society and Smart Cities and Learning and Teaching in Higher Education in Post-Pandemic Time: A Digital Transformation, the volume represents an opportunity to foster a debate on key issues in the field of Adult Learning and Education across Europe.


Digital Futures for Learning

Digital Futures for Learning

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  • Author: Jen Ross
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1000770230
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 235

Digital Futures for Learning offers a methodological and pedagogical way forward for researchers and educators who want to work imaginatively with "what’s next" in higher education and informal learning. Today’s debates around technological transformations of social, cultural and educational spaces and practices need to be informed by a more critical understanding of how visions of the future of learning are made and used, and how they come to be seen as desirable, inevitable or impossible. Integrating innovative methods, key research findings, engaging theories and creative pedagogies across multiple disciplines, this book argues for and explores speculative approaches to researching and analysing post-compulsory and informal learning futures – where we are, where we might go and how to get there.


Online Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Online Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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  • Author: Asian Development Bank
  • Publisher: Asian Development Bank
  • ISBN: 929270561X
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 142

This report analyzes the online learning experiences of higher education students in six Asian countries during the pandemic to illustrate how to provide technical and learning support, narrow the digital divide, and direct future policy. Drawing on surveys from Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, and Viet Nam, the report touches on areas including internet availability, student satisfaction, and levels of student-teacher interaction. Providing country breakdowns, it considers funding for online education, underscores the challenges for low-income students, and sets out how to fill the skills and training gap to offer equal access to better education.


The Political Economy of Education in South Asia

The Political Economy of Education in South Asia

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  • Author: John Richards
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press
  • ISBN: 148752255X
  • Category : Education and state
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 256

This book offers a comprehensive and accessible treatment of recent academic and policy studies of basic education in South Asia.


Reimagine Tech-Inclusive Education

Reimagine Tech-Inclusive Education

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  • Author: Asian Development Bank
  • Publisher: Asian Development Bank
  • ISBN: 929270186X
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 178

As fast-evolving education technology (EdTech) revolutionizes learning, this report examines the evidence for effective digital learning, the key interventions and innovations in education technology, and how best to implement effective digital transformation initiatives in the education sector. The study provides some key ADB frameworks to guide through the digital transformation process including the “Quality, Effectiveness, Scalability, and Affordability" tool kit for identifying and selecting EdTech interventions, the Digital Education Readiness Framework to holistically assess a country’s digital education readiness situation, and ways to improve digital capacity in ADB developing member countries through a systemic, staged, and sustainable planning and implementation road map process.


Rethinking Education in the Context of Post-Pandemic South Asia

Rethinking Education in the Context of Post-Pandemic South Asia

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  • Author: Uma Pradhan
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1000885860
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 244

This edited volume offers new analytical and methodological approaches to the study of education in the post-pandemic educational context, through case studies from countries in South Asia such as Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Crossing disciplinary and national boundaries to advance collaborative knowledge production in South Asian education, the book explores how different colonial legacies, religious orientations, and positions in the global economy are played out in regional education systems. In doing so, this volume focuses on the educational challenges faced by the region to better understand South Asian society and the existing societal inequalities in the wake of COVID-19. The book highlights how the pandemic invites a re-thinking of current ways of approaching educational research in hybrid forms, and also opens up new areas of research ranging from pedagogical innovations to the well-being of teachers and students. Offering interdisciplinary perspectives on education in this unique context, this timely book will be highly relevant to students, researchers, and academics in the fields of international and comparative education, South Asian studies, teacher education, and education policy and politics.


Creating the University of the Future

Creating the University of the Future

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  • Author: Ulf-Daniel Ehlers
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3658429488
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 634