Back to the Future of Education
OECD,
May 25, 2021
This is a report issued earlier this year offering four scenarios describing possible futures of learning. There is an open access version but it's quite hard to find on the web site; here's the direct link, and note that you have to click on the table of contents to the left to view the different sections. It's OECD so of course the full privatization of education is on the table, but at least other possibilities are considered. Here are the four scenarios:
- Schooling extended: an intensification of the current front-end, massive schooling model
- Education outsourced: an outsourcing of schooling and resulting surge of learning markets
- Schools as learning hubs: a re-purposing of schooling and transformation of schools
- Learn-as-you-go: the end of school-based learning and demise of schooling.
As Tom Worthington says, "We are likely to see a little of all of these and a lot of some." He also suggests that "school campuses will remain much as they are for younger students, while those for older students will become more like learning hubs."
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