Posts Tagged ‘ Europe ’

Last week in brief: BIG things brewing

11/13/2011
Crossing the Tipping Point

A lot has happened in the past week, and I feel that bits and pieces are coming together to form a huge break from the mainstream in human capital development in the Netherlands. In brief: On Monday, I visited TEDxDelft at TU Delft. The day was very well organized and included a selection of talks [...]


Wanted: 30 Knowmads

11/3/2009

Remember Knowmads in Society 3.0? Something amazing is brewing in Europe. And, they’re looking for thirty candidates from around the world. Knowmads is a new school for the world of tomorrow, starting in January 2010 in The Netherlands. After two years of learning with and from KaosPilots (International School for New Business Design and Social [...]


Thank you, Europe!

6/2/2009

(Photo by Sebastiaan ter Berg) I just returned from my talks at the Creative Company Conference, ITSMF Academy, and the University of Oxford. The themes of each presentation were different, but I was able to work from a common subset of slides that built from ideas shared in the Designing Education 3.0 series at Education [...]


2020 skills forecast for the European Union

8/8/2008

Cedefop, the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, supplied a comprehensive assessment of Europe’s skills requirements up to 2020 to the European Council.  In the study, they identified six employment trends leading to the year 2020 horizon: Services sector still expanding: Europe continues to shift away from manufacturing and agricultural industries Around 20 [...]


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Review: 21st Century Skills (by Bernie Trilling and Charles Fadel)

Some ten years into the 21st century, I find it amazing that we are still having conversations on what skills are necessary to succeed in this new century. We’ve explored some ideas of what skills are relevant before (see this, this, this, and this, for example), and there appears to be a general consensus that there are needs for skills development in creativity, innovation, smart use of ICTs, and social leadership.


Bill Gates on keeping America competitive

An editorial by Bill Gates appears in today’s Washington Post. He argues that if the U.S. continues to fail to produce the skilled talent it needs to succeed in an innovation economy, the country should import knowledge and innovation workers: To remain competitive in the global economy, we must build on the success of such [...]


Top ten global trends that force us to rethink education

We open our ten days of top ten lists with a list of global trends that force us to rethink education. What does the future hold for today’s students in the 21st Century? In a future driven by globalization, knowledge, innovation, and accelerating change, education will need to be re-missioned to meet new needs: A [...]


The Memo v3.0: Building a “Leapfrog” University

Date:      04 April 2006 To:          All Participants From:     Arthur Harkins and John Moravec Subject: Building a “Leapfrog” University: Renovating Undergraduate Education (Version 3.0) Preface to Version 3.0 A New Paradigm founded on the convergence of globalization, rise of the knowledge society and accelerating change is emerging. The first country to adopt the New Paradigm, bolster it [...]


PC Advisor: Europe’s most innovative country

PC Advisor‘s Peter Sayer writes that Malta might be Europe’s most innovative country if its proportion of high technology export revenue is taken into consideration: Malta, [...] a member of the EU since May 2004, derives a greater proportion of its export revenue from high technology than any other European country, according to figures from [...]


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