Education Futures celebrates its first five years of exploring new futures in human capital development with a timeline of the history of education from 1657-2045. This timeline provides not only a glimpse into modern education, but plots out a plausible future history for human capital development. The future history presented is intended to be edgy, [...]

By John Moravec (Updated December 20, 2009)
Education Futures celebrates its first five years of exploring new futures in human capital development with a timeline of the history of modern education. This timeline provides not only a glimpse into the past and present, but plots out a plausible future history for human capital development. The future [...]

This week, Education Futures presents a series on Education 3.0. For a little background on this new paradigm of human capital development, you may wish to start with this chart on Education 3.0, or view this presentation on SlideShare.

This is my take on the future of education. Just as there are various conceptualizations of [...]

About an hour ago, Maya Frost tweeted something utterly disturbing:
Not So Global: Share of US public elementary schools teaching foreign language classes drops by 40% in last decade http://tinyurl.com/ak4at9

From the linked article (via Public School Insights):
The share of U.S. public elementary schools teaching foreign language has fallen by almost 40% over the last decade. You [...]

David Brooks wrote an excellent op-ed piece in today’s New York Times. He states that individuals cannot be successful in a globalized world without building advanced capabilities to transform information into meaningful knowledge:
The globalization paradigm leads people to see economic development as a form of foreign policy, as a grand competition between nations and [...]

A few days ago, Minnesota Public Radio’s Gary Eichten shared a clip of Duke’s Vivek Wadhwa, speaking about his research on the effects of globalization in the United States:
After researching the impact of globalization on U.S. competitiveness in the tech industry, Vivek Wadhwa was surprised to see his findings contradict commonly-held ideas. He recently discussed [...]

Education Futures is back from winter break! Regular postings will now resume.

Photo by darkmatter
Looking forward to the rest of this year, here are my predictions of the big stories in the global education world for 2008:

Largely driven by the moderate success of OLPC, Linux will emerge as the platform of choice for K-12 technology leaders. [...]

USC’s Lloyd Armstrong posted a link to a draft article for New Directions in Higher Education (2007, Wiley Periodicals) where he argues that globalization has had a small effect on higher education. In his blog, he writes:
But why has higher education responded so slowly to the opportunities and challenges of globalization? I [...]

Here’s my presentation from this morning’s La Universidad en México en el año 2030: imaginando futuros conference at UNAM in Mexico City.

(Click here for the Spanish version.)
This paper introduces how the convergence of globalization, emergence of the knowledge society and accelerating change contribute to what might be best termed a New Paradigm of knowledge production [...]

Two articles related to the Singularity Summit have appeared on preparing for the Technological Singularity:
First, Jamais Cascio writes on a Metaverse Roadmap Overview:
In this work, along with my colleagues John Smart and Jerry Paffendorf, I sketch out four scenarios of how a combination of forces driving the development of immersive, richly connected information technologies may [...]