Global Education Futures Information

Global Education Futures (GEF) is an international collaborative platform that brings pioneers of global education to discuss and implement the necessary transformations of educational ecosystems for the thrivable future. Education worldwide is at the brink of transformation forced by wave of new technologies and powerful social shifts. The emerging forms are learner-centered creative collaborative communities that replace ‘industrial’ education hierarchies of the past. Yet pathways to this future are unclear. Our initiative will try to answer some of these challenges. As the first step we will hold 3 GEF Forums in a participatory format this year, right at the hearts of learning communities around the globe. Our Forums are a grass-root initiative to draft such pathways and catalyze systemic innovations to help education meet the challenges of the 21-century. Our Forums are collaborative unconferences where the participants co-own the agenda and the outcome. We attract high-quality participants who jointly map out the future of education and propose actionable initiatives through the participatory process of Rapid Foresight. We believe that the shift towards new models of education can only be brought about by communities that learn together and cooperate to achieve their shared vision. First session will take place in California on 1-3 April 2015, at Menlo Park, in conjunction with Global Technology Symposeum (www.globaltechsymposium.com) Come and join our collective conversarion!