Books, reports, and other publications from Education Futures explore how learning, work, technology, and human development are being reshaped by a world in motion.
These publications bring together research, foresight, and practical reflection to challenge inherited assumptions about education and to imagine new futures for learners, educators, and institutions. Some volumes are edited collections. Others are direct interventions in debates about schooling, creativity, technology, and social change. Together, they form a body of work committed to asking what education is for, whom it serves, and what it might yet become.
This collection includes books authored and edited by John W. Moravec, along with collaborative works that have helped shape broader conversations around knowmads, invisible learning, and the future of education.
Books
Build a Positive Rebellion: Create New Education Futures
Drawing on the spirit of Manifesto 25, this work invites educators, learners, and institutions to imagine and build new education futures grounded in agency, creativity, critical thought, and collective responsibility. It is both a provocation and an invitation to act.
Learn more about the English edition.
Construir una Rebelión Positiva: Crear Nuevos Futuros para la Educación
Más que una traducción, esta edición amplía el alcance de una conversación urgente sobre el sentido de la educación en tiempos de cambio acelerado, crisis institucional y nuevas posibilidades de acción colectiva.
Más información sobre la edición en español.
Emerging education futures: Experiences and visions from the field
The book offers a snapshot of emerging thinking about how learning, institutions, and policy can respond to rapidly changing social realities. It is designed to provoke new conversations and support educators and decision-makers who are trying to move beyond inherited models of schooling.
Knowmad Society
The book argues that as knowledge work becomes less tied to fixed tasks and places, education must also change. Schools and other learning environments can no longer prepare people for stable industrial roles alone. They must help learners develop the capacity to create value, navigate complexity, and design their own futures.
Also available in Russian and German. View the book page.
Aprendizaje invisible
The work examines current theories, international experiences, and technological developments that point toward more sustainable forms of innovation in education. It invites readers to look beyond institutional boundaries and recognize the many ways learning already occurs across visible and invisible spaces.
Research, reports, and selected publications from Education Futures.
Education Futures publishes research reports, policy analyses, conceptual frameworks, and scholarly contributions that examine how education systems respond to technological change, social transformation, and emerging human development needs. These works connect research, foresight, and practice to help educators, policymakers, and institutions think more clearly about the futures they are building.
This collection includes commissioned studies, field-based reports, public frameworks, and selected academic publications. Together, they document practical experiences, frame key questions, and offer analysis for those working to rethink learning, innovation, and institutional change.
Frameworks and major initiatives
These works define major strands of the Education Futures research and publishing agenda.
Manifesto 25 (2025)
Manifesto 25 is a public intervention and framework for reclaiming education in a time of institutional stagnation, democratic strain, and accelerating change. It brings together a set of propositions that challenge inherited assumptions about schooling and call for new education futures grounded in agency, creativity, responsibility, and social imagination.
This work serves as both a statement of principles and a point of departure for broader research, writing, and action.
GEFRI: Global Education Futures Readiness Index (2025–present)
GEFRI is a research initiative that examines how countries are positioned to respond to emerging educational, technological, and human development challenges. The index brings together comparative indicators and public analysis to explore readiness for building new education futures.
Visit the GEFRI project site or explore related articles and commentary.
Global trends in disruptive technological change: Social and policy implications for education (2023)
This publication examines how disruptive technological change is reshaping social life, labor, and educational policy. It considers the implications of accelerating change for schools, learning systems, and public decision-making, and argues that education must move beyond reactive adaptation toward futures-oriented transformation.
Published in On the Horizon. Also available in Spanish.
Research reports
These field-based reports document educational conditions, stakeholder perspectives, and system-level challenges in specific contexts.
¿Qué sabemos sobre ciudadanía digital en México? (2018)
This Spanish-language research report examines the state of digital citizenship in Mexico and considers how educational systems, policies, and social conditions shape citizens’ capacities to participate critically and responsibly in digital environments. The report synthesizes evidence and identifies challenges and opportunities for educators, institutions, and policymakers.
Research report in Spanish.
La innovación educativa en Puebla: Las voces de los actores (2018)
This report documents perspectives on educational innovation in Puebla through the voices of stakeholders working across the education system. It highlights how actors understand change, what barriers they face, and what conditions may enable more meaningful and sustainable innovation in practice.
Research report in Spanish.
¿Y ahora qué? Las TIC en la educación primaria: ¿Podemos construir una capacidad colectiva? (2009)
This report explores the integration of information and communication technologies in primary education and asks whether schools and systems can move beyond isolated implementation toward collective capacity building. The work examines how technological adoption relates to institutional learning, professional practice, and shared educational purpose.
Research report in Spanish.
Scholarly publications
These journal articles, chapters, and edited issues extend Education Futures work into academic and research contexts.
Beyond the digital enclosure: AI, coloniality, and the pursuit of educational sovereignty (2026)
This conceptual paper aims to examine the rapid adoption of generative AI in public education, arguing that current “readiness” frameworks can mask a transfer of authority from public institutions to private platform firms. It provides a structural framework for understanding digital enclosure, coloniality and educational sovereignty in AI-mediated educational settings.
Published in Learning Futures and Emerging Technologies.
Transforming education systems in the knowmad paradigm (2025)
This chapter examines how education systems can be rethought through the knowmad paradigm, which foregrounds creativity, adaptability, self-direction, and networked value creation. It considers how systemic transformation becomes possible when institutions move beyond industrial-age assumptions about learning, work, and human development.
Chapter in Futuristic Insights on Education Components, UNESCO / Regional Center for Educational Planning.
Global trends in disruptive technological change (2023)
The purpose of this study is to identify global trends in disruptive technological change and map the social and policy implications, particularly as they relate to the educational ecosystem and main stakeholders across all levels of education.
Published in On the Horizon. Also available in Spanish.
International education in the era of COVID-19: Making learning visible (2020)
This article reflects on international education during the COVID-19 disruption and connects crisis response to broader questions about visibility, participation, and learning design.
Published in Sociální pedagogika | Social Education.
Plan Ceibal 2020: Future scenarios for technology and education (2018)
This article examines future scenarios for technology and education in Uruguay through the case of Plan Ceibal. It uses scenario-based thinking to consider how educational systems can prepare for uncertainty, respond to changing technological conditions, and make more deliberate choices about long-term development.
Published in the European Journal of Futures Research.
Higher Education 3.0: Knowmads create their own value (2015)
This book chapter argues that higher education must respond to the emergence of knowmads and explores how institutions can support learners in developing the capacities needed to contribute in fluid and uncertain environments.
Chapter in Transformative Perspectives and Processes in Higher Education.
Knowmad society: Borderless work and education (2013)
This edited special issue examines the relationship between changing forms of work and the futures of education, focusing on mobility, networks, and collaboration.
Edited special issue of On the Horizon.
Knowmad Society: The “new” work and education (2013)
This article develops the argument that the rise of knowmads is reshaping both work and education and requires new approaches to learning and value creation.
Published in On the Horizon.
Multidimensional facets of time in online learning (2011)
This article examines how time is experienced in online learning environments and offers a more nuanced account of temporal experience in digital education.
Published in the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning.
Systemic approaches to knowledge development and application (2011)
This article explores systemic approaches to how knowledge is created, developed, and applied within dynamic learning environments.
Published in On the Horizon.
A new paradigm of knowledge production in higher education (2008)
This article argues that higher education is moving toward a networked and distributed model of knowledge production.
Published in On the Horizon.
Technological applications of Leapfrog (2008)
This article examines how leapfrogging can function as a strategy for educational and social transformation.
Published in Futures Research Quarterly.
Selected briefs and commentary
These public-facing analyses connect ongoing research to current debates about educational futures, innovation, and policy.
GEFRI articles and commentary (2025–present)
This collection gathers public-facing analysis connected to the Global Education Futures Readiness Index.
Explore the full GEFRI topic archive.
About this collection
These books, research reports, journal articles, edited issues, conceptual frameworks, and public analyses reflect Education Futures’ long-standing commitment to educational transformation. Across different formats, languages, and contexts, they examine how education can respond to technological change, social transformation, complexity, creativity, and the need for greater human agency.
This collection will continue to grow as new books, editions, reports, papers, and other publications are released.