Books
Build a Positive Rebellion: Create New Education Futures
A call to reclaim education through agency, creativity, and collective responsibility in a time of accelerating change.
Construir una Rebelión Positiva: Crear Nuevos Futuros para la Educación
Una invitación a crear futuros educativos más humanos, críticos y democráticos, con agencia, creatividad y responsabilidad colectiva.
Emerging education futures: Experiences and visions from the field
Contributors from six continents explore education futures, uncertainty, and changing human needs. Edited by John W. Moravec.
Knowmad Society
Learning, work, and value creation in a networked world shaped by creative, self-directed knowmads. Edited by John W. Moravec.
Aprendizaje invisible
Cristóbal Cobo and John W. Moravec explore learning beyond formal institutions and a new ecology of education. Written in Spanish.
Reports
White papers and field research on educational change, policy, and institutional capacity.
Unprepared: Education beyond 2030
This white paper examines the collapse of educational preparation under technological acceleration, ecological stress, labor disruption, demographic divergence, and institutional lag.
Education Futures
¿Qué sabemos sobre ciudadanía digital en México?
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.
La innovación educativa en Puebla: Las voces de los actores
This report documents perspectives on educational innovation in Puebla through the voices of stakeholders working across the education system.
¿Y ahora qué? Las TIC en la educación primaria: ¿Podemos construir una capacidad colectiva?
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.
Frameworks and manifestos
These public frameworks articulate the principles and commitments that guide Education Futures’ work.
Manifesto 25: A blueprint for reclaiming education
Manifesto 25 calls for education to move beyond inherited industrial assumptions and toward futures grounded in human agency, creativity, critical thought, and collective responsibility.
Manifesto 15: Evolving learning
Twelve principles for evolving education through learner agency, creativity, trust, and shared responsibility for the future.
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
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.
Learning Futures and Emerging Technologies
Transforming education systems in the knowmad paradigm
This chapter examines how education systems can be rethought through the knowmad paradigm, which foregrounds creativity, adaptability, self-direction, and networked value creation.
Futuristic Insights on Education Components, UNESCO / Regional Center for Educational Planning
Global trends in disruptive technological change
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.
On the Horizon
International education in the era of COVID-19: Making learning visible
This article reflects on international education during the COVID-19 disruption and connects crisis response to broader questions about visibility, participation, and learning design.
Sociální pedagogika | Social Education
Plan Ceibal 2020: Future scenarios for technology and education
This article examines future scenarios for technology and education in Uruguay through the case of Plan Ceibal.
European Journal of Futures Research
Higher Education 3.0: Knowmads create their own value
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.
Transformative Perspectives and Processes in Higher Education
Knowmad society: Borderless work and education
This edited special issue examines the relationship between changing forms of work and the futures of education, focusing on mobility, networks, and collaboration.
On the Horizon
Knowmad Society: The “new” work and education
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.
On the Horizon
Multidimensional facets of time in online learning
This article examines how time is experienced in online learning environments and offers a more nuanced account of temporal experience in digital education.
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
Systemic approaches to knowledge development and application
This article explores systemic approaches to how knowledge is created, developed, and applied within dynamic learning environments.
On the Horizon
A new paradigm of knowledge production in higher education
This article argues that higher education is moving toward a networked and distributed model of knowledge production.
On the Horizon
Technological applications of Leapfrog
This article examines how leapfrogging can function as a strategy for educational and social transformation.
Futures Research Quarterly
About this collection
Selected works by John W. Moravec and collaborators, spanning research, foresight, and practice. New publications and translated editions are added as they become available.