Reports and papers

Manifesto 25

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.

Global trends in disruptive technological change: Social and policy implications for education

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.

¿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. 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

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.

Plan Ceibal 2020: Future scenarios for technology and education, the case of the Uruguayan public education system

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

This book chapter argues that higher education must respond to the emergence of knowmads: people who create value through mobility, creativity, networks, and self-direction. It explores how institutions can move beyond industrial assumptions and 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

This edited special issue examines the relationship between changing forms of work and the futures of education. The contributions explore how mobility, networks, creativity, and borderless collaboration challenge traditional assumptions about learning, labor, and institutional design.

Edited special issue of On the Horizon.

Pointillist, cyclical, and overlapping: Multidimensional facets of time in online learning

This article examines how time is experienced in online learning environments and argues that digital learning cannot be understood through simple linear models of instructional pacing. It offers a more nuanced account of temporal experience in online education and contributes to broader thinking about flexibility, participation, and learning design.

Published in the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning.