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Future trends and accelerating change

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Pre-active higher education leadership for a world in disruption

Last week, I had the privilege of presenting the closing keynote at the International Meeting on Educational Innovation and STEM Teaching hosted by Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires, Argentina. I shared my perspectives on the urgent need to rebuild higher education from the ground up and on the importance of pre active leadership in a world increasingly shaped by technological disruption, global complexity, and…

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Seconds beyond the inflection point

This article examines how generative AI and other technologies may automate large portions of people’s work. It considers what this inflection point means for education, skills, and human agency.

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Embracing the AI storm in learning

Manifesto 15, conceptualized in 2015, is a forward-thinking document outlining a vision for the future of education. It proposes a shift from traditional, rigid, and standardized educational models to flexible, learner-centered, and experience-driven paradigms that embrace change, encourage lifelong learning, and foster creativity.

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Cheating the death of imagination: Teaching the unknowable

The idea of a Technological Singularity has been discussed and debated intensely since the early 1990s. Coined by Vernor Vinge and popularized by Ray Kurzweil, the idea is that as technologies evolve, technologies improve, costs decrease; and, in turn, the process of technological evolution advances and speeds itself up, creating a J-curve of exponential, accelerating change.

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