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How can today's schools be transformed so as to become environments of teaching and learning that makes individuals lifelong learners and prepare them for the 21st Century?

This volume of the Schooling for Tomorrow series goes beyond the OECD's own set of educational futures already published. It discusses how to develop scenarios and use them to address the challenges confronting policy and practice. Its chapters give both authoritative scholarly overviews and very practical lessons to be applied, including from Jay Ogilvy, a prominent exponent of scenario thinking for the business world, and school change expert Michael Fullan. This book is relevant for the many - policy makers, school leaders and teachers - concerned with the long-term future of education.

Education industry research provides the critical insights you'll need to gain competitive advantage and keep your business moving forward, regardless of the times.

"The Accessibility Imperative" is the first attempt made to present in one comprehensive volume the challenges and opportunities of implementing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in matters of accessibility to Information and Communication Technologies. The Convention at large - and more specifically its Article 9 - creates the first universal framework specifically addressing these issues which affect over 600,000,000 persons living with disabilities worldwide

CFP Doctoral Consortium

In the process of our recent research and planning for the Horizon Project, it became useful to combine the previous reports from 2004-2009 into a single PDF. The past reports are available individually for free under Creative Commons licensing from the Horizon web site and our NMC publications page), but as a single "boxed set" you can do keyword searches across all of the titles.

"Mobile media driving increased consumption. The increase in media use is driven in large part by ready access to mobile devices like cell phones and iPods. "

"The Sloan Consortium is an institutional and professional leadership organization dedicated to integrating online education into the mainstream of higher education, helping institutions and individual educators improve the quality, scale, and breadth of education. Membership in the Sloan Consortium provides knowledge, practice, community, and direction for educators. Originally funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Sloan-C is now a non-profit, member sustained organization."

"Auf den Lernenden und seine Lernmethode maßgeschneiderte Lehrinhalte über das Netz zu vermitteln klingt phänomenal. Bloß haben die Verkünder des E-Learnings nicht bedacht, dass Lernende nicht immer zu den "early adoptern" der IT-Szene zählen"

"IST at the service of a changing Europe by 2020: Learning from world views"

"Efforts towards developing cross-national visions of the future of technologies on a per- sector basis have so far been largely absent from the European Research Area (ERA) in general, and consequently form the European area for foresight in particular. "

"All the R&D outputs from our projects, eg context, objectives, methodology, results from trials, lessons learnt, development potential."