Envisioning the Future of Learning for Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Successful entrepreneurs and innovators are skilled at understanding the next wave of trends. But how can teachers and trainers stay current and address the dynamic opportunities of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship (CIE) teaching and training? This book outlines the work and findings of the Erasmus+ VISION research project into the future of education for CIE. The VISION team was comprised of 14 partners including universities, companies and research institutions who conducted an extensive research project over a two-year period (2020-2021).

The VISION partners gained insights from multiple experts around the world through more than 130 interviews and 9 workshops on the future shifts that impact a number of areas including: the future of work, digitalisation, social innovation and creative learning. These have been synthesised, shared, and refined to provide a view of how the training of CIE will evolve over the next decade.

This book focuses on four major findings from the VISION project:

• Learning becomes more of an immersive, experimental experience. It takes place in more creative spaces, focuses on the big challenges and is supported by new tech. The impact of learning within the ‘real-world’ is prioritised and amplified.
• Learning is redesigned to put the student, not the system, more at the centre. Better, personalised, unbundled learning includes more peer-to-peer and hybrid experiences. Assessing impact at the individual level from multiple learning sources is key.
• There is a rise in on the job education and learning by doing as part of life-long upskilling. Much of this occurs in a digital context with innovative financing. Project-based learning, reskilling and upskilling are at the fore.
• Teachers cease to be content-sources as they become more flexible, act as coaches and mentors and increasingly support the development of both hard and soft skills. New teacher competencies are prioritised with a wider supporting toolkit.

Envisioning the Future of Learning for Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship will provide invaluable insights into the future of education in CIE.

K. Papageorgiou, ESADE, Spain; O. Kokshagina, RMIT, Australia

Kyriaki Papageorgiou has a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology, with an emphasis on Science and Technology Studies, from the University of California, Irvine.

Her current research draws on anthropological theories and ethnographic methods to critically examine social, technological and business innovation side-by-side. She is particularly interested in the discourses and practices of innovation in tackling big societal challenges, and the emergent role of robotics and AI in transforming work and our daily lives.

As the Director of Research at Fusion Point, an initiative between ESADE, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and Istituto Europeo di Design (IED), Kyriaki leads a collaborative research program on prototyping the future of education that is challenge-driven, multidisciplinary, experiential, experimental, socially relevant and impactful.