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.

Acknowledgement: The content of the book and the proposal are a part of EU Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliance VISION project EAC/A03/2018, application: 612537-EPP-1-2019-1-SI-EPPKA2-KA.This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.