Future of Learning
Future of Learning
Improving opportunities for participation in the life
The term Future of Learning refers to a modern concept of learning that is directed toward the future. This concept became necessary because conventional learning and knowledge acquisition ideas are no longer sufficient to answer open questions in our dynamic world.
The starting thesis is that competencies – along with knowledge – play an increasingly important role in modern societies: In complex, dynamic situations that are often difficult to manage, knowledge is often not enough; instead, competencies are needed to be able to act effectively and creatively. Therefore, the educational offers would have to do justice to these changed framework conditions and enable people to continuously build up and expand their competencies in a self-organized and personalized way in the course of their lives.
Aspects of Future of Learning
Characteristics for the Future of Learning are the change from a didactic of instruction to a didactic of enabling, aspects such as individuality and personal responsibility of the learners, self-organized planning and implementation of personalized learning processes and digital technologies, and networking. The educational goal is to develop creative, physical, and mental action skills and self-organized mastery of challenges. The gain in education is understood as a gain in competencies with which individuals can expand their ability to act and improve their chances of participating in life.
