ICT and Initial Teacher Education - Working Paper

27-Sep-2011

This working paper gives an overview of the national policies that exist in the field of ICT and initial teacher education. Information on this topic was initially gathered via a survey, which was conducted as part of the analytical strand of the OECD study of the New Millennium Learners project in CERI entitled "ICT and Initial Teacher Education". 

Innovative Workplaces: Making Better Use of Skills within Organisations

14-Dec-2010

This book shows how interaction within organisations, as well as individual and organisational learning and training, are important for innovation. It will interest policy makers in education, employment and innovation as well as business leaders and academics.

Improving Health and Social Cohesion through Education

08-Oct-2010

This report addresses challenges in assessing the social outcomes of learning by providing a synthesis of the existing evidence, original data analyses and policy discussions.

Inspired by Technology, Driven by Pedagogy: A Systemic Approach to Technology-Based School Innovations

08-Oct-2010

This report highlights key issues to facilitate understanding of how a systemic approach to technology-based school innovations can contribute to quality education for all while promoting a more equal and effective education system.

The Nature of Learning: Using Research to Inspire Practice

08-Oct-2010

What do we know about how people learn? How do young people’s motivations and emotions influence their learning? What does research show to be the benefits of group work, formative assessments, technology applications, or project-based learning and when are they most effective? 

New report: Social Capital, Human Capital and Health: What is the Evidence?

30-Jul-2010

How best can planners and policy makers use research results on social capital, education and health to better inform policymaking? Should social capital be fostered at the community level, or through incentives to individuals? Does social capital improve community health,? What lessons can be learned?

Read more: Social Outcomes of Learning

Innovating education

12-Mar-2009

A professor of a well-known business school in Spain once remarked that the one thing people forget to do in a crisis is “think”. He could have added “think innovatively”. For 40 years, that is precisely what OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) has been doing: helping educators and policymakers think and so better tackle challenges and prepare for the future.
 - OECD Observer -

Innovating to Learn, Learning to Innovate

13-Nov-2008

OECD economies have experienced the transformation from their traditional industrial base to the knowledge era, in which learning and innovation are central. Yet, many of today's schools have not caught up: they continue to operate as they did in the earlier decades of the 20th century. How can learning within and outside schools be reconfigured in environments that foster the deeper knowledge and skills so crucial in the 21st century?

Schooling for Tomorrow: Final International Conference

28-Oct-2008

This conference took stock of the lessons learned over the decade of "Schooling for Tomorrow" and looked ahead through the major trends impacting on the future. The conference was also an opportunity to learn about the Finnish experience with futures thinking in education complemented by visits to 21st century learning environments in and around Helsinki.

1-to-1 Computing in Education: Current Practices, International Comparative Research Evidence and Policy Implications (22-24 February 2010 - Vienna, Austria)

from 22-Feb-2010 to 24-Feb-2010

This international meeting was hosted by the Austrian Ministry of Education and jointly organised by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, and the World Bank (WB).  More info at www.bildung.at/nml-conference2010

International Expert Meeting on “The school of the future, today – a systemic approach to technology-based school innovations"

from 18-Nov-2009 to 20-Nov-2009

An International Expert Meeting on “The school of the future, today – a systemic approach to technology-based school innovations” was held in Santa Catarina (Brazil) conjointly with the Secretariat for Education of the State of Santa Catarina and the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation on 18-20 November 2009. (Website in Portuguese)

International Conference on the New Millennium Learners

from 21-Sep-2009 to 23-Sep-2009

This International Conference jointly organised by the OECD and the Flemish Ministry of Education took place at the Flemish Ministry of Education & Training in Brussels.

Higher Education to 2030: What Futures for Quality Access?

It is crucial to start imagining today the possible – as well as the desirable – roles for higher education in tomorrow’s societies. The OECD/France conference Higher Education to 2030 was held on 8 and 9 December 2008 in Paris with a view to present and discuss possible and desirable futures for higher education.

Teacher Education for Diversity Survey

from 17-Nov-2008 to 17-Dec-2008

The survey provides a voice to teachers, student teachers, and teacher educators in 30 countries and is an opportunity to influence education policy and programmes. It asks about your preparation for diversity in the classroom, your biggest challenges, and what you think are the most effective strategies.

Trends Shaping Education

Education is influenced by the world we live in. The new OECD book "Trends Shaping Education" looks at specific impacts on schooling of things happening elsewhere in our lives, from climate change and the growth of the Internet to changing lifestyles and family structures. Does the diversification of family forms mean a changing balance of responsibilities between the school and the home? And what is the impact on schooling of other phenomena, from the rise of obesity to the spread of mobile phones?

CERI Expert Meeting: Return to Gender: Gender, ICT and Education

from 02-Jun-2008 to 03-Jun-2008

As part of the New Millennium Learners Project (NML), the OECD's Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI), together with the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research organised an Expert Meeting on Gender, ICT and Education on 2-3 June in Oslo, Norway.

OECD-France Seminar - The labour market orientation of tertiary education in France and in OECD countries: Assessment and prospects

from 14-Feb-2007 to 15-Feb-2007

This seminar proposes to take stock of the labour market orientation of tertiary education in France and in OECD countries.

International Japan/OECD Seminar on “Futures Thinking for Education: Policy, Leadership and the Teaching Profession”

from 06-Nov-2006 to 08-Oct-2006

This Seminar is in the core CERI work on futures thinking and the Schooling for Tomorrow project. The Seminar will explore and develop as the over-arching seminar theme the connections between futures thinking, on the one hand, and governance, policy formulation and decision-making in education, on the other.

Orthographes transparentes vs non-transparentes et apprentissage de la lecture : un atelier OCDE

from 29-Sep-2005 to 30-Sep-2005

Cet atelier été réservé aux experts invités à St John’s College, Cambridge, les 29 et 30 septembre 2005. Il été co-organisé par le Centre des Neurosciences en Éducation de l’Université de Cambridge.