Effectively evaluating and rewarding teachers is vital for achieving high performance in school education

04-Dec-2009

Effectively evaluating and rewarding teachers is vital for achiving high performance in school education.

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.
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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.

Cross-border higher education is emerging to become a fascinating but very complex phenomenon

28-Jan-2008

The last two decades have seen a significant growth in the mobility of higher education programmes and providers through physical and virtual modes of delivery. This presents many new opportunities, but also a certain number of challenges, as shows the new report "Cross-border Tertiary Education: A Way towards Capacity Development", published jointly by OECD/CERI and the World Bank. 

OECD brain study suggests new avenues for teaching

02-Jul-2007

The brain never loses its capacity to learn, according to a new publication from the OECD.  Contrary to the myth that “everything important about the brain is decided by the age of three,” Understanding the Brain: The Birth of a Learning Science suggests not only that learning never stops - especially if actively pursued - but that it physically transforms the brain.

Open Educational Resources bring new opportunities, challenges: OECD

01-Jun-2007

The burgeoning Open Educational Resources (OER) movement is bringing higher education resources within reach of growing numbers of potential users around the world, but education authorities will soon have to grapple with new challenges such as copyright issues and the sustainability of business models, according to a new OECD study.

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” 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)

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.

Global Forum on Education - The Challenges for Education in a Global Economy

from 24-Oct-2005 to 25-Oct-2005

The first Forum on the theme of The Challenges for Education in a Global Economy, co-hosted with the Chilean Ministry of Education, was held in Santiago on 24-25 October 2005. This event drew on the networks of education officials and experts established since 1991 through the Directorate for Education’s Programme for Co-operation with non OECD Economies.

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.