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Opening Education reports

Futurelab’s ‘blue skies’ series - intended to open up areas for debate, to provoke, challenge and stimulate new visions for education.

  • Early years reportPerspectives on early years and digital technologies

    November 2008

    This publication presents early work from Futurelab's PhD studentship network, set up to explore questions around the role of digital technologies in young children’s learning.

  • Designing for social justiceDesigning for social justice: people, technology, learning

    October 2008

    An introduction to the concept of social justice and practices of user-centred design, looking at how theories for changing the world marry up with methods to implement these changes.

  • 2020 and beyond2020 and beyond

    June 2007

    This report explores predictions about developments in digital technologies over the next 13 years, examines the implications for education, sets out some future scenarios and suggests how we might harness the changes.

  • Beyond the digital divideBeyond the digital divide

    June 2007

    There is overwhelming evidence that as ICT becomes part of everyday life the divisions in its use are strengthening rather than diminishing. This report explores why the digital divide remains a complex social problem.

  • Learning networks reportTowards new learning networks

    December 2006

    What should the educational landscape of the future look like? Where, and with whom, should learning happen? This report argues for a move towards the network logic of the learning community.

  • Re-imagining learning spaces reportWhat if...? Re-imagining learning spaces

    October 2006

    We are currently witnessing a massive investment in the design and build of new schools to equip the UK education system for the 21st century. But how much of this effort has been inspired by an equally wide-reaching educational vision?

  • Social software and learningSocial software and learning

    July 2006

    This report explores the relationship between the emergence of social software and the personalisation of education, suggesting that there is a changing view of what education is for, with a need for young people to develop skills for the evolving global knowledge economy.

  • The potential of open source approaches for educationThe potential of open source approaches for education

    May 2006

    Open source is an example of peer-production driven by collaborative modes of interaction and knowledge exchange. This paper discusses some of the ways in which these approaches might be applied in educational contexts.

  • Personalisation and digital technologiesPersonalisation and digital technologies

    November 2005

    This report sets out some of the challenges and opportunities that might form the basis for dialogue about personalisation, and the role of digital resources in enabling and shaping this arena. It also includes a 'Learner’s Charter' for a personalised learning environment.