More than hundred Finnish educators and education experts attended FinNode Future Session in which the findings of the participating countries, USA, China, India, Russia and Japan were discussed. The country teams had been asked to discuss three major topics: platforms, infrastructure and ecosystem; skills development and competency building and teacher training.
In all the five countries there are reforms ongoing and many of the pain points have been identified, whether in K-12, higher education or vocational training. Technology is seen as an enabler and big hopes are set in the impact of digitalisation of educational material, online learning, mobile learning, content creation. Adult education and vocational educational both in reskilling and upskilling is a common trend - shared by an ageing population like Japan and by India, where 50 per cent of the population is under 25 of years and where the government has the challenging task to have 350 million skilled and semi-skilled people to be trained by 2025.- Finnish expertise in vocational training and the widely inculcated life long learning concept would be in high demand! Industry-academia collaborations and feasible operational models are another big area of opportunity.
Another common trend is that the public sector alone is not able to provide funding for the education and learning sector and private participation and funding is necessary. New business models are being developed and in particular emerging markets like India, Russia and China need also foreign expertise. In the USA venture capitalist investors are already much present in particular in the edu tech companies and this phenomena is expected to spread. Silicon Valley for instance has lots of Indian origin tech companies and it remains to be seen, to what extent the "made in USA" services and business models will spill over to India!
Online, mobile learning, asyncronic learning, blended learning, informal learning and how to build creditation around it - again trends present in every country, calling for more solutions and scalable business models.
The strong Finnish education brand is generally very well known among the educators, with the exception of India, where Finland is not yet known in this space. Teacher education would clearly offer opportunities in all the countries, whether in the teacher education per se but also in areas like students' career counselling, curricula design and personalised learning programmes.
From Russia we also had an interesting case study "Skolkovo Open University", a new format of university (http://www.skolkovo.ru/public/en/)
The Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO is an innovative international institution of the future. It is focused on developing the unique leadership and communicative skills required for the new type of manager who will be in demand in the 21st century - the age of human resources. In providing practical knowledge, SKOLKOVO trains business leaders who will apply their professional skills in dynamically developing markets; leaders who will set up and run their own businesses and lead the development of the Russian economy.
From the group discussions in the various locations in Finland we collected the following points:
- Main vision for Finland's future success should be in vocational adult learning, with focus on emerging countries
- Business model: Finland should focus on a mixture of technology and content by creating packages and utilising platforms like Future Learning Finland
- To better understand how to create business models which would join together companies, educators and researchers: Finland needs "holistic attack" with strong industry presence
- Within 10 years from now, books will not be used but all the content will be digital and there will be more focus on content - how to capitalise on that?
- Finland needs to partner up with global big players in order to create scalability and co-creation
- Finland as a role model in teacher education: what learnings can we take in our experience for building export products
- Finland needs a national strategy which identifies the opportunities and shares them - can Future Learning Finland be the platform?
- Finland should be smart enought to concentrate on what she is good at and build on that:
tailored product and service portfolio needed - more deeper understanding of global needs is required. Revenue models are important!
- We have to be able to create a vision what will sell in 10 years time: by 2020 edu services should be the cornerstone of Finland's success
- We should learn to collaborate more inside Finland and commit to long term planning and we should be ready to take more risks
- Innovative business models needed: future teacher training schools, mentoring system, science workshops or festivals: creating science with corporate world and create space in schools for testing and practising the ideas
- Business element is needed in the learning and education - private and public need to join hands
- Building a Finnish teacher education centre model and selling it globally
- Finland is badly behind in online, mobile and e-learning - are we aware of this?
- to initiate a value chain creation (where marketing and sales are fundamental), identify sufficient funding and human resources, get commitment from research bodies and edu institution and this exercise will lead into productisation and into a robust portfolio
- Concrete pilot projects are needed as "test labs", eg in India create a collaboration with an NGO: when education starts making an impact on the livelihood, its value is perceived much better than just being persuaded to send one's kids to school!
- Finland should become a world leader in tailormade training services - we will need new structures and a completely new mindset as the current model is not flying - we should become truly solid professionals in the world's eyes and have a large pool of top experts speaking on the global arenas and getting paid for it!
- the momentum is now - there are other countries, also China, which are on the same mission
- the game is being played outside Finland - we need more Finnish presence like Team Finland in the global markets
In all the five countries there are reforms ongoing and many of the pain points have been identified, whether in K-12, higher education or vocational training. Technology is seen as an enabler and big hopes are set in the impact of digitalisation of educational material, online learning, mobile learning, content creation. Adult education and vocational educational both in reskilling and upskilling is a common trend - shared by an ageing population like Japan and by India, where 50 per cent of the population is under 25 of years and where the government has the challenging task to have 350 million skilled and semi-skilled people to be trained by 2025.- Finnish expertise in vocational training and the widely inculcated life long learning concept would be in high demand! Industry-academia collaborations and feasible operational models are another big area of opportunity.
Another common trend is that the public sector alone is not able to provide funding for the education and learning sector and private participation and funding is necessary. New business models are being developed and in particular emerging markets like India, Russia and China need also foreign expertise. In the USA venture capitalist investors are already much present in particular in the edu tech companies and this phenomena is expected to spread. Silicon Valley for instance has lots of Indian origin tech companies and it remains to be seen, to what extent the "made in USA" services and business models will spill over to India!
Online, mobile learning, asyncronic learning, blended learning, informal learning and how to build creditation around it - again trends present in every country, calling for more solutions and scalable business models.
The strong Finnish education brand is generally very well known among the educators, with the exception of India, where Finland is not yet known in this space. Teacher education would clearly offer opportunities in all the countries, whether in the teacher education per se but also in areas like students' career counselling, curricula design and personalised learning programmes.
From Russia we also had an interesting case study "Skolkovo Open University", a new format of university (http://www.skolkovo.ru/public/en/)
The Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO is an innovative international institution of the future. It is focused on developing the unique leadership and communicative skills required for the new type of manager who will be in demand in the 21st century - the age of human resources. In providing practical knowledge, SKOLKOVO trains business leaders who will apply their professional skills in dynamically developing markets; leaders who will set up and run their own businesses and lead the development of the Russian economy.
From the group discussions in the various locations in Finland we collected the following points:
- Main vision for Finland's future success should be in vocational adult learning, with focus on emerging countries
- Business model: Finland should focus on a mixture of technology and content by creating packages and utilising platforms like Future Learning Finland
- To better understand how to create business models which would join together companies, educators and researchers: Finland needs "holistic attack" with strong industry presence
- Within 10 years from now, books will not be used but all the content will be digital and there will be more focus on content - how to capitalise on that?
- Finland needs to partner up with global big players in order to create scalability and co-creation
- Finland as a role model in teacher education: what learnings can we take in our experience for building export products
- Finland needs a national strategy which identifies the opportunities and shares them - can Future Learning Finland be the platform?
- Finland should be smart enought to concentrate on what she is good at and build on that:
tailored product and service portfolio needed - more deeper understanding of global needs is required. Revenue models are important!
- We have to be able to create a vision what will sell in 10 years time: by 2020 edu services should be the cornerstone of Finland's success
- We should learn to collaborate more inside Finland and commit to long term planning and we should be ready to take more risks
- Innovative business models needed: future teacher training schools, mentoring system, science workshops or festivals: creating science with corporate world and create space in schools for testing and practising the ideas
- Business element is needed in the learning and education - private and public need to join hands
- Building a Finnish teacher education centre model and selling it globally
- Finland is badly behind in online, mobile and e-learning - are we aware of this?
- to initiate a value chain creation (where marketing and sales are fundamental), identify sufficient funding and human resources, get commitment from research bodies and edu institution and this exercise will lead into productisation and into a robust portfolio
- Concrete pilot projects are needed as "test labs", eg in India create a collaboration with an NGO: when education starts making an impact on the livelihood, its value is perceived much better than just being persuaded to send one's kids to school!
- Finland should become a world leader in tailormade training services - we will need new structures and a completely new mindset as the current model is not flying - we should become truly solid professionals in the world's eyes and have a large pool of top experts speaking on the global arenas and getting paid for it!
- the momentum is now - there are other countries, also China, which are on the same mission
- the game is being played outside Finland - we need more Finnish presence like Team Finland in the global markets
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