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The Global Trends in Professional Learning and Performance and Development report provides an overview of innovative practices worldwide.
While these reports were created some time ago, the information remains valuable and may still inform your work. We encourage you to use your professional judgement in applying them.
Global trends report
The report assessed innovative programs and practices on the extent to which they:
- tap into passions and ownership of participants
- engage with external partners who offer fresh perspectives
- use technology to support collaboration
- draw on new or existing data (in new ways)
- enable participants to rethink the use of resources.
Based on an extensive ‘horizon scan’ of more than 50 cross-sectoral organisations (including education, arts, technology, business, health etc.), the report identifies 5 global trends in innovative approaches to professional learning and performance and development: Integrated, Immersive, Design-led, Market-led and Open.
For each of these trends the report identifies a spectrum of practices from ‘Almost/already here’ to ‘Next wave’ and ‘On the Horizon’ providing concrete examples for implementation in the education sector.
Case study report
The case studies document looks at 6 case studies of innovation, and the key features of each.
- Learning with and from students at Harris Student Commission on Learning
- Bringing HR into the 21st Century at U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Personnel Demonstration
- Pathways into open learning at EduPlanet21
- Organisation-specific, careerlong learning at Infosys
- Design-led models Me PD + Design at Thinking for Educators Toolkit
Disciplined inquiry to shape professional learning at Spirals of Inquiry
50 examples guide
The guide looks at the 50 examples of innovative approaches to professional learning and performance and development profiled in the Global Trends in Professional Learning and Performance and Development report.
