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Learning in exponential times -
how to adapt our education systems to
our world challenges?
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2.
Freelancer.
Educator.
Learning system designer.
Born: ! - Live: "
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Intro

3.
Intro
Local Academy (2013)- Learning from 10 countries.
“EdTech” is about everything in
between Education and Tech.
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4.
Intro
At which scale can we drive change in “adult” education?
How do we adapt the education systems to help
workers stays relevant in the future?
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What’s the deal?

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1. Content access is growing exponentially…
… yet content delivery is mostly the same.
What’s the deal?
2018
1839
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What’s the deal?
2. 45% of tasks are prone to automation…
… and many roles/jobs evolve quickly as a consequence.
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Learning is the new gym!
What’s the deal?
3. Classical patterns are no longer valid
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“It’s getting complicated”

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Education is failing learners ($1.5T debt - negative ROI)….
“It’s getting complicated”
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… and those who could be hired increasingly decide not to be.
21%
of them
make $100k+
(vs 12% in 2009)
“It’s getting complicated”
45%
Of the US working
population is
freelancing.
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12.
Time.
Perceived
skillset
Currently
hired.
“It’s getting complicated”
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Ideal world.

13.
Don’t want to
be hired.
Currently
hired.
Time.
Perceived
skillset
“It’s getting complicated”
Want to be
hired.
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What actually happens.

14.
Solutions

15.
New tools to monitor opportunities.
Some APIs can help us track real time how work changes and act on it.
Solutions
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#! JobSignal (2015 - our contribution):
Based on Angelist’s API to track “role changes”.
Solutions
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Redefine the “higher-education deal”
Companies becoming campuses.
New education “signals”.
Educators welcoming more real-life cases.
Solutions
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18.
" CODE University of Applied Sciences (2017)
Multi-disciplinary Bachelor fuelled by 10 companies (& teams) year 1.
Solutions
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19.
$ First Tech Bros?
Rambrandt - 1662
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Modern Guilds/Collectives for freelancers
For today: diverse active Alumni/hybrid spaces on new crafts)
Solutions
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" Factory Berlin (2,600 members).
Coworking communities: 130 slack channels (50 with 50+ members)
Solutions

22.
Don’t want to
be hired.
Time.
Perceived
skillset
Currently
hired.
Solutions
Want to be
hired.
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What actually happens.

23.
Don’t want to
be hired.
Want to be
hired.
Time.
Perceived
skillset
“Exclusive
trainings.”
Inclusive
trainings
Internal
trainings
Currently
hired.
Solutions
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What we can imagine!

24.
Recap

25.
Recap
• New tech tools can help us monitor
opportunities for growth.
• Education and work are converging today
(again) and we need a more permeable
“higher education deal”.
• Modern guilds/collectives for freelancers
are key. Community-based lifelong
learning > Lifelong learning.
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26.
One more thing

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“People obviously cannot be good craftworkers (…) unless, regardless of
their occupation, they are good, upstanding and – according to their
condition – well-informed human beings and citizens.
If this basis is laid through schooling, vocational skills are easily acquired
later on, and a person is always free to move from one occupation to
another, as so often happens in life.”
One more thing
Humboldt (1804) & “Bildung”
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Slides (and database of projects): on margauxpelen.com
Feedback/Conversation: margaux.pelen(at)gmail.com
Thank you!