Symposium on the Future of Learning | Workshop 5

Thomas Nárosy | “Joint Advantage: Education Innovation Depends on Overlapping Collaboration”

The OECD has dedicated almost 10 years to the ILE Innovative Learning Environments project. At the core, the project analyzed how young people learn today and under what conditions they can learn better. The results of the project – in a way a “blueprint” of the development of education systems in the OECD area “beyond teaching” – describe the core of innovative learning environments using seven learning principles, while three development dimensions outline the direction for a dynamic implementation of this core. The third dimension “transformation and change in learning ecosystems” emphasizes the need to open up the “networked learning ecosystem”. The Future Learning Lab Wien FLL.wien understands itself, among other things, as a learning space in exactly this sense. The workshop will focus on three issues: Firstly, the recently published “OECD Handbook for Innovative Learning Environments” is presented; secondly the FLL.wien concept and program will be introduced and discussed, and, thirdly, opening up to hitherto untapped development potentials. In particular, the focus is on aspects for which the “classical interior of education” is dependent on opening and collaboration.

Thomas Nárosy: From 2005 to 2016 consultant (employed) at Education Group GmbH. Focus on e-learning and IT integration in school development processes. In addition coordinator and adviser in many projects of the Austrian Ministry of Education and the University Colleges for Teacher Education: EPICT Implementation Project; NMS e-learning support; Onlinecampus Virtuelle PH; edumoodle; SQA; schulleiter2; schulleitung.schule.at; KidZ; Mobile Teaching; digi.komp4.8.12.P; digi.check; eEducation Austria. From 2000 to 2009 head of e-LISA academy (predecessor organization of the Onlinecampus Virtuelle PH). (Teacher-)Studies at Technical University of Vienna, University of Vienna, University Colleges for Teacher Education Baden and Vienna University of Economics and Business. MBA Master Thesis (WU-Vienna) about school management and IT integration. Currently he is developing the Future Learning Lab Vienna together with the University College of Teacher Education Vienna (PH Wien).