The Future Learner: (Digital) Education Reimagined for 2040
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://unif.fr/wp-content/uploads/TheFutureLearner-DigitalEducationReimaginedfor2040.pdf" target="_blank" >https://unif.fr/wp-content/uploads/TheFutureLearner-DigitalEducationReimaginedfor2040.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Future Learner: (Digital) Education Reimagined for 2040
Original language description
This report explores how digital education may evolve by 2040, using a foresight-based approach developed within the European Digital Education Hub. It identifies major technological, social, economic, environmental, and political trends shaping future learning, including generative AI, immersive technologies, demographic shifts, wellbeing, and sustainability. The authors develop four scenario archetypes—empowered learning, constrained education, decline, and transformation—to illustrate plausible futures and their implications for learners, educators, and institutions. Through these scenarios, the report highlights opportunities for personalised and lifelong learning, as well as risks related to inequality, overregulation, technological dependence, misinformation, and environmental impact. Narrative “day in the life” stories bring each scenario to life, showing how different futures could affect everyday educational practice. The report aims to raise awareness among policymakers and practitioners about the long-term consequences of today’s decisions and to support strategic planning for resilient, inclusive, and human‑centred digital education systems.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
O - Miscellaneous
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů