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Future Challenges and Educational Responses: Globalization, Innovation, and Cooperation

Submitted by: United States

Third APEC Education Pre-Ministerial Research Symposium

Moscow, Russia 5-6 February 2012

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Future Challenges and Educational Responses

Fostering Global, Innovative,g , ,

and Cooperative Education

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APEC Long-term GoalsTo Improve the Well-Being of Citizens while Promoting

Economic Growth and Stability

Priority ChallengesFull participation in a knowledge based

Inclusive

– Full participation in a knowledge-based economy

– Protection of environment through green growth

– Establishment of secure and economic and human environments through regional economic integration

Create educational entrepreneurial

Sustainable

InnovativeSecure

Balanced

Five Growth – Create educational entrepreneurial

opportunities for underrepresented populationAttributes

Priority Areas within Three Education Themes

Cooperation•Bring the  economies together to collaborate on activities

• Improving 

Innovation

Globalization

teacher quality

•Using ICT in education

• Technical vocational education & higher education quality

• Math, science, language, & cultural education

“To work in a multinational company in an APEC economy, you must have a good education, and secondly, to develop on the education, to continue learning throughout your life.” –Ambassador Muhamad Noor Yacob, Executive Director of APEC Secretariat,

Introduction to International Education Week

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Education Theme: Globalization

The nature of work keeps changing. – Businesses work in more than one economy

– Businesses must adapt to current economic conditions

– Workers may move from one job or industry to another; requiring flexibility and cultural competency

– Rapid advances in technology and communication p gychange the tasks that workers perform.

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Globalization: Challenges and Responses

• Challenges– Workers must communicate well and use ICT effectively.– Workers must have a strong foundation in 21st century skills..– Workers must have strong foundations in-depth knowledge of

mathematics, science, and language to be career and college ready.

• Educational Responses– Help learners become comfortable in other languages and other

culturescultures.– Strengthen the curricula for technical vocational education and training,

as well as higher education.– Hold institutions of learning accountable for providing a high-quality

education.

Education Theme: Innovation

The education infrastructure is evolving.– Like the business sector education depends more and Like the business sector, education depends more and

more on ICT.

– Teachers and students need expertise in 21st century tools and knowledge

– Well-paying jobs demand expertise in ICT, mathematics and scienceand science.

– ICT advances demand teacher knowledge of how to facilitate their use.

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Innovation: Challenges and Responses

• Challenges– Teachers must facilitate the mastery of subject matter content and 21st

t kill th h h ICT li t l d d ti century skills through resources such as ICT, online tools, and adaptive technologies.

– Teachers must understand, and have the opportunity to learn and practice information technology if they are to be effective and successful in promoting student achievement.

• Educational Responses– Establish professional learning communities to support teachers’ use of

ICT-supported learning. – Strengthen the infrastructure for technical vocational education and

training, as well as the quality of higher education.

Education Theme: Cooperation

APEC leaders must support

To ensure that learners have the opportunity to succeed in the globalized, knowledge-based workforce:

APEC leaders must support

• Education policy

• Reform efforts

• Program implementation plans

…..across economic borders and sectors.

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Cooperation: Challenges and Responses

• Challenges– Separate education initiatives tend to be piecemeal, short-term and less

ff tieffective– Forming partnerships with informal educators (in museums, libraries,

etc) as well as with businesses. – Creating opportunities for students to collaborate across regions and

cultures

• Educational Responses– Leverage resources wisely – Leverage resources wisely. – Build a regional clearinghouse of best practices in education– Establish norms for cross-sector collaboration– Agree on common indicators to measure progress

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Third APEC Educational Symposium on Policy & Research

Priorities:Priorities:(1) Future skills development in mathematics, science, language

and culture education(2) Technical vocational education and training and higher

education quality(3) Using ICT in education(4) Improving teacher quality(5) Cooperation & partnerships