CURRENT CONCERNS OF OECD REGARDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS

Abstract

In the last years, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development has examined the evolution of the innovating process assumed by politicians, but also by public and private institutions from member states in order to promote, disseminate and use digital learning resources in schools. Consequently, a project of OECD's Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) through the Innovative Learning Environments (ILE) is analyzing the way youth learn and in which conditions they could learn better. By identifying specific cases of innovative learning environments worldwide, ILE aims at practical, management and reform informing by generating some analyses regarding innovative learning configurations for children and youth. The role of the project is to analyze the innovative ways of organizing the learning process at micro level (learning environment) and the way it is connected to the middle level (networks and communities of practice), as well as the implementation of change strategies in terms of learning at macro level, namely at system level. The studies shown in this work have tried to focus on the way in which the analyzed studies within OECD institute educational innovation based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and related to digital learning resources, the influencing factors on the success of political action which focuses on promoting those educational innovations, as well as the response of the educational system to these innovations. By comparing the national policies, a ranking of the country came forth regarding ICT measures taken and initial teacher education: countries with a weak involvement in the field, countries with a higher level of awareness regarding the matter and countries who have integrated ICT in initial teacher education, on several levels. Other studies reveal pedagogical models that use digitization as support to teach science, technology, engineering and mathematics, others explore expectations of cooperation in an artificially created network to promote educational innovation through collaboration.