On Friday the 12th of February, Igor Kluin, network member of Enviu and director of Qurrent, joined the first vision meeting organised by the Innovation Platform with 19 other young visionairs. Their assignment was to come up with the first ideas for a possible vision that can make the Netherlands more competitive. Here a short summary of his experience:
“I was very positive about the diversity of people that were present to think along.
I joined a sub-brainstorm group that came up with the idea of redesigning education in the NL: Life long learning. Educations should have shorter ‘run times’[1] and institutes should be interconnected much more. What you learn in the first 2 years is old information already in the last 2 years. If you can apply for courses in other institutes all the time and don’t stop learning after 4 yrs but keep learning all your life, this would improve the quality of knowledge and keep everybody up to date. Borders to diploma’s and titles fade and you are both teacher and student. You teach for example in the one course and are a student in the other: flexible and without boundaries.
The financial system in education should change as well. It should consist of a premium system like in healthcare insurance. You pay premiums your whole your life just like you consume education your whole life.
Essence: you learn continuously.
Take for example a pilot or a doctor. They take all sorts of courses during their studies and job to keep up to date with their knowlegde. They got to have a steady base but after their studies there are many things that change and they get extra training. This should be normal! We used the metaphor of stringing beads: you add beads throughout your entire life.
“I was very positive about the diversity of people that were present to think along.
I joined a sub-brainstorm group that came up with the idea of redesigning education in the NL: Life long learning. Educations should have shorter ‘run times’[1] and institutes should be interconnected much more. What you learn in the first 2 years is old information already in the last 2 years. If you can apply for courses in other institutes all the time and don’t stop learning after 4 yrs but keep learning all your life, this would improve the quality of knowledge and keep everybody up to date. Borders to diploma’s and titles fade and you are both teacher and student. You teach for example in the one course and are a student in the other: flexible and without boundaries.
The financial system in education should change as well. It should consist of a premium system like in healthcare insurance. You pay premiums your whole your life just like you consume education your whole life.
Essence: you learn continuously.
Take for example a pilot or a doctor. They take all sorts of courses during their studies and job to keep up to date with their knowlegde. They got to have a steady base but after their studies there are many things that change and they get extra training. This should be normal! We used the metaphor of stringing beads: you add beads throughout your entire life.
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