This report discusses findings based on responses to a request for information (RFI) led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Digital Promise, which received nearly 200 responses that described a variety of innovative approaches to leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) for mathematics teaching and learning. As AI becomes increasingly…

This qualitative phenomenological study explored identifying characteristics and necessary components of educational innovation in K12 international schools in Asia. Two research questions guided the exploration of observed characteristics of innovation and global leader's perceptions of components of innovation. The findings suggested observed…

This working paper identifies OECD countries' interests in digital innovation in education by analysing their policy papers on digital education. Many OECD countries have adopted a specific strategy on digital education, or integrated the topic in a generic strategy on digital innovation as such. The ideas that are expressed in the strategies…

This book identifies three types of influential forces that pose challenges to innovations: socio-cultural dynamics, teacher individuality, and local circumstances. It uses languages, cultural traits, and intellectual heritages in the Asia-Pacific region as an example to show the resistance to Western-based pedagogies due to disparities between…

Change is critical in most organizations. International schools attempting to redefine 21st century education for their students are innovating pedagogies and schools' structures. However, the leader of an organization or school may be the most influential advocate for or barrier to change. International schools' leaders continue to play a role in…

The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) is one of the world's leading educational research centres. ACER's mission is to create and promote research-based knowledge, products and services that can be used to improve learning across the life span. This annual report describes ACER's milestones and accomplishments for the 2015-2016…

The gap between the levels of learning that education systems are providing and what children, communities and economies need, is growing. The breadth and depth of this learning crisis constitute the greatest global challenge to preparing children and adolescents for life, work and active citizenship. The lesson of the learning crisis is clear:…

Problems involved in implementing curriculum changes in Asian countries is the subject of this report, presented in the form of a symposium. The Technical Working Group of the Asian Centre of Educational Innovation for Development (ACEID) met in September, 1976, to study the experiences of the following countries: India, Indonesia, Republic of…

Eleven country reports and five special articles, contributed by educators who have been associated with the planning of education in their countries, are presented. In analyzing their experiences, educators not only pinpoint organizational and procedural shortcomings from which educational planning has suffered in Asia, but also highlight what…

This report summarizes the proceedings of the Thirteenth Regional Consultation Meeting on the Asia and Pacific Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID). The meeting's objectives were to: (1) make an overall review of APEID's work during the 5-year period 1987-91; (2) to discuss major educational innovations that have…

A summary of major concerns of UNESCO's Educational Innovation for Development program in six world regions is presented in this conference report. The conference included educational network participants from Asia, the Caribbean, Southeast Europe, the Arab States, Africa, and Central America. The program encourages innovative educational efforts…

In 1967, the National Institute for Educational Research (NIER) of Japan, in cooperation with Unesco, launched its Regional Programme for Educational Development in Asia. This document was published to commemorate the 20th anniversary of this program. It consists of papers by separate authors recording the accomplishments of the NIER regional…

Reports are made of a meeting of ten Asian representatives to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) at the Regional Office for Education in Asia and Oceania, in Bangkok in the fall of 1978. It was the responsibility of this group to explore the following topics: (1) To study and analyze the experiences of…

This publication is the fourth in a series of reports on educational innovation in Asia. In describing the educational situation in Korea, the author has organized his discussion into two broad subject areas. Section 1 is concerned with innovations in national educational policies, while section 2 focuses on educational innovations at the…

A meeting report on education within the context of futures studies is divided into four chapters. Chapter One discusses the background of the meeting. Chapter Two outlines the studies presented by each of the eight Asian and Pacific nations represented at the meeting: Australia, India, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Korea, and…