Transformation and change

The chapter overview draws especially on the 2015 publication Schooling Redesigned: Towards Innovative Learning Systems. It presents the case for re-thinking learning ecosystems, describes features of innovation strategies and initiatives, offers the means for depicting networked learning ecosystems, and presents a set of scenarios for the future of the teaching profession. Tool 4.1 gives a method for those with an innovation strategy/initiative to interrogate the theory of action behind it and how it is expected to lead to the desired innovation. Tool 4.2 offers a set of broad indicators to interrogate progress by an education system towards being innovative. Tool 4.3 gives stakeholders the means of mapping dynamic learning systems, bringing together vertical levels and horizontal relationships. Tool 4.4 uses four scenarios to invite users to think of who will be teaching in 2030, the desirability of different futures, and how to move towards preferred scenarios.