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Building Schools for the Future: An Opportunity to Personalise Learning and Fundamentally Re-Think the Business of Education

Overview This paper highlights some significant challenges and opportunities provided by the UK government's multi-year programme to build and refurbish schools for the nation's future learning and educational needs. It seeks to characterise a learner-centric, ICT-enabled, blend of virtual and physical worlds that Building Schools for the Future (BSF) champions might like to explore in formulating their own vision of the future of education It contrasts the learner-centric, ICT-enabled, blend of virtual and physical worlds with the industrial age "Physical build" frame of reference focused on building individual schools.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	WORD
Date Published	November 2005	Downloads	8
Format	White Papers
Topics	Infrastructure Management, Online - Distance Education

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