Global education systems are increasingly aware that our schools are not adequately preparing our students for a changing future. Eden Strategy Institute conducted a study in 2012 examining major trends and innovations in Singapore's education sector. This presentation is published in collaboration with the Education Innovation Conference 2012 and the UP Singapore urban innovation festival.

1. GOVERNMENT & NON‐PROFIT ∙ INFOCOMMS
Shaping the Classrooms of
our Future
SOCIAL INNOVATION PLAYBOOK SERIES
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2. Most providers share a common vision for educational outcomes
Global achievers from cohesive
communities that truly care and are able to
solve the problems of the world
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3. However, the rising complexities of global challenges hinder
our progress…
broken economic models
Climate change
resource ageing
crunch
Silo‐mentalities toward academic
disciplines do not help to ‘future‐ stressed urban
systems
proof’ education systems
political restlessness
rich‐poor divide
terrorism
human rights disease
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4. … together with changing social structures
Competitiveness
and isolation lead to
social
disengagement
and ‘me‐conomy’
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5. … and capped human potential
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What do these great people have in common?
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6. How would they have done in Singapore?
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All of them were dyslexic
None of them were assessed on standardized tests
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7. New trends are molding the future of education …
Democratized
Pull‐based learning Out of classroom
Cross‐disciplinary
Action‐oriented
Lifelong
Real‐time, anytime Free
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8. Student and teacher roles are evolving
mediator?
coach?
tutor?
facilitator?
mentor?
New roles to
reduce
teacher stress
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9. Students will need to integrate knowledge across disciplines
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10. While the globalized classroom …
… makes
learning
truly 24/7
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11. Big Data can expedite the classroom of the future
• Socio‐economic data • Personality assessments • Curriculum designs
• Health records • Multiple intelligences • Pedagogy efficacy
• Geo‐location data • Literacy level baselines • Teacher feedback
• Online / mobile access • Peer reports • Standardized test scores
• Self‐diagnosis • Facility utilization • Financial returns
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12. … with new learning applications
Schedule Knowledge Facility Mgt
Student Student
Management delivery assessment feedback
FRONT‐END
• Monitoring of progress
• Global benchmarking
• Maximizing class contact time
• Pull‐based class levels
• Multiple pathways
Teachers Students
• Augmented reality
• Cross‐disciplinary teaching
• Gamification
• Teaching tacit / life skills
• Online global classrooms
• Parent‐teacher interactive portals
• Action‐based learning
• Action‐oriented learning
• Staff leadership training • Learning self‐diagnosis
• Shared best practice databases • Individual learning portfolios
• Teacher support platforms • Learning journals
• Job redesign • Lifelong learning
• New temporal scales • Just‐in‐time learning
• 24/7 learning
BACK‐END
• Facilities management systems
• Centralized curriculum repository
• Mass customization
• Technology outsourcing
• Automated administration
Teacher
Teacher Curriculum Student Course
Marketing Fundraising training /
recruitment development compensation enrolment registration
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13. … that can drive meaningful educational & financial outcomes
Students equipped with the right Understanding the value of life‐long
attitudes, skills and tools to be learning increases students’ willingness
lifelong learners to pay for quality education
Better students Higher pricing power
Outcomes
Adding Value In =
Education Input costs
Better educators Better systems
Educators flexible to the changing trends in Systems which facilitate teacher role
society, themselves proponents of lifelong interchangeability and support holistic and
learning sustained student learning
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14. Questions to consider
1. Do the educational innovation roles differ for the
private and public sector?
2. How can we future‐proof our education systems?
3. Can we always link superior educational outcomes to
the bottom‐line?
4. What are novel educational philosophies, curricula,
pedagogies, technologies, and business models that
truly inspire us?
5. What are the easiest ways to build an innovative and
resilient educational organization?
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15. Eden Strategy Institute. Asia’s leader in Social Innovation Consulting
What we do. Eden Strategy Institute approaches the global issues of disease, poverty, illiteracy, and exploitation head‐on, by
formulating strategies, models, processes, products, and designs that help our clients create, realize, and sustain quantum
profit in addressing these issues. We focus exclusively on empowering business strategies with Social Innovations that create
enduring financial impact, such as Silver Hair Marketing, identifying Bottom‐of‐Pyramid segments, creating Ethical Supply
Chains, Microfinancing, Energy Efficiency, Socially Responsible Investing, Policy Planning and Advocacy, and so on.
Our Government & Non‐Profit Practice. Eden has experience spanning the entire Non‐Profit value chain, from advocacy and
capacity building, to fundraising and implementation. We regularly advise on policy reform and help governments plan and
set up industry blueprints and ecosystems, urbanize communities with infrastructure development, correct market failures,
allocate resources, accelerate trade and development programs, advocate causes and lobby for regulatory approvals, make
grants and raise funds, drive for results, and forecast the economic and social impact of governmental and non‐profit
interventions.Our extensive network of contacts with the entire non‐profit ecosystem across Asia‐Pacific, including
fundraisers, corporate donors, government agencies, multilateral organizations, NGOs, and charities, allows us to serve as a
conduit of knowledge and best practices across non‐profit and for‐profit ecosystems.
Our Infocommunications & Media Practice. Eden helps technology leaders develop new products and cultures, set standards
in wars of attrition, reduce CAPEX, and optimize different revenue streams in managing customer lifecycles. Our work enables
firms to build capacity while reducing energy demands with cloud computing, deliver better prices to the agricultural
community with pre‐paid mobile cards, minimize resource consumption by going electronic, leverage on mass media to
impact health awareness, and increase literacy using affordable laptops as inclusive devices for Bottom‐of‐Pyramid segments.
Our philosophy. We believe in the power of ideas to positively shape our world, one client at a time. Our focus is unparalleled
in bringing to bear our entire senior management team, as well as the world’s foremost experts, on our clients’ most pressing
sustainability issues. In turn, we elect to only collaborate with clients who are seriously committed to creating value together.
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16. Thank you!
Contacts: Calvin Chu Yee Ming, Partner
Sarah Wong, Strategy Consultant
Eden Strategy Institute
T: +65 9751 5817
E: calvin@edenstrategyinstitute.com
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