Informed choice

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Overview

• State educational provision is limited to early years and primary
• Students recruit mentors to help them develop lifelong and tailored learning programmes from secondary age onwards
• Curriculum and pedagogy are configured around an individual learner's history, background and experience
• Assessment is iterative and formative and produces a long term picture of achievement, dispositions and development
• Learning never ends: age is no barrier to taking up new learning activities
• Learners produce coherent career and learning narratives that they can constantly develop and share with potential employers

In this scenario...

The state has gradually withdrawn from educational provision and regulation, leaving only a small role in the provision of early years and primary education for basic socialization, but ensuring that systems are in place to ensure that individuals are able to competently navigate a more complex educational landscape of provision.

Beyond the primary years, education is funded by individuals and employers with learning offerings available in a range of sites such as workplaces, homes, local communities and educational institutions. Personalised, wearable technologies also enable the diversification of sites of provision and access to educational resources, enabling the learner to 'wrap' educational provision around their needs and preferences.

At the heart of educational decision-making is the mentor, recruited by the student to support them to build a coherent educational trajectory and to make informed choices from the range of offerings. The mentor and student work together to select and tailor educational experiences that build on the students' personal history, strengths, background and experiences. Educators selected by the learner attempt to tailor educational offerings specifically around the needs and histories of the individual, supported in this by the information and advice offered by the learning mentor.

Assessment in this scenario is focused specificallyupon building a picture of personal development for the learner and the mentor, for providing a coherent overview of the learners' trajectory over time, and for bringing together the diverse elements of the individuals' learning career in a coherent fashion. Advanced e-portfolios that intelligently combine information are a key tool to support this personal narrative.

See what technology, identity, curriculum and motivation look like in this scenario

This scenario is based on the same world as Scenario 2: The independent consumer and shares its underpinning values. See www.beyondcurrenthorizons.org.uk for a description of their common world.

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