What Do Policy Makers Learn from Foresights Around ICT-Enabled Learning—A Comment from a Policy Maker Perspective

Abstract

The 12 Grand Challenges notified in this book provide a wealth of information and ideas to guide current policy makers to shape long-term policies and actions. These Grand Challenges are being formulated at a time when more and more of us are recognising the increasing importance of ICT in and for education and the necessity to find solutions to overcome the enormous gap between education and all other sectors of life and work. Three imminent trends identified along the 12 Grand Challenges note a fundamental paradigm shift in the role of new technologies supporting educational change. But this is not enough. The focus should be no longer on ICT tools and infrastructures but on open and flexible learning and teaching with the learner (and the educator) at the centre. This shows that the step from an early adoption of ICT use in education towards mainstream- ing has started. It is all about the core business of education: Learning.