January 2025, CITEVE

The current challenges facing education in terms of understanding and incorporating flexibility, autonomy, digital tools and innovative methodologies, elements that are anchored in the processes of change and im-proving the quality of educational responses, are more than ever considerations that form part of European, national and regional educational strategies.

As education systems seek to improve student results or implement processes to review and/or reform the current policies, autonomy and curricular flexibility play a central role.

Fostering and promoting solid development, capable of producing changes, both in terms of educational success and progress, and in terms of personal and social growth, must be the pillars of any innovative edu-cation system. Innovation in educational contexts must be present at the level of curricular flexibility, which in turn includes flexibility in objectives, content, assessment and learning time. These dimensions require joint action on the part of educational agents in close collaboration with political decision-makers, students, industry and parents.

Mapping the needs of each interested party makes it possible to influence decision-making and tackle edu-cational vulnerabilities, uncertainties and complexities with greater innovation and motivation.

Educational processes have never had a wider range of resource opportunities than the ones presented to-day, and never has there existed more participation in the processes of change. Mediating and combining different resources will only make education increasingly inclusive and collaborative.

In a society where the words ‘change’ and ‘transition’ assume a colossal dimension, transforming and inno-vating through technological and flexible processes must be part of all educational communities, from pri-mary to higher education, and adult learning. Curricular programmes are only meaningful if they combine educational concepts with the industry's needs. This articulation allows to build the future of the students by giving them the real bases of the labour market, resulting in more conscious and knowledgeable academic and occupational choices.

Deconstructing curricula is an audacious and necessary process!

Technology is reinforcing its impact on student learning. Evolving educational resources are keeping pace with the evolution and transformation that society is undergoing at all levels. The TCLF industry is investing in and integrating artificial intelligence to optimise processes, incorporating virtual and augmented reality tools, prototyping, among others, to improve its autonomy, competitiveness, and reduce errors and costs.

Technology in education is not only a provider of knowledge, but also a co-creator of information and a men-tor. This significant impact on the learning process calls for more flexible curricula able to keep up with tech-nological evolution and the essential knowledge for each student's education, being able to encompass oth-er competences such as critical thinking, language skills, collaboration and digital skills.

If education is combined with technology and innovation, it will certainly create disruptive processes that avoid the repetitive approach of methodologies, concepts, etc. and are more based on transformation, flexi-bility and autonomy, being metamorphoses of a social and political order.

When this happens, they also act as catalysts for change, making education a fairer and more heterogene-ous collective action.

By CITEVE