Creating and sustaining innovative learning

This chapter brings the different dimensions and insights about innovative learning environments together. It focuses on three components or layers – the “pedagogical core”, the “ formative cycle” within the organisation, and partnerships – as well as how the learning principles should be at the centre and permeate throughout. These provide the characteristics towards which contemporary innovative learning environments should aspire. The chapter looks at how some of the traditional fundamentals of schooling are being rethought in the innovations: the constraints of proximity and distance and the balance of the social and the individual. It revisits the four “pumps” of innovation of earlier OECD work as well as identified barriers to innovation. These give the key factors on which to focus in growing and sustaining innovative learning environments: evaluation and evidence, technology, organisational change, and system building and transformation.