Luciane Veeck (WMO ETR), Patrick Parrish - (1) Call for Proposals: New 2024 edition of WMO Global Campus Innovations and (2) Dialogue: Envisioning Education and Training in 2030

Inventing the future through innovation always begins with a vision. 

A vision of how processes and results can be improved or enhanced.

This is why there are two components to this CALMet asynchronous session.

1. WMO is announcing a Call for Proposals for a new edition of the WMO Global Campus Innovations. The last edition was produced in 2020, meaning that the innovations described there were conceived and implemented in 2019 or before. A lot has happened since then. See links below to the WMO Global Campus Innovations (ETR-27), 2020 edition to see what WMO Members reported in 2020.

The 2024 edition will hopefully include not only many more cases of diverse directions for education and training, but also new contributors. Whether you contributed to the first edition or whether this would be your first time, this is your year to contribute. The CALMet Conference, where innovations are always shared and where ideas for more innovations begin, is a logical place to announce the Call for Proposals to encourage contributions to this new WMO publication.

A discussion forum thread about Global Campus Innovations has been initiated in the group forum. The initial post contains an attachment of the formal Call for Proposals (also linked above). The post will allow you to ask questions about the publication or to float ideas for consideration. Because the publication process is still in planning, it isn’t certain that all your questions can be answered, but good questions will help in the planning. We also encourage you to share your ideas for proposals to receive early feedback from other CALMet attendees, or to seek collaborators.

2. The second component asks you to share your vision of what education and training for those in WMO disciplines will look like in 2030. The third decade of this century is just over 6 years away, but many of the evolutions are already taking place. What are the most likely drivers of innovations that will become common by 2030?

What do you and your organization think the education and training you are responsible for will look like in 2030? How will the digital revolution march on? How will AI impact teaching and learning? What has the pandemic of 2020 done to drive changes to how teaching and learning will take place? What curriculum updates will be necessary to prepare the professions of 2030? What socio-economic and geopolitical changes will impact your region and the world and how will these impact education and training?

A second forum thread has been set up to allow you to share your visions and generate a discussion about our inevitably diverse thoughts. Read the Guidelines for thinking about and writing your visions of the future of learning to stimulate your thinking (also in the discussion forum). Depending on interest, discussion results could be expanded with new inputs and become the source for a chapter in WMO Global Campus Innovations 2024 or an article on visions of learning futures published in another venue.

Note to participants:  

Please be open in sharing your thoughts and visions of the future. If a summary of the discussion is prepared after CALMet or later, those who participated will be credited, but all comments will be reported as anonymous aggregated information. No individual participants will be credited with specific comments. In other words, your predictions will not be "on the record."

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