Learning Futures

Through Principled Innovation, Learning Futures at ASU brings collaborative leaders, creative thinkers and innovative ideas together to design the futures of learning and advance equity and excellence in education systems.

Learning Futures at ASU proceeds from the conviction that, in a world experiencing faster and bigger change, we need education leaders who can make informed, ethical and effective decisions about what to do and not do. Our work is rooted in a core value of principled innovation, which holds that education should answer to three imperatives:

• An equity imperative: We need to deliver excellence in education to all learners regardless of any human characteristic that might lead to unfairness or discrimination in learning opportunities.
• An economic imperative: We need to prepare learners for the next economy and equip them for success in the workforce of the future.
• A democratic imperative: We need to prepare learners to be caring, responsible citizens capable of balancing individual ambition and the public good.