In 2022, Estonia will serve as a case study to frame our annual symposium. Since 1998, Estonia’s growth strategy has focused on becoming an information society and to support this goal, the government has created an innovative national curriculum emphasizing problem solving, critical thinking, and information technology. The curriculum has been revised multiple times since then and these innovations, together with the IT infrastructure, resulted in an immediate and smooth pivot to online/hybrid learning as COVID began. Estonia emerged as a top performer on OECD’s PISA 2012, ranking in the top tier in science and close to the top in reading and mathematics among all participating countries and regions. By 2018, Estonia had become a top performer globally in all three subjects and the highest performer in Europe. We believe that Tallinn will be the ideal place to resume the conversations we began in our 2021 virtual symposium on multiple modalities of learning and pedagogy in service of deeper learning as well as assessment, recognition, and credentialing in a post-COVID world.
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See the final agenda for the Symposium.
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