Video of the ACE model including images of people studying in different settings (individually, in a group, and practicing skills at work). Images of current global issues (climate changes, social problems, war) are also included in the video.
Updating education to promote innovation
Innovation + education: innovation helps solving society’s challenges and through this process content and skills increase in importance, stay similarly relevant, or become obsolete. This cycle pushes forward the development of new content knowledge and skills, forcing education to reinvent itself to follow the pace of innovation.
The current education model can be somewhat monolithic and thus exclude full-time employees balancing personal, professional, and financial obligations. Responsibly adapting to this dynamic creates a need for education that is both rapid and continuous. Importantly, this education needs to be highly practical but following a model based on rigorous educational research, and conveyed in a fluid, flexible, digestible way.
Rethinking Education Model
Responding to a continuously changing world
We want to connect with professionals seeking to advance their knowledge and skills in the field of education; learning & development leaders at companies; education policy makers; MIT and other university scholars conducting research in ACE and ACE-like models; and those interested in the current development of education and its future.
A Community of Education Innovators
Professionals are continuously in need of updating their content knowledge and developing new skills. Current academic systems enable expertise acquisition primarily through graduate-level programs. This approach is valuable but, in a rapidly-changing world, how can higher education institutions be sure they offer what professionals will need years from today? How can professionals offer insights on what they need so higher education institutions respond accordingly, but also with research rigor, to best help them?
“The half-life of knowledge is shorter than ever before, human beings have to transform themselves, and the oxygen for that transformation is learning”
— Sanjay E. Sarma, MIT Faculty and MIT ACE founder
The ACE Pathways
MIT Emerging Talent
The MIT Nurturing Emergent Talent (NET) at MIT is an institute-wide effort to develop global education programs that target the needs of underserved communities, including refugees, displaced persons, migrants and economically disadvantaged populations.
Global Apprenticeship Program
The Global Apprenticeship Program (GAP) is an initiative, led by MIT Open Learning and The Intern Group, focused on improving diverse emerging talent job preparedness and how companies can successfully recruit, onboard and retain this talent.
Data Science Training
In May 2019 the Program in Data Science Uruguay started activities with its first generation participating in an MIT-planned and led workshop. After successfully completing the first generation with support from MIT J-WEL.
