The
WEgrid 'Enabling Systems' Approach
to Creating the Future of Education
'a
good workman is known by his tools' ... proverb
A grasp of the WEgrid 'Enabling System' approach is critical to understanding how the WEgrid concept can be used to address the global crisis in education. To those who are used to solving problems by formulating 'prescriptive' solutions, rather than looking at them from a systems viewpoint, the approach introduces new ways of thinking about how to solve the global education crisis.
Means for Dynamically Creating Education Solutions -- The WEgrid 'Enabling System' approach addresses the reform of education not from the viewpoint of devising a single master solution (i.e., 'static prescription'), but instead from the viewpoint of creating the means for dynamically creating education solutions as needed and to fit the prevailing education requirements. The premise is that in a fast moving future, there is no master solution that can be devised that will continue to work forever.
"Good Ideas are only as good as their Implementation" -- In a global climate of increasing complexity and accelerating change, it is no longer viable to approach the future of education by focusing on the development of new strategies and education innovations while ignoring the inadequacies of the education infrastructure that implements education. New strategies and innovation in education will only be as good as the infrastructure that implements them. Today's educators are hobbled by the complete absence of any sort of formalized conceptual framework for creating their education solutions and a highly fragmented unsystemized environment for deploying them. In spite of an abundance of excellent education ideas and innovation, education remains grossly inefficient and ineffective because the infrastructure that implements it lacks the power to enable the formulation of effective education and to deploy it efficiently.Implementation Empowerment is critical for the Future of Education -- The WEgrid 'Enabling Systems' approach is to re-engineer the infrastructure that implements education in order to enable educators to enjoy a new level of implementation empowerment with which to create and deploy education. New concepts and functionality are introduced within a system framework to enable more powerful ways to formulate and deploy education and to address head-on the important issues of education.For example, in order to significantly raise the effectiveness of education, the system mechanisms to support the customization (personalization) of education for each individual learner will be built-in at a fundamental level.
In order to address head-on the pervasiveness of education failure, the system mechanisms to detect in real-time exactly where, when, and why education fails will be built-in at a fundamental level.Using an 'Enabling Systems' approach to establish a new unified education infrastructure with a high level of expressive power for implementing education has far-reaching ramifications. Without it, successes will be at best point solutions, unable to contribute to a wider solution to the global education crisis because the current infrastructure that implements education inadequately supports the leveraging of those successes.