Blogs on 'Technology'

As part of our SHAPE Education initiative, we’re hosting monthly debates with experts on the future of education. This month we discussed how, as educators and an education system, we can prepare students to thrive in the future world. Dan Hutchinson, Proposition Director, Higher Education & Adult at Cambridge University Press ELT reflects on the recent event.

What is the future of English language teaching in schools? What do we need to do to support the future of English language education? Who decides on the curriculum? Read a summary of the discussions in this final part in our series of blogs reflecting on the week-long SHAPE Education: The Future of Schools event.

In this blog, on the penultimate day of the five-day SHAPE Education: The Future of Schools event we focus on educational technology. The speakers discussed the role they see technology playing in education by 2040.

In this blog, on the third day of the five-day SHAPE Education: The Future of Schools event we focus on learners and their future needs for work. Questions and discussions centred on where we work, how we work, and how this will have to change for the future.

In this blog, on the second day of the five-day SHAPE Education: The Future of Schools event we focus specifically on what education will look like in 20 years’ time.

In this blog, we focus on the first day of the five-day event which aimed to unpack social issues facing the future of education, demonstrate the complexity of the issues in global and local contexts, and identify ways that we might respond to the emerging challenges.

As the call and need for digital assessment continues to grow, across Cambridge Assessment we are actively exploring what qualifications purely designed for delivery and taking in a digital format might look like.

eLearning Manager for Cambridge Assessment International Education, Andrew Field, looks at teaching and technology in 2021 and the opportunities for the future.

Dan Frost, Learning Technology Lead at Cambridge Assessment English and part of the team behind the SHAPE initiative, reflects on the online event and its outcomes.

The novel coronavirus outbreak presents huge and unexpected challenges for the education community worldwide. As an international exams group, Cambridge Assessment has a range of resources and digital products available that can support and enable remote teaching and learning.

Jaideep Prabhu gives an insight into innovation and why the best innovation is often fast, fun and frugal.

How knowledge of key assessment concepts can support teachers to make evidence-based decisions in order to optimise the use of technology in education.

Andrew Nye and Dr Evelina Galaczi from Cambridge Assessment English were challenged to think critically about the future of teaching and learning at this year's SXSW Edu conference in Texas.

From an abacus to an IBM - how did our technology evolve throughout the twentieth century to support the marking of our examinations?

TES columinst Joe Nutt guest blogs for us following a lively debate about the use of technology in education, which Cambridge Assessment sponsored and live-streamed for the Centre for Education Economics.

Guest blogger, Carla Adams, looks ahead to a world where today's school children will be in jobs we can't yet imagine.

Designing assessments for a digitalised world