Where Learning Meets Future Capabilities
Uniting educators and researchers to create the education that students will need to thrive today and tomorrow
Uniting researchers, educators, and leaders to collaboratively design and pioneer innovative approaches that shape the future of education.
Welcome To The Education Futures Academy
Adelaide University’s Education Futures Academy works with partners, clients, and collaborators locally and globally, researching and developing the kinds of educational practices, environments, and resources needed to generate the complex capabilities our students and our societies will need in the future.
Collaborating to create the future of education together.
Our community undertakes educational design and research in the tradition of the Learning Sciences — an interdisciplinary field committed to better understanding how learning happens in real-world situations.
We embrace the complexity of learning as it occurs in schools, online, in the workplace and informal environments like libraries and museums.
Shaping the Future of Education Together:
Our community undertakes educational design and research in the tradition of the Learning Science — an interdisciplinary field committed to better understanding how learning happens in real-world situations.
We embrace the complexity of learning as it occurs in schools, online, in the workplace and in informal environments like museums.
Partnering for Real-World Impact
At the Education Futures Academy, we work in partnership with schools to co-create innovative, research-based solutions for the unique challenges they face. Our Pragmatic Adaptive Change (PAC) Framework empowers educators to lead the way in shaping sustainable and future-focused learning environments.
We create impact through five catalysts:
Local Leadership
Educational improvement starts with people who understands local context and can navigate its complexity.
Expert Consultancy
Through Adelaide University’s world-class research expertise, we provide high-level support across strategy, review, and design to amplify each project’s potential for real-world impact.
Sensemaking, Evaluation and Research
We work with our partners and clients to make sense of existing data, identify gaps, and explore new terrain using emerging research.
Locally Led Teacher Professional Learning
We provide the frameworks and support needed to create powerful, embedded professional learning experiences that are led from within and responsive to local need.
Future Capabilities Curriculum
We make it concrete by providing ‘worked examples’ of what a futures-oriented curriculum can look like. We provide lesson and unit plans, resources and equipment. We also conduct learning activities on the Adelaide University campuses, or at your school.
Elevate Your Teaching Skills
Online Professional Learning
Self-paced courses to boost your skills and stay ahead in teaching.
Research Based Design
Resources Made By the Community, For the Community
Discover a range of curriculum resources and teacher professional development workshops and materials to enhance your knowledge.
Futures Curriculum
Lesson plans and units of work for your classroom, aligned to the Australian curriculum, to build life-long learners
Teacher Workshops
