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Future Learning

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We believe that by taking a human-centred design approach to learning, we can help students thrive in the future world of work.

  • WHICH IS WHY WE
    • Encouraged a new wave of prospective students for Monash’s Faculty of Engineering
    • Engaged students, faculty and the general public through an integrated campaign for Monash’s Department of Materials Science & Engineering
    • Created a comprehensive brand strategy and visual identity for VPS GRADS

We are designing for a rapidly changing world of work

Automation, emerging technologies, the gig economy and industry shifts are contributing to a rapidly changing world of work. We want to equip people with skills and mindsets needed  to adaptive, love to learn and thrive amidst uncertainty.

 

Local Peoples has spent the past twelve months conducting independent research to understand the perspectives of industry, educators, students and the broader public about where our education system is and where we want it to be. We believe there is a huge opportunity for Australian educators to retain their mantle as world leaders in learning and education, to take a much more human-centred approach to learning and prepare students to solve significant global challenges.

 

Using this research and our multidisciplinary expertise, we aim to design learning experiences which enable people think creatively, solve pressing challenges, connect with each other and learn how to learn.

Here’s what we explored...

We spoke to hundreds of participants from peak industry bodies, education providers and students themselves to better understand how they each navigated their individual career pathways, what skills helped them along the way and which challenges they experienced, first hand.

 

Some key questions we explored were:

  • What skills help us become more adaptable to change?
  • How to create a point of difference in the job market?
  • What does the resume of the future look like?

Here’s what we found...

More than 500 students were surveyed in areas like the importance of purpose-driven careers, sentiment around student experience, measures of stress and anxiety for the future, as well as interest in learning new skills and developing a point of difference in the job market.

 

Here’s a snapshot of what we discovered:

  • 95% want to work for a purpose-driven organisation
  • 92% would like more opportunities to gain experience with purpose driven organisations
  • 75% Would like their university to provide more opportunities to collaborate with students from other courses
  • 68% Were stressed about their job prospects
  • 69% Feel stressed about performing well in future workplaces
  • 91% Are interested in learning how to stand out in the job market

The essential future skills...

Through this research project we’ve identified the following future skills as being fundamental to success in current and future workplaces :

  • Collaboration
  • Creativity
  • Critical-thinking
  • Curiosity
  • Empathy
  • Experimentation
  • Problem solving
  • Play
  • Storytelling

Future Learning Research in Action

  • Introducing College of the Curious

    College of the Curious was born from our Future of Learning research.

     

    Applying multidisciplinary expertise and tools for creative thinking that can be missed in traditional education, the innovative experiential challenge (forming part of the acclaimed Melbourne Design Week program) will push participants —aka ‘students’— to think outside the box. Testing their mental elasticity as they navigate a weird and wonderful obstacle course, “Graduates” will successfully take part in:

     

    • A mix and match test that explores nonlinear education pathways
    • ‘Future Artefact’ building with a hidden twist
    • An exercise in story-telling, exploring the multiplicity of our realities
    • A weird and wonderful race that draws on nostalgia
    • An interactive installation exploring the power of perception
    • A sense-driven surprise

  • Introducing the report

    Our report, The Future Learning Handbook: Preparing students for the Changing World of Work, provides an analysis of current industry trends based on exclusively gathered research and statistics.

     

    The findings help shape our complex knowledge of the Australian education landscape, its challenges and what opportunities lie ahead.

     

    Download a full copy of the report here.

  • Keen to learn more?

    We are a team of multi-disciplinary researchers and designers with diverse backgrounds having studied 18 different disciplines. If you would like to learn more, please share your email via our ‘Say Hello’ tab and we will be in touch.

Our creative learning experience

Human-centred design aims to ignite curiosity.

Our work encourages students to harness their curiosity to help solve complex challenges, think creatively and build resilient, inclusive communities.

Local Peoples are helping redesign the future of learning, exploring ways we can work with students in secondary, vocational and tertiary education to ready them for the changing world of work.

How a design approach to education can help

  • Foster collaboration

    Often, a society’s most pressing challenges are its most complex and ambiguous. Solutions that properly address these challenges need to come through effective collaboration within education and the workplace. Collaborative workshops facilitated by Local Peoples provide students with the tools they need to create an inclusive environment, align on decisions, ideate quickly and develop clear next steps.

  • Teach creative problem-solving

    Creative problem-solving is a skill that can be applied across any discipline or industry. Design thinking workshops help students to reframe challenges, focus on the end user, generate new ideas and assess the feasibility of their solutions.

  • Find new career pathways

    As the nature of work changes rapidly, so do careers. How might we prepare young people for jobs that don’t yet exist, or for a market in which some jobs will cease to exist? How might we support students to become adaptable in the face of uncertainty? Future career workshops take students through activities that explore emerging trends, new ways of approaching the workforce, unique career opportunities and pathways from education to industry.

  • Improve student experience

    Student experience has a significant impact on student retention and engagement as well as overall health and wellbeing on campus. As we move towards an increasingly digitised learning process, we need to create opportunities for social interaction, student engagement and additional support services. Applying human-centred design to student experience helps us understand the wants and needs of domestic and international students and develop solutions that support existing services.

Local Peoples works, creates and plays on the lands of the Wurundjeri, Bunurong and Wathaurong peoples of the Kulin Nation, land which has never been ceded. We thank them them for caring for this land for over 40,000 years and recognise and pay our deepest respect to elders past, present and emerging. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

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Local Peoples works, creates and plays on the lands of the Wurundjeri, Bunurong and Wathaurong peoples of the Kulin Nation, land which has never been ceded. We thank them them for caring for this land for over 40,000 years and recognise and pay our deepest respect to elders past, present and emerging. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

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