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September 23, 2025

Future of Education

French EdTech: between pedagogical promise and the challenge of inclusion — what future for digital education?

EdTech gems… but a fragmented reality Education is undergoing a profound transformation, and the French EdTech ecosystem has never been more dynamic. The recent article published by Bpifrance, highlighting seven promising young startups, perfectly illustrates this momentum. From apps like Plume, which sparks…

July 7, 2025

Future of Education

GAFAM, Youth Mental Health and EdTech: Between Informational Rivalry and Educational Responsibility

The GAFAM companies are seeking to strengthen their presence in the education sector, particularly through initiatives related to young people’s mental health. These actions, although presented as altruistic, are part of a broader strategy of informational conquest and the consolidation of their influence…

June 11, 2025

Entrepreneur

What If We Changed How We Measure Progress?

Thoughts inspired by an article by Diane Coyle about the Rebuilding of Economics in the Age of Digitalization and Climate Crisis When Numbers No Longer Reflect Reality Since World War II, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been the undisputed benchmark for…

May 15, 2025

Future of Education

The Future of Education: How EdTech Startups Are Redefining Learning for the 21st Century

Education stands at a crossroads. Faced with the globalization of knowledge, a rapid shift in skill requirements, and a persistent digital divide, it must reinvent itself. In this context, EdTech startups — young companies blending technology and pedagogy — emerge as the pioneers of…

May 30, 2024

Future of Education

The educational tinkerers (part 2)

The Mazes of Innovation Therefore, we must innovate to educate better, longer, and everywhere. Education is first and foremost a public good, and states have taken on the mission of ensuring broad and equal access to knowledge for all. Most states have shown…

May 29, 2024

Future of Education

The educational tinkerers (part 1)

Innovation in education has many faces: those of students and teachers in classrooms in Tallinn, Nairobi, or Bobigny, those of educators in research laboratories in Belo Horizonte or London, and those of refugees in camps in Sudan. For everyone, education is the answer to…

August 31, 2023

Open Education Challenge

The distance class : less is more (Part 3)

Some tips Avoid reinventing content Do not confuse your learners with an overambitious use of third party tools and services Use a regular pattern of communication to help establish a sense of community Maintain student attention during content delivery Extend the life of a…

August 30, 2023

Open Education Challenge

The distance class : less is more (Part 2)

How long should a distance class last? Can we keep the 50-minute lessons or should we offer shorter durations … supplemented by home work? Those who experience extreme teleworking these days know the fatigue generated and the concentration required by repetitive videoconferences, more…

August 29, 2023

Open Education Challenge

The distance class : less is more (Part 1)

The teacher was the physical referent of the class, the permanent facilitator, the moderator. She divided her time between the school where she taught, participated in meetings with her colleagues, received parents and her home where she prepared his lessons, corrected homework.

July 12, 2023

Open Education Challenge

Learning in 2145

My brother and I like Alex Beard very much! And especially the way he looks at education as “work in progress”, his humility and sense of humor when he makes us think about the future of learning. His last tryptic – a radio series…

July 1, 2023

Open Education Challenge

Education : The more it changes, the more it’s the same thing (part 3)

The role of technology Far from establishing a distance, digital solutions can help bridge a gap between less and more participatory students, enabling the teacher to dedicate more time to those who need it most. Far from dissimulating the human side of…

June 30, 2023

Open Education Challenge

Education : The more it changes, the more it’s the same thing (part 2)

What should educational continuity look like when there is no school? To a motivated, respected teacher who is capable of animating a distance course in an intuitive way by not reproducing the traditional model of the course “one against many” but of the…

June 29, 2023

Open Education Challenge

Education : The more it changes, the more it’s the same thing (part 1)

Back in the fourth century Saint Augustine defined education as “a process of posing problems and seeking answers through conversation” As we are immersed in the COVID-19 crisis, we realize that education remains more than ever the art of posing the right questions.

May 31, 2023

EXP-editions

Discover EXPeditions

The Nobel Prize winner Amatrya Sen wrote that, “Knowledge is learning from the other across the border”. Knowledge is the main component that enables individuals and communities to grow. Learning from the other requires the conviction that knowledge stems from dialogue. All our efforts should…

May 30, 2023

Open Education Challenge

Innovate for education

Education is no longer about curricula and grades It is about innovation, creativity, technology and… entrepreneurship Our mission is also to design innovative digital learning solutions to better respond to education challenges in terms of efficiency, social equity and cultural diversity…