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Knowmad Society explores the future of learning, work, and how we relate with each other in a world driven by accelerating change, value networks, and the rise of knowmads.

WHAT IS KNOWMAD SOCIETY?

This book explores the future of learning, work and how we relate with each other in a world where we are now asked to design our own futures. Nine authors from three continents, ranging from academics to business leaders, share their visions for the future of learning and work, and provide insight into what they are doing now to help drive positive outcomes.

Key topics covered include: reframing learning and human development; required skills and competencies; rethinking schooling; flattening organizations; co-creating learning; and new value creation in organizations.

WHO ARE KNOWMADS?

Knowmads are nomadic knowledge workers –creative, imaginative, and innovative people who can work with almost anybody, anytime, and anywhere. Industrial society is giving way to knowledge and innovation work. Whereas industrialization required people to settle in one place to perform a very specific role or function, the jobs associated with knowledge and information workers have become much less specific concerning task and place. Moreover, technologies allow for these new paradigm workers to work within a broader options of space, including “real,” virtual, or many blended. Knowmads can instantly reconfigure and recontextualize their work environments, and greater mobility is creating new opportunities.

OUR APPROACH

This volume explores knowmad society in terms of socioeconomic evolution from industrial, information-based society to knowledge-based society, to a creative, context-driven Knowmad Society. Educational and organizational implications are explored, experiences are shared, and the book concludes with a powerful message of "what's it going to take" for nations and cultures to succeed in Knowmad Society.

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Knowmad Society is published by Education Futures LLC with additional support from Seats2Meet.com. ISBN (print edition): 978-0615742090

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AUTHORS

Nine co-authors with perspectives from three continents.

John W. Moravec

Editor, co-author (US)
  

John is a futurist, co-initiator of the Invisible Learning project, and the editor of Education Futures. John's research and action scholarship agenda are focused on exploring the convergence of globalization, innovation society, and accelerating change; and, building positive futures for human systems which are approaching an increasingly complex and ambiguous era.

Thieu Besselink

Co-author (NL)
  

Thieu is founder of The Learning Lab, a think-tank for social change. He is a learning innovator, researcher, philosopher, and social entrepreneur. He teaches social entrepreneurship, action research, system innovation, and leadership learning at Amsterdam University and Utrecht University.

Edwin de Bree

Co-author (NL)
  

Edwin is an organizational survival guide, and helps companies survive the post-hierarchic network society. He is a co-founder of the hybrid project, Entrepreneurial Organizations, and is also co-founder of the De Koers Sudbury-type school in the Netherlands.

Cristóbal Cobo

Co-author (CL)
 

Cristóbal is a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. He coordinates research on innovation, open educational practices and the future of the Internet (EU-FP7), and blogs at e-rgonomic.

Christel Hartkamp-Bakker

Co-author (NL)
  

Christel is co-founder of De Kampanje, a Sudbury-type school in Amersfoort, Netherlands. She has been actively involved in the European Democratic Education Community as a council-member, and developed her expertise on the wide variety of approaches that exist between democratic schools.

Ronald van den Hoff

Co-author (NL)
  

Ronald is co-owner of CDEF Holding BV, and maintains a portfolio of companies active on the borderline of hospitality industry and the world of social media. CDEF operates innovative, disruptive Blue Ocean formulas such as the co-working and meeting centers Seats2meet.com, the virtual eco-systeem Mindz.com, the Internet communication company Cyberdigma BV and the Meeting Plaza convention centers.

Christine Renaud

Co-author (CA)
  

Christine is a Montreal-based social entrepreneur who is passionate about self-directed learning and community-based learning. As the CEO of E-180, she is responsible for managing the educational direction, sales, funding, partnerships, and the community building behind E-180.

Pieter Spinder

Co-author (NL)
  

Despite being expelled from secondary school, Pieter ultimately earned a bachelors degree in marketing. He then started several different companies, including Office Dump (second-hand photocopier sales) and The Marketing Factory, a marketing consultancy.

Bianca Stokman

Co-author (NL)
 

Bianca has a background in organizational psychology, human resource sciences, and also studied voice at the Conservatory of Utrecht. In 2011, she started her own business, Messing & Groef, as a trainer and coach for personal and leadership development. She is fascinated by the biological foundations of human behavior and learning.

Gary Hart

Afterword contributor (US)

Gary has been extensively involved in international law and business, as a strategic advisor to major U.S. corporations, and as a teacher, author and lecturer. Gary Hart represented the State of Colorado in the United States Senate from 1975 to 1987. In 1984 and 1988, he was a candidate for his party’s nomination for U.S. President.

The emerging Knowmad Society has profound opportunities and even more profound public responsibilities.

Sen. Gary Hart

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New value networks need virtual and physical locations to meet and to collaborate. The office as we know it is gone. The traditional school, library and meeting center will follow.

Ronald van den Hoff

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