education is an essential instrument and catalyst for social transformation. WAAS has long recognized the urgent need for thinking beyond existing models of education to complement and enhance the social impact, reach, accessibility, quality and affordability of education globally. Systemic change is needed in every aspect of education—including knowledge delivery systems, evaluation, accreditation, content, pedagogy, and teacher training. Education is a remarkable organization that transmits the essence of humanity’s cumulative past learning to future generations in a systematic and condensed form. But the world faces enormous quantitative and qualitative gaps in education today that cannot be met by the existing system and models of education.
WAAS has undertaken an in-depth multi-year study to identify strategies to foster emergence of a global delivery system based on a new paradigm in education that bridges the quantitative and qualitative gaps in the current system, integrates fragmented disciplines, realigns abstract theory with the complexity of the real world, and is founded on a pedagogy that shifts the focus from standardized, mass production to customized, individualized learning designed to foster person-centered, value-based, independent thinking, and creativity.