Around the world in education innovations: The HundrED Global Collection for 2024

Around the world in education innovations: The HundrED Global Collection for 2024

This week’s post highlights the latest additions to the HundrED Global collection of education innovations and shares links to some of the panels from the HundrED Innovation Summit held in Helsinki in the beginning of November. HundrED was established in 2016 to highlight the importance of innovation in education, and since that time it has been adding 100 education innovations a year to their global collection. Along with the announcement of this year’s innovations, the Summit included presentations and panel discussions that are available to stream online, How can education innovations change systems? (with Olli-Pekka Heinonen, Leslie Udwin, Asmaa Alfadala, Marjo Kyllönen and Lauren Ziegler) and Embracing the Messy Middle: Examples from the Field (with Jorge Elô, Janica Magat, Md. Shefatul Islam, and Romana Kropilova, moderated by IEN Founder Thomas Hatch).

         What is happening in the world of education innovation? HundrED’s report on the latest 100 innovations in education added to their global collection reflects the explosion of work in education technology as well as interest in AI spawned by the release last fall of ChatGPT. The 22 innovations focusing on Ed Tech and 4 on AI make up over 25% of the 2024 collection. Recent concerns about health in the wake of the COVID-19 school closures are also reflected in the collection as 10 different innovations focus on some aspect of wellbeing such as mental health, self-esteem, compassion, physical health, and mindfulness. At the same time, concerns about long-standing issues are also reflected in the inclusion of thirteen innovations designed to support professional development and thirteen dedicated to addressing “future skills” such as critical thinking.  

This year’s innovations have been established in 47 different countries, with the most coming from Asia (32%), including more than half from India. 62% of the innovations are in operation in two or more countries, and one, Girl Rising, operates in 144 countries.

This year’s selections for the global collection include: Canopy Nepal; Career Quest (India); Sustainability Compass from Compass Education; Konnect (Bangladesh); Livebook (Iran); In their Shoes (Spain); Partners for Possibility (South Africa); Sapieduca (Brazil); Street Racket (Switzerland);