Convergence education—an international perspective

Abstract

The US National Science Foundation defines convergence as the deep integration of knowledge, techniques, and expertise from multiple fields to form new and expanded frameworks for addressing scientific and societal challenges and opportunities. Because convergence research is progressing at a rapid clip, the quick evolution of non-traditional perspectives that it engenders will present a number of challenges/opportunities to education. NSF, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine; and the University of Southern California sponsored a workshop, with global participation, to explore actions that would facilitate convergence in education. A descriptive of the workshop and the key action items it identified are presented.

Methodology for Assessing the Convergence of Educational Content and Requirements of Employers for a Convergent Learning Model

“…Следует отметить тенденцию сближения (сходимости) подходов к подготовке специалистов из разных предметных областей, что указывает на переход к модели конвергентного образования. Открытая информационнообразовательная среда с интеллектуальными механизмами актуализации контента и персонализации процесса подготовки специалистов является основным инструментарием в плане внедрения концепции конвергентного образования [4].…”

Principles of convergence in nature and society and their application: from nanoscale, digits, and logic steps to global progress

“…Convergence has been embraced at NSF after 2017: “Convergence is the deep integration of knowledge, techniques, and expertise to form new and expanded frameworks for addressing compelling scientific and societal challenges and opportunities.” Examples of ideas and programs are “Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier,” “Big Idea: Growing Convergent Research,” and “Convergence Accelerators.” An example of education and research center is the “National Convergence Technology Center” ( www.connectedtech.org ) that leads the Convergence College Network (CCN), a group of 50+ community colleges and universities from across the country that shares resources and best practices at both regularly scheduled meetings and special one-off webinars. Convergence opportunities in education and research were surveyed by Herr et al ( 2019 ).…”

“…connectedtech.org) that leads the Convergence College Network (CCN), a group of 50+ community colleges and universities from across the country that shares resources and best practices at both regularly scheduled meetings and special one-off webinars. Convergence opportunities in education and research were surveyed by Herr et al (2019).…”

The Convergence Model of Education for Sustainability in the Transition to Digital Economy

“…The evolution of the education system in the world goes hand in hand with the emergence of new information and telecommunication technologies, mobile communication systems, the development of the Internet and the Internet of Things, intelligent and cloud technologies, virtual and augmented reality technologies, big data, digital platforms and ecosystems, etc. The main hypothesis of the article is that the evolutionary development of the generally accepted technology of competence-based learning within the framework of the 4th industrial revolution and the transition to the digital economy leads to the need to introduce a convergent approach for training specialists [23,24]. The convergent learning model complements the competence model and determines the use of the principles of convergence of competencies for specialists in different fields of knowledge when organizing and conducting the educational process in an open information and educational environment [25][26][27].…”