Will they be the learning management systems that are serving millions of learners in K12 and universities?

Will they come from the many edtech unicorns who are blazing a trail in areas like online tutoring, language learning or study support?

Or might they emerge from some of the consumer platforms and services that currently serve very different users in very different markets.

In Season 3 of HaileyburyX on Soundcloud Peter Thomas and Lauren Sayer sidestep the predictable and take a deep dive to look at who might be the new giants of educational technology.

We’ll be talking to companies, educators and commentators who see the edtech landscape in new and interesting ways.

Disruption was put firmly on the agenda of boardrooms around the globe with the publication of Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma and the introduction of the terms 'sustaining' and 'disruptive' innovation.

Over the 20 years since the book was published, the Christensen Institute, amongst others, are exploring education as the new site for digital disruption. Should schools focus on sustaining innovations that are easy to implement, fit within the constraints of budgets and scarce staff time and that can benefit students for years to come, or do they pursue disruptive innovations that can fundamentally change the nature of education?

Our disruptEd event focuses on one aspect of disruption - teachers of the future - and asks what should the teacher of the future know and do and how do we prepare them for the changing educational landscape to come?

Most of the effort in online learning, especially in a school setting, is focused on effective pedagogy.

But we think what has been neglected is the experiential character of learning spaces and how they can create enticing, compelling and engaging experiences.

The technology platforms we use are content delivery vehicles - whether the content is courses or video conferences. They are not built with enticement in mind.

Drawing on our backgrounds in experience and learning design, performance and on the idea of the ludic - a playful, spontaneous, ironic and absurd experience or narrative - we invite you to enticEd, a serious event with unserious means.

Or perhaps the other way around.

Read our story about enticEd on Medium

A short form conference exploring the emerging microcredential ecosystem and looking at the possible futures for microcredentials and how they might reconfigure the relationship between schools, universities and employers.

This event was sold out but postponed.
It is now a podcast on Soundcloud.

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Our approach to online learning design is to adopt, adapt and action the set of values, principles and methods of the Agile movement that originated in software development.

At our first agilEd short-form conference we will bring together technology, education and industry practitioners to explore the value of Agile in learning design. We will also hear from Haileybury teachers on their experience of the Agile Learning Design microcredential.

Education is an industry infused by innovation - in teaching methods, curriculum materials, professional development and edtech - and we want to help new and exciting innovations to surface.

Our ignitEd event is a day of short pitch presentations from education innovators intended to inform, inspire and ignite new thinking. The best pitch, as judged by the audience and our expert judges, will win the HaileyburyX ignitEd Prize.

Creativity is not something that only relates to drama, music, art and other creative subjects. Creative thinking should run through all of our students' lives, and our school curricula, infusing the way human and natural sciences are learned.

creatEd brings together educators, creative professionals and business leaders to look at the value of creative thinking from the perspective of pedagogy, practice and professional life.

We will explore the value of imagination, intuition, perseverance, experimentation, critical thinking and collaboration and how we can teach for creativity using pedagogies and practices that cultivate creativity in young people.

The Haileybury Explicit Instruction programme has been delivered to schools across Australia with outstanding success.

Our first instructEd event consists of presentations about the programme’s underpinnings, practical sessions on elements of the approach, and the opportunity to ask questions of educators experienced in explicit instruction.

instructEd forms part of our launch of the programme as a blended learning experience and can be counted towards the new Haileybury Microcredentials in Explicit Instruction.

One of the success stories in modern educational practice, blended learning can deliver powerful benefits for students but can create challenges for those planning and designing blended learning, and for institutions who need to upskill educators to adopt blended learning.

As with many innovations in education, a key challenge is creating a shift of mindset that can help educators make principled decisions about why, how and when to adopt blended learning models. As the Christensen Institute says "reinventing your instructional model is a lot harder than adopting a new technology that enhances your current practices."

Our blendEd event focuses not on the mechanics of blended learning but on the ways that insitutitions can create the kind of mindset shift that successful adoption of blended learning - that sees student-centered learning as a positive and transformational force - requires. 

Emerging from the world of software, the concept of a hack - a creative, improvisational, elegant solution to a difficult problem - has gained wider currency in the form of hackathons, not just for software but for anything from culture change to sustainability.

Our hackEd event addresses some of the challenges of k-12 education in a free-flowing, highly collaborative, experimental and fast-moving environment.

We will bring together a multidisciplinary group of educators, designers, agile practitioners and technologists to create real solutions to real problems, while building a hackEd collaborative education innovation community. 

Ed. events are part of the HaileyburyX mission to build online courses not just for Haileybury students, but for ELC-12 students anywhere in the world, and to help our teachers, and the whole school community, learn about how we can best use technology to deliver outstanding learning experiences.

Read more about some of the issues we are thinking about on our HaileyburyX Medium publication