Sustaining+the+Vision

=Sustaining the Vision in 2025=

====Learning 2025 not only wants to help you develop your Curriculum and Pedagogy along with your Learning Spaces, but also wants to help you learn and develop how to Sustain the Vision. We believe that Professional Development, Partnerships, Funding, and Open Content Resources are the key elements to Suatining your Vision. New elements may be added as they become key to maintaining a vision. We believe that without proper sustainability, much work on Curriculum and Pedagogy along with Learning Spaces will be for not.====

====Professional Development is one part of our vision for education in 2025. We feel that Professional Development is key to helping teachers and administrators be efficient and effective facilitators of learning. They will need to learn new skills, strategies, and technologies due to advances in Curriculum and Learning Spaces. Learning 2025’s vision requires ongoing, interactive professional developments based on the needs of individual schools and teachers.====

====Our vision of education relies heavily upon the incorporation of Web 2.0 tools into daily learning. Therefore educators will need access to professional development to expand their knowledge of the tools and their uses. Along with formal Professional Developments, educators will need time to collaborate on ideas and concerns. Just as Learning 2025’s vision for learners predominantly rests upon collaboration, so does our vision for educators. Their skills and knowledge will expand through collaboration and frequent peer observation.====

====Learning 2025 Vision's for Sustainability relies heavily upon Partnerships. The idea of a Partnership has been implemented into education in the past; however with technological advances, we believe the possibilities for forming partnerships are now almost limitless. Learning 2025 wants to assist you with forming, maintaining, and promoting a successful partnership by helping you build a strong foundation for your partnership to thrive. We feel that the type of partnership your educational system forms is based on the individual needs, desires, and wants of your learners. Learning 2025 believes that partnerships between local schools, colleges, and universities along with partnerships between schools and businesses or organizations are both beneficial to your school and students but also to your community. Global partnerships are a great way to broaden your learners’ view of the world through interactions with students, businesses, and organizations.====

====Funding is another key ingredient to Sustaining a Vision. A plan has to be made on how to finance the programs, projects, and technologies of learning in 2025. Currently, financing is major area of concern for many educational systems. With that in mind, we would like to offer assistance in allocating funds for your educational system. Researching and applying for educational grants focused on projects and technologies your school is wanting to implement is a great source of funding. Some grants are annual and have to be applied for every year, while others can be renewed every so many years as long as your school has upheld its portion of the grant. Educational discounts, local business donations, family contributions, and partnerships are other great ways of alleviating financial burdens.====

====Finally, Open Content Resources is the the final portion to Learning 2025’s Vision for Sustainability. Relating to collaboration and funding, Open content Resources provide for the creation of open source software and develop tools, promote open coursework and projects, and develop open standards for learning. In addition to these activities, through sharing they help to lower costs of resources, develop critical thinking skills of learners, and improve the quality of content. They are also immense tools for promoting lifelong learning and provide options for teaching and learning.====