Networks of learning spaces.
At all times of life people should have meaningful quality educational opportunities. Learning should be lifelong, life-wide, with weight and recognition given to adult education. We should employ inclusive design principles and begin any planning with a focus on serving those most marginalized and those settings that are most fragile.
Healthy educational ecosystems connect natural, built and virtual sites of learning. We should better appreciate the biosphere as a learning space. Digital learning spaces are now integral to educational ecosystems and should be developed to support the public, inclusive and common purposes of education. Open access and open-source platforms, with strong protections for student and teacher data, should be prioritized.
Government capacity for the public financing and regulation of education should be strengthened. We should build the capacity of states to set and enforce standards and norms for educational provisions that are responsive, equitable and uphold human rights.
The right to education should be broadened. We are no longer well served by framing the right to education simply around schooling. Everyone everywhere should have a right to lifelong learning. We should support the right to information and the right to culture as necessary enabling components of the right to education. A right to connectivity must be built in.