Fostering 21st Century Learning in Cities and Regions – Six Organisational Issues

Session outline: In order to move into the knowledge age in the 21st century, a city or region will need to consistently innovate, renew and analyse its performance as a learning city/region. This session is a summary of many of the organisational issues raised in the book ‘Learning Cities, Learning Regions, Learning Communities’, and of some of the follow-up exercises recommended in the Long Learn Learning Materials. A series of assignments and exercises leads the learner to an understanding of the issues and transformation processes that any city or regional management will need to consider in order to create a city or region for the future. It includes the processes of decision making, joined up local government, the city as a learning organisation, the city’s institutions as learning organisations, the development of continuous improvement programmes for administrators and the development of an outward-looking vision.