ed3 LEARNING EXPERIENCES
Learning designed for the human side of the future.
Explore the subjects and themes that can become part of an ed3 learning experience — spanning disciplines, cultures, and real-world contexts and shaped around the interests, priorities, and learning goals of participating institutions and learners.
At ed3 International, Learning Experiences are developed and delivered in collaboration with schools, colleges and universities, communities, governments, and organizations.
The areas below illustrate what is possible. ed3 Learning Experiences can also be co-created around the interests, priorities, context, and learning goals of participating institutions and learner groups.
Language & Communication
Theme-based language and communication learning connected to ed3 subject areas and tailored to diverse learning, professional, and institutional contexts.
English/French for Global & Professional Contexts
Specialized language learning integrated with academic, professional, and real-world subject areas.
Intercultural Communication
Developing the awareness, communication strategies, and intercultural capabilities needed to work, study, and collaborate effectively across cultures.
English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) for Educators
Specialized language learning for educators teaching academic or disciplinary content in English in multilingual and international learning environments.
STEM, Healthcare & Human Performance
Experiential learning connecting science, technology, health, and human performance with real-world inquiry, innovation, and practice.
STEM & Emerging Technologies
Explore science, technology, engineering, and emerging innovations through experiential learning, applied inquiry, and real-world challenges.
Healthcare & the Human Experience
Explore healthcare through both scientific and human perspectives, connecting health, care, communication, innovation, and the lived experience of patients and practitioners.
Immersive Sports Performance & Wellbeing
Explore the science and psychology of human performance through sport, integrating physical and mental performance, self-regulation, resilience, recovery, and whole-person wellbeing.
AI, Digital Futures & Creative Technologies
Exploring how artificial intelligence and emerging digital technologies are reshaping knowledge, creativity, communication, work, and society.
AI & Cybersecurity
Explore artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, digital risk, and responsible technology through real-world applications, emerging challenges, and ethical questions.
Data Analytics & Machine Learning
Explore how data is collected, interpreted, and transformed into insight, and how machine learning is changing decision-making across fields and industries.
Creativity, Transmedia & Human Expression
Explore storytelling, animation, transmedia, and creative practice while examining how technology is changing the ways we create, communicate, and express ideas.
AI & Music
Explore the evolving relationship between artificial intelligence and music through creativity, composition, production, technology, and questions about human authorship and expression.
Robotics & Ethics
Explore advances in robotics and automation while examining the ethical, social, and human questions surrounding how intelligent machines are designed, deployed, and integrated into society.
Management, Finance & Global Practices
Exploring the knowledge, practices, and decision-making capabilities needed to lead, manage, and navigate an interconnected and changing world.
Management & Leadership
Explore contemporary approaches to management and leadership through real-world challenges, organizational practice, collaboration, and responsible decision-making.
Financial Literacy
Build practical understanding of money, saving, investing, credit, debt, budgeting, and financial decision-making for life and work.
Global Practices: The Kaizen Mindset
Explore Kaizen in its cultural context and discover how the principles of continuous improvement can be applied to organizations, leadership, work, and everyday life.
Energy, Resources & Global Challenges
Exploring the resources, systems, and global challenges shaping our shared future through scientific, economic, technological, social, and policy perspectives.
Energy & Critical Minerals
Explore the changing global energy landscape and the growing importance of critical minerals through scientific, technological, economic, and geopolitical perspectives.
Food & Water Security
Examine the interconnected challenges of food and water security, including access, production, distribution, resource management, innovation, and the pressures affecting communities around the world.
Climate Change
Explore the scientific, social, economic, and policy dimensions of climate change and the choices, innovations, and responses shaping communities and societies worldwide.
Built Environments & the Circular Economy
Explore how buildings, cities, materials, infrastructure, and human systems interact—and how systems thinking and circular approaches can inform the way we design, build, use, and reimagine the environments in which we live.
Global Citizenship & Community Engagement
ENGAGE
Community engagement is more than volunteering. ENGAGE invites participants to examine complex local and global social issues, understand different forms of action and contribution, and consider their own role in creating positive social impact. Through engagement, reflection, and meaningful encounters with others, participants are encouraged to develop a Global Citizenship Mindset, a stronger sense of social responsibility, and greater awareness of how their choices and actions can contribute to the communities and world around them.
Through experiential learning, community encounters, reflection, and interdisciplinary inquiry, participants connect social issues with fields such as international relations, business, communication, public policy, and other areas of study and professional practice.
Engagement may take many forms
Advocacy · Awareness-building · Volunteering & Direct Service · Fundraising · Non-profit and Community Collaboration · Communications & Campaign Support
Human Capabilities that may be developed
Critical Thinking & Reflection · Communication & Dialogue · Intercultural Competence · Empathy & Global Citizenship · Ethical Reasoning & Responsible Decision-Making · Leadership & Collaboration · Self-Awareness & Personal Growth
Indigenous Language, Culture & Heritage
Supporting community-led language, culture, and heritage priorities while strengthening local capacity for the work to continue over time.
ed3 works alongside Indigenous communities and organizations to co-develop initiatives grounded in community priorities, local knowledge, and cultural context. The nature of each collaboration is determined by the community and may evolve over time as needs, priorities, and opportunities change.
Areas of Co-Creation May Include
Language Revitalization & Learning
Supporting community-defined approaches to language learning, use, transmission, and revitalization across generations.
Heritage & Living Memory
Supporting the documentation, digitization, interpretation, and sharing of oral histories, community knowledge, archives, and other forms of living heritage.
Culture & Knowledge Continuity
Supporting initiatives that strengthen cultural knowledge, practices, storytelling, intergenerational learning, and opportunities for knowledge transmission.
Community Capacity & Sustainability
Supporting local leadership, educator and administrator development, resource creation, planning, and systems that help initiatives continue and grow within the community.
ed3 GRAND TOUR SERIES
The world becomes the classroom.
The ed3 Grand Tour Series offers immersive, place-based and comparative learning experiences that connect ideas with the people, cultures, institutions, industries, communities, and environments that bring them to life.
Each Grand Tour is built around a compelling theme or global challenge and brings together perspectives from across disciplines. Through expert-led learning, site visits, cultural encounters, applied experiences, and reflection, participants explore how ideas, practices, and challenges take shape differently across places and contexts.
The goal is not simply to travel, but to learn through place, encounter, comparison, and reflection—broadening perspectives and creating the conditions for new understanding to emerge.
What Could an ed3 Grand Tour Explore?
ed3 Grand Tours can be developed around themes, disciplines, and global challenges that benefit from being examined across different places and perspectives.
Sustainability & Global Challenges
Explore how different cities and communities respond to sustainability, climate, food and water security, heritage, tourism, resilience, and other interconnected challenges.
Innovation & Emerging Technologies
Examine how AI, robotics, entrepreneurship, research, and emerging technologies are shaping work, society, and human experience across different innovation ecosystems.
Global Practices & Ways of Thinking
Explore ideas and practices within the cultures and environments in which they developed—from Kaizen and continuous improvement in Japan to different approaches to leadership, design, innovation, community, and human development around the world.
The Journey Is Part of the Learning
Moving between places creates opportunities to compare perspectives, question assumptions, encounter different ways of thinking and living, and consider how ideas take shape within different cultural, social, economic, and environmental contexts.
Where could learning take you?
ed3 Grand Tours can be co-developed around the interests, priorities, disciplines, and learning goals of participating institutions and learner groups.
