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Key messages || Executive summary || Table of contents || How to obtain this publication || Other Information Executive summary Why such interest in learning? Over recent years, learning has moved increasingly centre stage for a range of powerful reasons that resonate politically as well as educationally across many countries, as outlined by Dumont and Istance (Chapter 1). These define the aims of this important volume from the work on Innovative Learning Environments produced by OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI ). OECD societies and economies have experienced a profound transformation from reliance on an industrial to a knowledge base.

Similar factors help to explain the strong focus on measuring learning outcomes (including the Programme for International Student Assessment [PISA ]) over the past couple of decades, which in turn generates still greater attention on learning. Complete executive summary Table of contents ForewordExecutive summaryChapter 1.