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Center for Curriculum Redesign
AbbreviationCCR
Formation2011; 14 years ago (2011)
FounderCharles Fadel
Type501(c)(3) non-profit
PurposeEducation reform, Curriculum redesign
HeadquartersBoston, MA, United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Charles Fadel, Founder and Chairman
Websitecurriculumredesign.org

The Center for Curriculum Redesign (CCR) is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to making education more relevant by answering the question, “Why, What, and How should students learn for the age of Artificial Intelligence?” and then openly propagating its recommendations on a worldwide basis through deep, synthesized, and applied research and product development, including student curricula and professional development courses. CCR developed and uses the concept of “Education Engineering”– the use of precise methods, processes, and tools of engineering, applied to education – to make education goals and outcomes more explicit: deliberate, systematic, comprehensive, and demonstrable.

Due to its founder’s technology background and expertise in Artificial Intelligence, CCR also works at the intersection between education and AI.

History

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In 2009, as the Cisco founding partner at The Partnership for 21st Century Skills (or P21.org, now disbanded), CCR founder Charles Fadel played a pivotal role in the movement to define and emphasize the importance of teaching 21st century skills to all students.[1] With Bernie Trilling, another P21 senior fellow, and three other members of P21, they identified the set of skills that they refined into the 4Cs: Collaboration, Communication, Critical thinking, and Creativity. In 2011, Charles founded the Center of Curriculum Redesign [2] to further focus on what students should learn for the 21st Century, including, but not limited to, the 4Cs.

Four-Dimensional (4D) Framework

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One of the core outcomes of this work – achieved via the review and synthesis of 111 global frameworks and 861 research papers, using natural language processing (NLP) and orthogonality analysis[3] – was CCR’s Framework. It states that the “Knowledge Dimension,” which education has historically paid near-exclusive attention to, still matters greatly but must be modernized. This means redesigning educational standards for essential content, identifying the core concepts, and expanding knowledge. Explicitly:

  • Traditional disciplines must be modernized. For instance, mathematics needs to value and incorporate modern topics such as data science.
  • Modern disciplines need to be incorporated, particularly technology & engineering, social sciences, and entrepreneurship.
  • Interdisciplinarity must be kept in mind such as environmental literacy, digital literacy, systems thinking, etc. CCR mapped the Interdisciplinary Themes most relevant to each discipline.

The 4D Framework also states that knowledge must be complemented with three additional dimensions that feature 10 competencies: “Skills” (the 4 C’s: Collaboration, Communication, Critical thinking, and Creativity), “Character” (curiosity, courage, resilience, and ethics), and “Meta-learning” (metacognition and metaemotion).[4] [5] CCR then mapped the competencies to each academic discipline they determined to be most conducive to the discipline's development (e.g., history and ethics, mathematics and critical thinking).[6]

Extensions due to Artificial Intelligence

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In 2018, CCR’s founder taught the very first “Human Learning + Machine Learning” class (HT510a) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, while he was project director in the Laboratory for the Science of the Individual. CCR was an early adopter of Machine Learning (ML)/AI, using Knowledge Graphs in the refinements of its framework, and experimenting with concepts in Physics.

In 2024, due to the rapid progress of AI ushering in an age where simple responses come easily and may induce cognitive misering, CCR added motivational drivers for students to its framework: Identity (& Belonging); Agency (& Growth Mindset) and Purpose (& Passion).

The very rapid progress of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) since the introduction of ChatGPT 3.5 in November 2022, also led CCR to produce several papers about AI:

Publications

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CCR’s publications include four books

  • ‘’Education for the Age of AI,’’ 2024, ISBN 979-8871151150
  • ‘’Artificial Intelligence in Education: Promises and Implications for Teaching and Learning,’’ 2019, ISBN 978-1794293700
  • ‘’Four-Dimensional Education: The Competencies Learners Need to Succeed,’’ 2015, ISBN 978-1518642562
  • ‘’21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times,’’ with Bernie Trilling, 2009, ISBN 978-0470475386

and over 50 papers that explore its framework, its framework’s dimensions (Knowledge, Skills, Character, & Meta-Learning) and their emphasis due to AI, its modern Drivers, and implementation of its recommendations through curriculum, courseware, pedagogy, assessments, and policy.

References

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  1. ^ Trilling, Bernie, and Charles Fadel. 21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times. Jossey Bass, 2009. ISBN 978-0470475386
  2. ^ https://www.linkedin.com/company/center-for-curriculum-redesign/about/
  3. ^ Center for Curriculum Redesign, Redesigning the Curriculum for a 21st Century Education, 2020.
  4. ^ "Curriculum Redesign May Be Just What Higher Education Needs". Chief Learning Officer. Sep 9, 2016. Retrieved Jan 31, 2025.
  5. ^ Tucker, Marc (Feb 25, 2016). "Charles Fadel on What Students Need to Know and Be Able to Do (Opinion)". Education Week. Retrieved Jan 31, 2025.
  6. ^ Center for Curriculum Redesign, Embedding Competencies within Disciplines: Deliberately, Explicitly, and Systematically, June 2021.

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