Dr Anthony 'Skip' Basiel – Blended Learning Solutions

IEMA Webinar: 13 March 2026 Expert Panel Summary 13/03/2026

The https://iema.org.uk/ webinar event held on Friday 13 March did not have any bad luck. In fact, I felt lucky to be asked to contribute as an Expert Panel member to the discussion. The keynote speaker, Taungana Ndoro, Director of Communications & Advocacy for Zimbabwe, gave a powerful presentation. The infographic below takes you through the stages of building an intelligent and adaptive Education System (1). The Collaborative Intelligent & Initiative Framework (CIIF) is rooted in the needs identified in the world learning crisis (2). A living ecosystem paradigm seeks to replace the traditional curriculum structure (3). Starting with engagement the AI-driven CIFF engine builds through several stages to provide feedback on the evolution of the organic learning system (4). Geographic regional perspectives identify and accelerate national priorities (5). Instead of the traditional time frame of up to 7 years for curriculum reform, CIIF offers a real-time alternative (6). CIIF puts out a call to action to invite national and global participation (7). (Figure 1)

One of the questions emerging from this discussion was, ‘What are the skills needed for our future learners?’  In a book chapter on the University of the Future ( See https://tinyurl.com/FutureCapabilities), I have put forward this proposition:

An industrial learning society is where mass production is secured through mass education. The traditional transmission style of instructional design is, at best, sufficient for the skills of the 20th century. The skills and learning requirements of the 21st (and beyond) citizens are changing. Jobs of the future will be those that focus on intellectual capitalism, not commodity capitalism according to Kaku (2017). We are shifting from an industrial, production model to a knowledge-based economy where intellectual capital can grow from our new HE systems.

Dawson (2019) suggests: “expert thinking” means “the ability to solve new problems that cannot be solved by rules” “complex communication” meaning “the ability not only to transmit information, but to convey a particular interpretation of information to others in jobs like teaching, selling, and negotiation.” Snyder (2019) says, ‘(Levy and Murname), we have identified two classes of skill groups that are rising in demand and salary: non-routine cognitive analytic skills and non-routine cognitive interactive skills. Kaku (2017) goes on to emphasise that these soft skills and ease with technologies are some of the most important talents students should be mastering today for the future of tomorrow. [ See the QR code for the reference]

Please contact me ( abasiel@gmail.com ) if you have any questions or would like to collaborate on research or publication opportunities. Related research in AI can be found at the London School of Intelligent Computing and Technology (https://lsict.org.uk ).