David Marsh PhD FRSA Education Design David Marsh is an internationally renowned expert on educational innovation, strategy and practice who has contributed to educational advancement in Finland over 25 years. He has experience of tasks in six continents, contributed to 170+ publications, presented 180+ keynotes, and received 5 degrees from the United Kingdom, Finland, and Spain. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London, Honorary Chair in Bilingual Education at the Catholic University of Murcia, Spain (2017), Coordinator of the Academic Advisory Council, EduCluster Finland, University of Jyväskylä Group, and CEO of MED, Finland. Español English Português

Key areas of interest in 2025 include

  • upskilling teachers in bilingual/plurilingual education and CLIL
  • building future-ready competences ad transferable skills for working life
  • designing methodologies to enhance wellbeing of young people
  • launching post-graduate career development upskilling programme
  • applying generative AI models for assisting teachers
  • interdisciplinary teaching and learning
  • evaluating large-scale research funding applications

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David Marsh has long-term experience in European Union countries that has been complemented by assignments in Africa (Ethiopia, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa), Central & East Asia (Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea), Iceland, India, Kosovo, Middle East (KSA, UAE, Turkey, Qatar), Russia, Southeast Asia (Brunei, Hong Kong, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam), North America, (Mexico, USA), and South America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru).

During 2024 MED was active with tasks in Australia, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Qatar, Spain, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and Vietnam. 2024 Publishing has included Cambridge University Press, Routledge & Wiley.

Contact with MED is through David Marsh PhD FRSA: [email protected]

Latest News from David Marsh

CLIL, Zeitgeist, and Learning Spaces

May 5, 2025David Marsh

Realizing Life Potential in a Fast-changing World

December 18, 2024David Marsh

Introduction to CLIL for Parents and Young People redux podcast

October 27, 2024David Marsh

AI-Generated Podcast – Research on Bilingual Brain

October 11, 2024David Marsh

Re-visiting Interdisciplinarity in Higher Education

September 18, 2024David Marsh

Video vignettes on active learning in higher education

July 4, 2024David Marsh

The Bilingual School Conundrum

April 6, 2024David Marsh

Metrics that Matter – Thoughts on the Finnish PISA 2022 Outcomes (Podcast 10 min)

December 20, 2023David Marsh

7 Things about Finnish Education that Drive Success Globally

December 20, 2023David Marsh

Designing Future Pathways in a Tanzanian School Context

November 14, 2023David Marsh

FIL Guadalajara Book Fair 2023

November 14, 2023David Marsh

Thoughts on the AI Education Discussion

October 24, 2023David Marsh

Educational Scenarios and Generative AI

September 20, 2023David Marsh

Zeitenwende and Future Thinking

July 22, 2023David Marsh

Finland-Mexico Foresight Alliance

June 18, 2023David Marsh

Thinking Foresight

May 19, 2023David Marsh

GPT-4 Tsunami of cheating or waterfalls of opportunity?

April 10, 2023David Marsh

ChatGPT and AI Language Processors

February 17, 2023David Marsh

Talking CLIL with Javier Barbero Andrés

January 7, 2023David Marsh

Future-proofing Schools using the 360° Quality Enhancement Process

August 12, 2022David Marsh

Podcast: Reflections on the CLIL Journey

April 16, 2022David Marsh

Interdisciplinarity – The New Educational Zeitgeist

January 20, 2022David Marsh

Am I going to be replaced by AI?

August 8, 2021David Marsh

Recalibrating Post-pandemic Higher Education

July 16, 2021David Marsh

The Sound of Silence

June 7, 2021David Marsh

Learning Language the Natural Way

March 7, 2021David Marsh

2021 Making Change Happen

January 6, 2021David Marsh

Remote learning during the pandemic: Things we need to strengthen

December 6, 2020David Marsh

The Value and Future of Language Education

October 23, 2020David Marsh

Remote learning: Covid-19 reported student experience

September 20, 2020David Marsh

Enabling Global Competences

August 6, 2020David Marsh

Skill Rhymes with CLIL

April 6, 2020David Marsh

Global Positioning Generation Z (GPZ)

March 8, 2020David Marsh

Implementing Internationalization of Academia

September 18, 2019David Marsh

Brazil Bilingual Education Summit 2019

June 23, 2019David Marsh

A Signature Pedagogy

April 20, 2019David Marsh

The Role of the First Language in English Medium Instruction

March 15, 2019David Marsh

5th Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools International-Research-to-Practice Conference, Astana, Kazakhstan

November 16, 2018David Marsh

The Guadalajara Colloquium on Internationalizing Implementation of Academia

October 13, 2018David Marsh

Shaping the Future: A KDI Framework for Building CLIL Environments in Higher Education

August 20, 2018David Marsh

A Think Tank on Implementing Internationalization of Academia: Teaching, Learning & Research through English takes place June – September 2018

April 10, 2018David Marsh

CLIL and Phenomenon-based Learning 2018

February 9, 2018David Marsh

Design Team for international transversal projects through English for 15-16 year olds on empowerment, security and lifestyle choices in Jalisco, Mexico

December 15, 2017David Marsh

Autumn International Schools Conference Plenary, Cambridge Assessment, University of Cambridge

November 14, 2017David Marsh

Education Sans Frontières

October 4, 2017David Marsh

David Marsh and Dr. Wendy Díaz Pérez interviewed in Guadalajara, Mexico

September 7, 2017David Marsh

TEDx Education 2018

September 7, 2017David Marsh

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