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 50+ countries, contributed to 150+ publications, presented 180+ keynotes, and received 5 degrees from the United Kingdom, Finland, and Spain. In August 2021 he founded MED. Ver en español View in english Ver em português

MED is an international network hub strengthening inter-connectivity between educational practice and research.

Launched in Finland, MED is now realizing innovation and change management processes in public and private sector schools and universities.

The MED ethos is to ground innovation in evidence-based practice creating solutions that are usable, cost-effective, scalable, and sustainable.

MED is currently engaged with 2022 operations in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Spain, Italy, and Qatar. These include tasks on bilingual education, CLIL, interdisciplinary teaching and pedagogical innovation, phenomenon-based learning, and competence-building for career readiness.

Contact with MED is through David Marsh PhD FRSA: dm@davidmarsh.education

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Long-term European experience has been complemented with 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, Colombia, Peru).

Having been instrumental in developing processes for transforming curricular practices including language learning, he co-launched Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) under the auspices of the European Commission, and now works on developing and piloting CLIL models globally. His work has been recognized through various awards including the English-speaking Union (2008), Estonian Educational Sciences (2009), Doctor honoris causa at Valencian International University (2013), International Academic Board of the Inter-University Institute for Quality Practice (2016), Honorary Chair, Catedrático Extraordinario de Educación Bilingüe, UCAM, Spain (2017), and Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, London (2019).

His recent work extends from designing international school blueprints through to developing learning environments to accommodate the needs of digitally astute young people. Special current interests include OECD PISA focus on creativity, bilingual education, the impact of languages on mind and brain, and transformative education.

Recent publications (2022-2019) include contributions to The Bilingual Advantage: The Impact of Language Learning on Mind & Brain with Wendy Díaz-Pérez (Mexico), María Jesús Frigols Martín (Spain), Gisella Langé (Italy), Victor Pavón Vázquez (Spain), and Carlos Trindade (Brazil), published open-source by EduCluster Finland; Shaping the Future: A Framework for Building CLIL Environments in Higher Education; The Role of the First Language in Education; Enhancing Language Awareness and Competence-building through a Fusion of Phenomenon-based Learning and CLIL; Implementing Internationalization of Academia; and Managing Research & Higher Education Contexts through English.

Latest News from David 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

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