eduScrum turns education upside down!

eduScrum is an active form of collaboration, with which students in teams complete assignments according to a fixed rhythm. They plan and determine their own activities and keep track of progress. The teacher ‘gives’ the assignments, coaching and advice.

With eduScrum, students become the owners of their individual learning process, resulting in intrinsic motivation, fun, personal growth and better results. The teacher initially determines the WHY and the WHAT, the students determine the HOW. A groundbreaking way of educating, where personalized learning plays a very important role including the 4 Cs: Creativity, Collaboration, Communication & Critical Thinking.

Welcome to eduScrum
eduScrum, an adaptation of Scrum, is a framework for an active, collaborative process for the education system with an Agile mindset.

The value of eduScrum is in its simplicity, layering and transparency. It provides tools for creating projects, increasing personal growth, improving results and learning how to work as a team.


Why does eduScrum fit in today?
The world of work is changing dramatically. In companies and organizations where hierarchical control used to be applied, there is now an active search for the meaning of work and decision-making autonomy. Employees and managers want to experience the feeling of “being good at something” at work. There is also a need for companies to constantly innovate and respond quickly to ever-changing market conditions and customer demands. It is necessary to change the principle of how people work in organizations.

So why not start with our children? Let’s work together to make the world of education move with the times.

In recent years, people have become increasingly active in making this change happen in education as well. People are looking for transparent methods to let go of frontal education and are experimenting with new methodologies of participatory education. For this, one can use methods that are also used in large organizations.

One of the fundamental and also widely used methodologies of agile working is Scrum. In the Netherlands you can encounter Scrum in banks, mobile operators, energy companies and software development. Even local governments and the police are now embracing this agile way of working.

Scrum, a framework for an active, collaborative process for the education system with an Agile mindset. The value of eduScrum is in its simplicity, layering and transparency. It provides tools for creating projects, increasing personal growth, improving results and learning how to work as a team.

With eduScrum we make the translation to implement the agile mindset in a responsible way with focus on the learner within our education. This way, education seamlessly connects to the world our students will soon become part of. Through the power of eduScrum students develop knowledge and 21st century competencies and skills and this goes in good harmony with the changes now taking place in the business world.

As Andreas Schleicher, Director of the OECD Directorate for Education and Skills, noted in 2019, “Education is no longer just about teaching students alone; it is more important to teach them to develop a reliable compass and the navigational tools to find their own way in a world that is increasingly complex, volatile and uncertain. Our imagination.”


What is eduScrum?
In eduScrum, we move from teacher-directed teaching to student-directed and student-organized teaching. The teacher determines the WHY and the WHAT, the student teams determine the HOW. eduScrum is a co-creative and active form of collaboration, in which students work together in self-directed teams on an assignment or project. They make use of each other’s qualities and work according to a fixed rhythm in which they plan their own activities and keep track of progress. This way of working gives transparency and freedom within the given frameworks and ownership over their own learning process, both individually and in teams.

But above all it gives the students a lot of fun and active involvement. With eduScrum we offer the students ownership and responsibility as well as overview and structure. The students develop their ability to reflect on themselves, the team and the learning process.This way of co-creating creates trust, fun, intrinsic motivation, involvement and responsibility; the work is finished faster; the results are better. They learn that you can achieve more together. In addition, students experience positive personal development as a matter of course.