* The first author is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71471090, 11001052), the Humanities and Social Sciences Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China (No. 14YJCZH182), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2014T70449, 2012M520964), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China (No. BK20131339), Qing Lan Project, PAPD, Project of Constructio...

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Education is a major force for economic and social wellbeing. Despite high aspirations, education at all levels can be expensive and ineffective. Three Grand Challenges are identified: (1) enable people to learn orders of magnitude more effectively, (2) enable people to learn at orders of magnitude less cost, and (3) demonstrate success by exemplary interdisciplinary education in complex system...

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* The authors gratefully acknowledge the support provided by the Key Project of Research Base for Beijing Social Science Foundation of P.R. China for this study, under the Grant No. 16JDJYA007. 1 Institute of International and Comparative Education, Faculty of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai, P. R. China. Email: [email protected] 2 Correspondence to: Guiqing An, Institu...

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