This article is part of a series on personalized learning (part 3 of 6). “What you measure is what you get”, Kaplan and Norton wrote in their seminal article about the Balanced Scorecard for Harvard Business Review in 1992. In designing personalized education, we risk starting from the wrong end, by focusing on the technologies to use, […]

This article is part of a series on personalized learning (part 2 of 6). Educational professor Dr. Don Ely once famously asked: “If technology is the answer, what is the question?”  With renewed interest in personalized learning, we should be cautious of the techno-centric tendency. In China, billions of dollars are being pumped into various online learning […]

This article is part of a series on personalized learning (part 1 of 6). After his daughter’s birth, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan announced that they would donate 99% of their Facebook shares to charitable work, including the promotion of personalized learning. Of all the learning “revolutions” out there with shinier names, why […]

This article is part of a series on innovative solutions to tackle the main challenges of Latin American education (part 5 of 6).  Developed countries are facing a major demographic challenge. From Europe to Japan, their population growth rates are slowing, impacting everything from the solvency of retirement funds to the pace of economic expansion. Latin America, […]

Global business moguls from Ted Turner to Mark Zuckerberg have transformed our daily lives with their brainpower and acumen. But they refuse to confine their entrepreneurial energy to their businesses. Eager to make a lasting impact on people’s lives, they are combining their innovative thinking and the wealth it yields to combat global challenges. I […]

Over the last few weeks, millions of children across the Northern Hemisphere have headed back to school for the beginning of a new school year. Sadly, for many of them, the beginning of the school year also marks the beginning of a prolonged period of cumulative sleep deprivation that will progressively affect their physical and […]

It’s education, not guns that transform a society, says Dr. Sakena Yacoobi, founder and executive director of the Afghan Institute of Learning, an Afghan women-led NGO. On November 4, 2015, Dr. Yacoobi received the 2015 WISE Prize for Education during the 7th World Innovation Summit for Education in Doha, Qatar. Fondly known as Afghanistan’s mother of […]