Driving Social Innovation in Higher Education
This article is part of a special interview series featuring global innovators in education (part 1 of 5). Visit WISE ed.review regularly to read the upcoming articles. “The more we shift from the myth of the ‘hero’, the more we can all participate in contributing to change in a variety of ways,” explained Marina Kim, Co-Founder and […]
Learning, Personalized and Competency-Based
This article is part of a series on personalized learning (part 4 of 6). To develop expertise in anything, Malcolm Gladwell famously said in his book Outliers that you need to invest 10,000 hours. It is true in the general sense that success requires copious amount of time, but to assume that one could use the 10,000 hours equally […]
How Strong Community And Educator Support Drives Ed Tech Success
Stacked amidst temporary shelters, tents and thatched huts in Burundi’s Kavumu refugee camp are a pile of bright blue, green and yellow boxes. Stowed away in these 800 kg metal palette-size boxes are countless ideas to educate, entertain and foster creativity among refugees. The self-contained watertight boxes are packed with e-readers, tablets, cameras, e-books, paperbacks, board […]
Closing the Gap Between K12 and Higher Education in MENA
One of the first questions to address when approaching the gap between secondary and higher education in the Arab World is whether this gap is a reality or a myth. In the last few years, I was particularly intrigued by this question, which led me to conduct a sample study including 2500 GCC students sent […]
Giving Schools the Power to Create
Despite the millions of words, Youtube and TED Talk views, the issue of creativity in schools is still in the middle of a rough ride. During 2015, debates appeared to have gone backwards, especially in England. The publication of Ken Robinson’s latest book on creative schools generated mixed responses. More traditional opponents decried an excessively […]
You Get What You Measure: Assessing Personalized Learning
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, […]
Can Technology Fix Personalized Learning?
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 […]
Why Personalized 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 […]
Without Quality Education, Latin America May Lose Its Demographic Dividend
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, […]
Bolder Giving for Stronger Education Impact
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 […]