Learning Ecosystems: A New Paradigm in the Learning Experience
In this special focus, we go beyond the design of learning ecosystems. Insights shared in this edition shed light on different aspects linked to a learner’s experience. In Learning Ecosystems: A New Paradigm in the Learning Experience, we look at the where, the what, the when and the how of learning under learning ecosystems. How do we […]
Addressing Challenges in Artificial Intelligence
How do you harness the power of AI in classrooms where resources are scarce, teachers are overstretched, and access to technology is uneven? This new WISE Innovation Brief explores that urgent question, spotlighting bold and practical ways innovators are ensuring AI serves education rather than leaving learners behind. From adaptive platforms supporting teachers in Latin […]
Accelerating Foundational Literacy and Numeracy in Crisis and Low-Resource Settings
How do you teach a child to read or count when schools are closed, teachers are few, and technology is limited? This new WISE Innovation Brief explores that very question, spotlighting bold and practical solutions from around the world that are helping children build essential skills in the most difficult conditions. From WhatsApp-based math support […]
WISE 11 – Summit Report & Policy Recommendations
With the advent of artificial intelligence, what does the future hold for the way we teach, learn, and tap into our creativity? This comprehensive report summarizes the key discussions, insights and policy recommendations from the 2023 WISE Summit, which brought together global education stakeholders to explore the implications of AI for the future of education. […]
Building Skills, Strengthening Communities: The Impact of Learning Festivals
What can students learn outside of the classroom that they would not necessarily access in formal education systems? In a world facing challenges such as poverty, conflict, inequality, unemployment, and environmental sustainability, education holds a pivotal role in addressing these issues. However, traditional education often struggles to meet the evolving needs of future generations. As […]
Qatar’s Edtech Testbed: Challenges and Opportunities for Building Collaborative Partnerships Toward Innovative, Tech-Enabled Teaching and Learning
What barriers and opportunities exist for the schools and teachers in introducing, incorporating, and implementing edtech and encouraging its use in the classroom? To what extent do support and professional development opportunities offered by the edtech venture (i.e., Kamkalima) influence the use and incorporation of the edtech tool in and outside the classroom? How do […]
Leveraging the Evidence on the Relationship between Teacher and Student Well-being in Learning and Teaching
The crisis of children’s mental health and rising disparities in educational outcomes have become global concerns, particularly due to the surge in mental health challenges among children and youth attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic and other global events that have caused disruptions to student learning and social and emotional wellbeing. Alongside the declines in the […]
Strengthening Learning Ecosystems in Qatar: Improving access to opportunity for all learners
WISE has been at the forefront in leading global thinking and practice around the concept of learning ecosystems, publishing one of the first major reports, Local Learning Ecosystems: Emerging Models 1, in 2019. This report set out a definition that has since been used to shape the field, and a series of defining characteristics of […]
Piloting Qatar’s First Edtech TestBed: The Journey Towards Best Practice, Sustainable Partnerships and Innovation
When you think about technology in the classroom, what comes to mind? Over the last three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, digital learning has accelerated –virtual calls, online collaboration and the more frequent utilization of educational technology (edtech) platforms are all normal components of classroom learning today. Edtech has certainly proliferated over the last few […]
Using Project-Based Learning in Low Resource Contexts Globally: Understanding the Choices and Challenges
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has seen innumerable alternative approaches to learning evolve in response to colossal global education disruption. The flourish of new and progressive pedagogies during this unprecedented time emphasizes the ever-evolving need for teaching and learning that encompasses all needs, all learners, and all communities. But how can we ensure that […]