The Journey of Building Partnerships with K-12 Schools in MENA
School ecosystems are not new to us. As co-founders, and mid-career professionals, we bring more than 50 years of experience in the education space, from teaching to policy, research to implementation. It is this profound understanding of how schools work that has helped us as entrepreneurs to build partnerships with over 65 schools in 7 […]
Learning Ecosystems: A Powerful Means to Supporting Learners in Underserved Communities
As we dive deeper into the question of Learning Ecosystems – what they are, what are their strengths, their weaknesses, the key concepts and how they can be adapted – at the WISE Learning Ecosystems Living Lab, through our discussions and workshops with our community, we’ve started to notice similar remarks crop up about the […]
Meeting the Midcareer Moment
The headlines blare from newspapers and websites, echoing the “Help Wanted” signs posted on storefronts. For the workforce in many countries, it’s a historic moment. Bargaining power is shifting from employers to workers. Job openings are high, as are the numbers quitting current jobs to seek better ones. To attract talent, companies are paying more […]
Letting Our Children Write The Stories
We talk to Peter Nicholson, CEO of Baobabooks, an easy-to-use and intuitive edtech platform where children, teens and young adults can write, illustrate and publish their own books and then share them with the world. Baobabooks is part of the 2021-22 WISE Edtech Accelerator Cohort and has worked with more than 15,000+ students around the world at the […]
Edtech Market Entry Strategies: India
At the beginning of 2020, the edtech market found itself at a turning point. There had already been huge leaps forward in education technology, and investment-led interest had naturally followed, with $1.7 billion raised in 2019 alone. There was no going back now; edtech had made an indelible mark on classrooms around the world and […]
COVID-19: Bringing Girls Back to School
This joint blog post has been produced by speakers following a conversation organized by WISE on the occasion of International Women’s Day (March 8th), on the consequences of the pandemic on girls’ and women’s education. The following summarizes their contributions and highlights recommendations on potential solutions to remedy to this issue: The returns to schooling […]
Trust and Thriving Learning Ecosystems
The importance of trust in learning ecosystems is often emphasized but rarely interrogated. The aim of this piece is to guide deeper dialogue and reflection about the practice of weaving trustful relationships as a foundation of thriving learning ecosystems. It is in no way intended to be definitive or comprehensive. What is trust? There is […]
Conveying Big Ideas with Small Budgets
In 2015, 40 percent of Africa’s population lived in cities. By the late 2030s, more than half of Africa’s population will call urban areas home. With over 60% of its population under the age of 25, the ability of West African cities to nurture learning and wellbeing for all its citizens has immediate consequences for […]
Stewarding Learning Ecosystems: The CommunityShare Story
In conversation with Josh Schachter, founder and director of CommunityShare (www.communityshare.us), on stewarding learning ecosystems, interviewed by the WISE team. What sparked your interest in learning ecosystems? Though it may sound strange, I often joke with my students that lemurs were some of my best mentors in making sense of the world. My formal training […]
Learning Ecosystems: Knowing When You Are Ready for Change
Sustaining continued learning has become one of the main/urgent developments in education as the global pandemic continues to unfold. We as resilient human beings must seek ecosystem-based approaches to change adaptation. To start, we must ask ourselves “are we ready for such change?” Being ready to adapt ecosystem-based changes for sustained learning requires us to […]