Little Victories – There Are No Instant Miracles in Education Development
I am a bit of an impatient person by nature – unfortunately. I am endlessly calculating the speed of each line when standing in queues at the checkout and you don’t want to be driving behind/in front of me in traffic! However, crucially, I know there is little space for this less than admirable characteristic […]
Training Leaders to be Intermediaries Between China and the World
As international education has become larger and more diverse, one significant trend has emerged: an ambition to teach leadership. But that is not an easy call. There is still an ongoing argument about what makes a good leader, about the degree to which leadership varies with the context in which it is set and about […]
Your Education…is Live: There is a Time for Real-time Online Teaching
Distance education used to include synchronous teaching. China’s Radio and Television university was a live broadcast system, using radio and television to reach students at diverse locations. In 2015, the Open University system enrolled 3,503,872 students. In some other places such as Saudi Arabia, where gender differences may pose cultural challenges for teachers and students to […]
Promising Practices in Equity and Project-Based Learning
One-third of American workers are now engaged in some kind of freelancing, or project-based, work. Our lives are increasingly being organized around gigs, short term or longer term projects. Even if young people decide against joining the gig economy and land long term jobs with stable employment, they are likely to do most of their work in projects. […]
Raising EdTech! An Entrepreneurial Journey
I started TeachPitch as an initiative to give a voice to teachers. A voice that they could use to ‘pitch’ directly to a community for support of any sort – from donations for a new school computer, valuable connections with other educators up to direct access to high quality learning content. Previously I had been speaking a […]
Shrinking the Education Gap to Lift the Economy
This article is part of a series on innovative solutions to tackle the main challenges of Latin American education (part 7 of 7). While the world advances towards a knowledge-driven society, and thus a knowledge-driven economy, global value chains are becoming increasingly complex and the “internet of things“ and the sharing economy are blurring traditional forms of employment and […]
Can Great Technologies Replace Great Teaching?
Technology is far from new. In the history of mankind, we have devised better ways to work, live and learn. Since the invention of the wheel, and even before, human creativity and innovation have met no limits. We have conquered travel around the planet and even outside of it. We can communicate and work with […]
Swimming With Sharks: Don’t Let Fears Limit Your Collaborations
I am privileged to live next to one of the most beautiful beaches in South Africa. However False Bay is also home to one of the biggest and most ‘active’ populations of Great White sharks in the world. So no matter how welcoming the azure sea is on a hot day, I will not even […]
Should Basic Entrepreneurship Education Be Compulsory?
In a time when the value of higher education is being questioned due to a general increment in tuition costs, the infamous skills-gap, the flood of articles about successful college dropouts and the recent craze for startups, entrepreneurship is, without question, a hot topic. Why go to a four-year college when you can start your own business? But despite […]
Revolutionizing Entrepreneurship Education in Tunisia
Special Focus : Education for Peace and Development Entrepreneurship is not a hype nor is it a trend; it’s been around for thousands of years. But today, it’s definitely trendy to become an entrepreneur. While telling people that you’re an entrepreneur, lets people look at you with that special wide-eyed admiration, the path from your first entrepreneurial […]