The Path to Personalized Learning
In this series, Berlin Fang and Dr. Alexander Romiszowski put the much-hyped personalized learning in historical and international perspectives, while offering suggestions that may help educators think and design educational experiences conducive to effective personalized learning. Why Personalized Learning? Can Technology Fix Personalized Learning? You Get What You Measure: Assessing Personalized Learning Learning, Personalized and […]
Balancing Educational Leadership With Motherhood
I recently completed a doctorate in Education at Cambridge University. I am a Qatari mother of five children. Although my parents didn’t read or write, they were guided by a belief that education was ‘the passport to life.’ They encouraged my sisters and brothers to work hard at our studies and do well in school. […]
How Social Impact Investing Is Driving Change in Education
In Latin America, social impact investment—that is, the leveraging of private capital to meet public needs—holds great promise. And as the region’s economic situation continues to evolve, this approach is increasingly gaining momentum. In recent years, social programs have largely come from the public sector. Innovative government measures like conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have lifted […]
Social Enterprises Can Innovate, But Can They Scale?
Most leaders of education agree that if we hope to see universal access to high-quality education in our lifetimes, it will require some serious disruption to existing educational models. Innovation is needed throughout delivery, management and measurement, and it’s needed on a large scale. Most innovation starts with a departure from the tried and true. […]
Why Social Enterprises Can Lead the Way in Education Provision
As we embark on 15 years of daunting and extremely demanding targets we must, as a collective, accept that the way to make a telling change is to push ideological differences aside and accept that national governments won’t be able to fund and deliver these bold targets on their own. Fifteen years ago, when the Millennium Development […]
How Business Leaders Can Work With Social Entrepreneurs to Change Education
The most successful initiatives in education have not been cooked up in a corporate lab. The best innovative ideas come from the people who have truly lived education in school & classroom and came up with a creative solution to make a positive change in their daily workflow. Such innovation is born out of […]
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Innovate Education on a Shoestring
Dongguan, an industrial city in southern China, is probably the most labor-intensive area in the world. Each year, millions of migrant workers from inland provinces leave their hometown to become workers on the production line in factories of Dongguan. These migrant workers not only want to make money, they also want their children to become […]
Leading Change in Education: the Role of Social Enterprise
Education may often be thought of as the last and most stubborn bastion of bureaucracy and factory mentality in this fast-changing era. Many people have a mixed emotion about education. On one hand, they believe access to high-quality education is essential for their future; on the other hand, they are distrustful of the education they […]
What Role Can Social Entrepreneurs Play in Education?
Special Focus : Can Social Enterprise Lead Innovation in Education? the world has changed, and continues to change, at unparalleled speeds. Education and skills requirements for the future will have completely new dimensions, and global education systems will need to adapt quickly to equip the worlds’ young people for the new demands. It is time to […]
Scaling Quality Education for the World’s Poorest Children
This article is part of a special interview series featuring global innovators in education (part 2 of 5). Visit WISE ed.review regularly to read the upcoming articles. “One of the most gratifying elements of the organisation is that we have almost 6,000 staff members who are working together to provide children with the quality of education that […]