MOOCs: What Comes Next?
MOOCs. It’s such an awkward acronym. It sounds like it should be the name for a new type of children’s shoe. Or else a type of synthetic milk. But the MOOCs – massive open online courses – are threatening to shake up higher education. And it’s a subject that deeply divides opinion about the future […]
The Future of Learning: Making Children in Charge
Schools need to please parents. If they don’t, parents won’t send their children to school. So schools try to create what parents want: children who grow up into happy people, marry the kind of people their parents want, produce wonderful grandchildren and, in general, live a happy life. Schools need to please the Government as […]
Flipping Your Faculty. It’s Much Easier Than Videos
A lot has been made about flipping over the past year or so. If you are unfamiliar with the term, here is an explanation: So the idea is, there is some sort of information transfer (basic information about a learning concept) outside of the learning environment (classroom) allowing for further discussion or extended learning when in […]
Pauline Rose “Cutbacks in aid to basic education are harmful for disadvantaged children”
With just two years until the deadline for getting all children into school, renewed energy to achieve Education for All by 2015 is more crucial than ever. Yet our new policy paper reveals that international aid for education has declined for the first time since 2002 while 57 million children continue to be denied access to school. […]
Josephine Bourne: Who Is Out of School and Why?
There are 57 million children out of school – over half will go to school at some point. Approximately 28 million children will have no access to school. But the rest – the majority by a small margin, have had, or are likely to have some exposure to schooling. They are the children who start […]
Ronda Zelezny-Green: 126 Million Reasons to Consider Using Mobile Tools in Education
126 million. The old adage says that there is strength in numbers, but in this case it is a sign of a global society that either cares too little or is not imaginative enough to explore new possibilities. According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, in 2011 there were at least 126 million people of primary […]
Focus Asia: Thriving Community With Technology For Education
Nid has never thought that she could own her first tablet pc when she turned seven years old last year. For a daughter of a poor farmer in remote province of Thailand, owning a tablet is not what her family can afford to amidst of low family income, debt, and lack of basic infrastructure to […]
Graham Brown-Martin : “We continue to use technology to reinforce 19th century teaching practice”
The new WISE Publication, to be released in 2014, will focus on the link between new technologies and learning. Graham Brown-Martin, Founder of Learning Without Frontiers and Founder of Education Design Labs, will write the third WISE Book, which will be illustrated by the creative photography of award-winning photographer Newsha Tavakolian. WISE spoke to Graham Brown-Martin about […]
Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock: “STEM is for everyone. It is fun and exciting”
Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock, a Space Scientist and Founder of Science Innovation Limited, shares her views on how to make STEM more attractive and fun for learners. What would you do to make science more accessible and fun for kids who wouldn’t ordinarily think it’s fun? Making STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fun for everyone […]
WISE Prize Laureate’s Speech: “Education is the most important catalyst for change.”
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder of BRAC, receives the first WISE Prize for Education from His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Amir of the State of Qatar, at the Opening Plenary Session of the WISE Summit in Doha, Qatar. Sir Abed founded BRAC in 1972 and has built the world’s largest and most efficient […]