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 […]
Collaborative Leadership for Transforming Education in Learning Ecosystems
Developed through an 18-month collaborative effort with education practitioners worldwide, this report explores collaborative leadership for transforming education in learning ecosystems. Building on the previous two reports, “Education Reimagined: Leadership for a New Era” and “Education Reimagined: Leadership for Transformation” by the WISE Agile Leaders of Learning Innovation Network (ALL-IN), this report presents and analyzes a […]
Qatar’s Edtech Testbed: Building Collaborative Partnerships for Innovative Teaching and Learning Outcomes
Download the report EdTech, or educational technology, refers to the use of technology to enhance and support learning. EdTech testbeds are essentially environments where new EdTech tools and approaches can be developed and tested in a controlled setting. These testbeds allow educators and researchers to experiment with different technologies and pedagogical approaches to determine their effectiveness in […]
What World Do We Want to Shape?
This is a reflective essay written as part of the WISE Emerging Leaders program. My fingers slowly press on the warming keyboard. It is now 40 degrees celcius in my North of France hometown. It is the first time in my life that this region, known as one the coldest in the country, has reached such […]
Education Reimagined: Leadership for Transformation
Numerous crises are going on in our world today: health, climate change, and access to quality education, and this was already true before COVID-19. These crises affect how we teach, what we teach, and the skills we’ll need now and in the future. As a result, there is a growing global movement for educational transformation […]
Eliminating Tech Barriers for an Equitable Education
2020: A student treks for nearly an hour up a mountain to access WiFi strong enough to submit their modules. 2015: A photo goes viral of a child completing their homework while using the light of a McDonald’s drive-through. Two stories, five years apart. In the frothing wake of the pandemic, the Philippine education system has only proved […]
Education Reimagined: Leadership for a New Era
The WISE Agile Leaders of Learning Innovation Network (ALL-IN) was established in 2017, as an action-oriented global community of practice of educational leadership experts – including academics, program providers, practitioners and policy makers – who research, design and advocate for high-quality school leadership policies that prepare and support school systems in educating the learners of today and […]
Six Procurement and Retention Lessons for EdTech Companies
According to a 2020 report by HolonIQ, the total global EdTech expenditure is expected to reach $404B by 2025 representing a 16.3% CAGR, or 2.5x growth, between 2019-2025. Part of this market acceleration is a reflection of a significant ‘infrastructure catch-up’, as well as a huge increase in student populations within developing countries. With that […]
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 […]