A Personalized Approach to Learning
This article was originally published on FE News. In today’s digital world, businesses can identify the precise needs of their customers and curate products accordingly. Take the example of e-commerce websites: based on the history of past purchases and other insights, the website can recommend products that individual customers are likely to buy. Similarly, a streaming […]
The New Normal: Online Professional Development for School Leaders
During the COVID-19 pandemic, school leaders have played a central role in shutting schools, ensuring student well-being, engaging students in learning, and planning for eventual school re-opening. As there was no playbook for this transition, we engaged school leaders through a series of virtual workshops to guide them. This article contributes to the nascent […]
Connecting Through Professional Learning
As part of its response to the COVID-19 crisis, the Ontario Principals’ Council offered daily professional learning sessions to its members. Following a short survey, the daily sessions were offered to school leaders regardless of their affiliation. These sessions have been well received and provided some learning opportunities, not only for school administrators, but also […]
Education Leadership in Times of Uncertainty: Rising to the Challenge
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised many challenges to our education systems. Yet, it also presents an opportunity to re-consider the delivery of education and schooling by those in educational leadership positions. School leadership teams play a vital role in creating the environments that support teachers, students and their families to continue to be connected and […]
Lessons Learned from China: Bridging the Digital Divide During COVID-19
The future of learning is here before we know it. The COVID-19 social distancing measures resulted in many education systems having to shut down their facilities and move learning and instruction online. While a three-way blend of technology, internet, and education presents an enormous opportunity for education systems to embrace the future, there is a […]
‘Education cannot just go back to business as usual after COVID-19’ – QF educator
‘Virtual’ international conference by QF’s WISE analyzes what coronavirus may mean for the future of education. Global education will not be able to return to “business as usual” in a post-coronavirus world, and must take the opportunity that the crisis has offered to rethink and reshape itself, a Qatar Foundation educator has told an international […]
Maslow Before Bloom: Educators Need to Meet Learners’ Basic Needs in Time of Pandemic
Teachers are being called on to do more than just teach during the Coronavirus crisis. While long-held by some educators, the maxim “Maslow before Bloom” has never been more relevant than now, in the midst of the global novel Coronavirus pandemic. More than 95% of children have had their learning disrupted due to the pandemic, […]
Global Sport Development Systems and Athletes’ Access to Education
This research explores elite sport development systems and aspects of educational attainment and opportunities for elite athletes in a variety of national sport development systems. The countries analyzed for this project are the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, Senegal, and Qatar. These were selected by the researchers because of the heterogeneous social-political contexts, the […]
Global Sport Development Systems and Access to Education
Elite sports worldwide are ubiquitous and can have a major part in socio-economic advancement, public health, and entertainment for nations worldwide. Top performance at an amateur, professional or international level in sports can be a great source of pride for countries and others ranging from sponsors, media distributors and the athletes themselves. Oftentimes, the total […]
Designing Effective Teaching Systems
In an increasingly complex social and technological environment, teachers need to adapt to new demands through constant professional development. To facilitate this, NGOs can be the catalyst for mobilizing resources by means of extensive collaboration across different sectors. In this interview, we talk with Ms. Jiangxue Pan, Director of the Board at Adream Foundation, who […]