The Global Search for Education: Neha Gautam’s Heartwarming Tale of Friendship Amid COVID-19
This month, audiences can screen No New Friends on the Planet Classroom Network.
The Global Search for Education: Director Dorothy Allen-Pickard Uses Dance, Design and Dialogue to Tackle Disability
This month audiences can screen Material Bodies on the Planet Classroom Network.
The Global Search for Education: Learning That’s Virtually Real
“We believe the training and collaboration with teachers around the world will be absolute key to increasing the adoption more rapidly, and could easily lead to millions of students using VR globally to learn science more effectively.” – Michael Bodekaer Jensen Will all students one day have the opportunity to explore the world from within their classroom walls? Worldwide shipments for augmented reality and virtual...
Around the World in 30 Days: March 2019
C.M. Rubin’s Global Education Report Professor Anant Agarwal, Founder and CEO of edX, won the Yidan prize for Education Development. Agarwal leads edX, an online learning destination created by Harvard and MIT scientists with the goal of providing high quality education at scale. The first edX course attracted 155,000 students from 162 countries. Today, the platform offers over 2000 online courses from more than 150 education...
The Global Search for Education: How to Expand High-Quality Learning Access for All Students
“The jobs of the future will require a hybrid set of skills from a variety of subject areas that will change several times over during our careers, which will include a mix of hard skills and soft skills.” – Anant Agarwal The second Yidan Prize Summit took place in Hong Kong on December 10, 2018. Founded by Dr. Charles Chen Yidan, the prize seeks to give recognition to individuals whose work makes profound...
The Global Search for Education: Keeping Up With The Machines
“We should be changing the goals of education to focus on deeper learning: Relevance of what is taught, to build motivation, and personalization of the What and How; Versatility, to create ‘Renaissance humans’, which brings robustness to face whatever life throws at us; Transfer, insuring that what we learn in the narrow confines of schools, translates into actionability in real-life situations.” — Charles Fadel...
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