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: Don’t Guess My Race
“We want children to see how the world doesn’t come in bounded natural groups, but that there are spectrums of difference and multiplicities of intersecting identities that overlay this difference.” – Michael Baran Deepening divides fragment our societies and our economies. How can modern technologies help us to find the common ground and bring us closer together? In an increasingly interconnected world, race,...
The Global Search for Education: Creative Changemakers for a Better World
“We want all education systems to teach children to become creative changemakers for themselves and for a better world.” – Emer Beamer A rapidly changing world has lots of big problems to solve. Kids love coming up with their own ideas for big problems. How can that creativity and passion be channeled into both relevant learning and improving the planet they will inherit? Enter Emer Beamer. The impetus for her...
The Global Search For Education: A Curriculum for Changemakers
“We focus our lessons on trying to understand the impetus for feelings of xenophobia and nationalism in the world.” – Jamie Steckart What if you could go to a school where your education was centered around travel, cultural immersion, empathy and developing the skills to make a positive change in the world? The first graduating class of THINK Global School has just completed their post-secondary studies and while...
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...
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