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Shifting Teacher’s ‘Indigenous’ Beliefs

13 December 2017
Scaling is often defined as multiplying a product or innovation. This prevalent view is inherited from traditional manufacturing industry models and engineering. In education, scaling is about people capacity to enact innovations which can involve products, artifacts, or tools. Hence, cultivating…

Extramarks

12 December 2017
By tailoring instruction to each student's unique needs, current understanding, and interests while ensuring that all responses subscribe to sound pedagogy, Extramarks brings about a fundamental shift to learning through the intelligent adaptive learning approach. It subscribes to the adaptive…

Can Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Deliver on its Promise? Assuring Quality in TVET

12 December 2017
Is technical and vocational education and training (TVET) keeping up with a world in constant motion? Addressing the make-or-break question on how to ensure quality in TVET is crucial for assuring it remains relevant in the future. Findings of the German Development Cooperation on quality…

The Future of Work: Is This Time Different?

12 December 2017
What skills are most critical for future jobs in light of the rapid changes in technology and development in automation, artificial intelligence, and robots? How can low-skilled workers cope with technological advancement? In this presentation, Carl Benedikt Frey of Oxford Martin School, gives an…

Entrepreneurship in the Education Industry and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

12 December 2017
The US Department of Labor reveals that 65% of children in elementary school today will have jobs that do not exist yet. Learn how the Fourth Industrial Revolution affects the education sector, and consequently the labor force.

Building Innovation Skills for the Youth

12 December 2017
Anshul Sonak shares Intel's initiatives in preparing Asia's youth for the global workforce. Check out how Intel's innovations in the education sector have been bringing positive change in different countries.

Coursera

12 December 2017
What does the rise of online courses mean for us? Check out this material presented by Matthew Klein, Coursera's Manager for International Government Partnerships.

AWS Educate

12 December 2017
With the increasing demand for cloud employees, AWS Educate provides an academic gateway for the next generation of IT and cloud professionals. AWS Educate is Amazon's global initiative to provide students and educators with the resources needed to accelerate cloud-related learning endeavors.

Scaling People, Not Things: Teachers at the Heart of Change

12 December 2017
To scale in education is to build learning communities where teachers, who are at the heart of change, are both the product and process of scaling an innovation. Learn from David Hung of the National Institute of Education (NIE) of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Learning Equality

12 December 2017
Around 617 million children and youth are not achieving minimum proficiency in reading and mathematics. Meanwhile, less than half of the world has access to the internet. Discover how Learning Equality is responding to these challenges by providing local, offline access to Khan Academy content to 4…