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Thematic Plenary Session - Designing Education for the Future: "How can we, together, build a movement to transform education?"
Three distinguished panelists from Mali, Palestine and the UK paint pictures of education for th ...
Thematic Plenary Session - Achieving Effective Reform: How Can We Improve Education in Every School?
What are the main drivers for achieving effective reforms of education systems? In this WISE 201 ...
Rethinking Innovation in Education: Where Should We Look for Change?
This WISE 2011 Plenary Session features a panel of leaders in education from Brazil, Russia, Hon ...
Learners' Voice 2011: "Young People Need to Be empowered"
The 2011 Learners' Voice participants talk about their experiences at WISE, challenges facing ed ...
WISE Awards 2011 Winners: What Works on the Ground?
In this thought-provoking WISE 2011 Summit panel discussion, the six WISE Awards 2011 Winners no ...
Simple Ideas, Big Results: How can simple ideas produce big results?
Sometimes the simplest ideas have the biggest impact. In Jordan, “We Love Reading” trains women ...
Learning Anytime, Anywhere: Lifelong learning is about people getting control of the learning that is happening in their communities
Lifelong learning is the subject of this WISE 2011 Summit debate. The panelists begin by looking ...
Nurturing Creativity: "Creativity as a desirable extra in education does not work"
Creativity has moved up the political agenda in the developed world as its importance for econom ...
Role of the Media in Education: "We try to inform debates, confront different points of view"
Education journalists from international and national media outlets discuss the role of the medi ...
Mobile Learning for the Hard-to-Reach: "Let's try to develop devices that will really enable learning"
As mobile phones are increasingly affordable and accessible around the world, they are seen as a ...
Exploring Alternative Financing in Developing Countries: "If we don't have the right systems in place, resources will not deliver the desired outcomes"
Non-state actors, including private sector organization and international and domestic NGOs are ...
Redefining the Role of Social Entrepreneurs in the Learning Ecosystem: "All of us have to get involved to improve the quality of education"
The call for “education for all” has increased the demand for non-state provision of quality edu ...
Preventing Drop-Out, Bringing Learners Back in: Experiences in Canada, Sub-Saharan Africa and Cuba
Drop-out is a process that has widely different causes in different countries, can happen at ver ...
Scaling-Up - The Right Approach: Is it possible to bring effective educational innovations to scale?
Leaders from innovative education programs agree that that scaling up is vital for progress in e ...
Identifying Common Denominators of Successful Innovation: "Innovation is finding what works in different contexts"
Innovative educators working in very different circumstances describe their programs and identif ...
Motivating and Engaging Students: How can we bring the curriculum into the 21st century?
What motivates learners? Innovative educators from China, Norway and the UK and a student ...
Supporting and Empowering Educators: "The whole society needs to support and empower teachers' work and learning"
Teachers are also lifelong learners. They learn through professional development, collabor ...
Adapting to the Future World of Work: How can we move from rhetoric to real change for real children?
In a world where trends in globalization, demographics and technology are changing the labor mar ...
Reforming Education - Mission Impossible: "Risk aversion can be overcome when we decide to reward genuine efforts, alternative concepts"
In this WISE 2011 Summit debate, high-level panelists from Jordan, Turkey and Pakistan dis ...
Developing New Approaches to Leadership: Are Current Leadership Models Sufficient to Meet Future Challenges?
Globally, educational leadership is improving access though not necessarily quality. Are current ...
Creating a Change Culture: "To lead change, you have to lead by example...and to explain why"
Creating a change culture – an entrepreneurial culture, open to creative and innovative th ...
Measuring Progress: "Numbers need to tell a story..."
"No matter who you are, you will be required at some point to gather data..." panel moderator Jo ...
How Does Innovation Happen: "Societies which are tolerant of failure are conducive to innovation"
Where do good ideas come from? What can we do about the gap between ideas and their implem ...
Education and Change in the Arab World: Has the Arab Spring Created an Opportunity for Reform in the Region?
Experts on education, labor and employment in the Arab region gather to talk about the the range ...
Rethinking Education in Development: What role for education in the future?
Education needs to be relevant to all sectors, including health care, the environment and job cr ...
Learning from Game Changers: Can We Move from Improvement to Genuine Transformation in Education?
In this WISE 2011 Summit debate, innovators from Ethiopia, Iran, Kuwait and the US discuss how t ...
Supporting Collaboration through Online Platforms: What Is the Potential for Online Open Educational Resources to Revolutionize Education?
Online platforms can potentially facilitate the creation of a globally distributed knowledge bas ...
Overcoming Challenges: What Lessons Can We Learn from Other Sectors?
Development challenges are often most effectively addressed through multi-sectoral strategies.&n ...
Learning through Play: Could Learning and Play Be One and the Same?
In this WISE 2011 Summit Debate, three experts share their insights on the impact of play on lea ...
2009 WISE - Sustainability Session
Sustaining diversified and innovative educational models in a sustainable world: enforcing ...
2009 WISE - Pluralism Session
Pluralism in education: finding the paths leading to diversified and inclusive societies.
His Excellency Sheikh Abdulla bin Ali AL-THANI - PhD, Chairman
Opportunities to rebuild education systems using innovative methods are ongoing. The many intera ...
2009 WISE Opening - Highlights
WISE and Education: a vision and an ambition towards global achievements.
2009 WISE - Innovation Session
New practices, new models, new technology: will multistakeholder initiatives set the pace of edu ...
Creative Arts in Education
For a long time, the creative arts were losing ground in schools and universities to skills cons ...
Social Media: Trends in Collaborative Learning
The growth of social media - from Facebook to Twitter, from Flickr to Youtube - has provided a h ...
Shared Values
Humanity is made up of richly different national and cultural identities and we are more than ev ...
New Perspectives for the Media in 21st Century Education
Session DescriptionWhat are the development strategies of major international media groups in th ...
Multistakeholder Partnerships in Education
While the private sector has long participated to an extent in public education, “Multistakehold ...
Designing Adaptable Curricula
Session DescriptionMany innovative curriculum models and approaches can be found across all regi ...
Creating Teachers for Tomorrow
The role of teachers and the skills they require are changing as learner expectations and access ...
Access to Quality Education for All
Progress is being made against the Millennium Development Goal of providing primary level educat ...
Games for Serious Learning
Many regard play as a vital part of learning because it is engaging, entertaining, social and ca ...
Education and Reconciliation
In post-conflict zones, reconciliation between past and present, individuals and communities, ca ...
Human Capacity Development
Session DescriptionInitiatives by international organisations and others have been designed to i ...
Open Education Models
Technology is helping to drive a world in which there are greater opportunities for sharing info ...
Skills for the 21st Century
Much good work has been done to identify “21st-century skills” - such as learning-to-learn, crit ...
Lessons from Cognitive Science
Session DescriptionThrough neuroscience, modern imaging technology and cognitive science, great ...
Appraising the Impact of ICT
Session DescriptionMany advocates of technology encourage its use across the curriculum, but we ...
How can mobile devices enhance learning in classrooms?
Session DescriptionHow can near-universal access to mobile telephony support learning? Cell phon ...
