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Learning for a Livelihood
> Back to Learning and Earning Many practical and innovative ways are being used to prep ...
Speakers 2010
DAY 1OPENING PLENARY SESSIONH.E. Lakhdar Brahimi, Former Under Secretary General of t ...
Speakers 2011
WISE 2011 Speakers and Chairs WISE Speakers and Chairs came from more than 40 differe ...
Voices
A Teacher’s Life in the 21st Century
I remember when I started studying to become a teacher I thought; “I want to make a difference. ...
Mr.Naganathan: “Aspiring Teachers Are Awarded Degrees but Not Trained for the Profession”
By: Sriram NaganathanAs a workforce, teachers in India face four challenges.The first is t ...
Steve Huggett: “It is very important to be flexible in the way that the curriculum is taught”
According to a report by the Autism Education Trust (AET) in the United King ...
Mr. Andreas Schleicher: ‘We need stronger links between learning processes and assessment.’
Mr Andreas Schleicher, Head of Indicators and Analysis Division, Directorate for Education, OECD ...
Ms. Carol Bellamy: ‘Girls must have access to secondary school’.
Carol Bellamy, Chair of the Global Partnership for Education highlights the on-going challenge o ...
Mr. Andreas Schleicher: "You need to encourage new ways of thinking"
Andreas Schleicher- Head of the Indicators and Analysis Division Directorate for Education- OECD ...
Shelly Esque - President of the Intel Foundation
Shelly Esque describes the group’s involvement in education transformation around the world. She ...
Debates
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Designing Adaptable Curricula
Session DescriptionMany innovative curriculum models and approaches can be found across all regi ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Assessment and Education Improvement
Traditional assessment has been equated with written exams, concentrating on a small area of the ...
Improving Education Systems
The “Future of Education” must be built on existing foundations and therefore involves improving ...
Learning from Reforms of National Education Systems
Session DescriptionThroughout the world, national education systems are undergoing reform to ada ...
Best Practices
The Te Kotahitanga and He Kakano Projects (New Zealand): Improving the Learning of Mãori Students
In this WISE 2011 session, Russell Bishop, Chair Professor of Mãori Education at the University ...
Scientifically Tailored Employability Program (STEP)
The objectives of the Scientifically Tailored Employability Program (STEP) are: (1) enabling peo ...
School-Business Partnerships
The mission of School-Business Partnerships is to improve the quality of education by mobilizing ...
The Open Learning Initiative
Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative (OLI) has combined theory and practice to create scie ...
Learning World
The best days of your life?
Throughout Tanzania and East Africa, primary school enrolment has increased dramatically in the ...
The best days of your life?
70 million children are still out of school. What went wrong? Former British Prime Minister Gord ...
The best days of your life?
We have interviewed leading figures (Gordon Brown, Pascal Lamy, Carol Bellamy, Irina Bokova, etc ...
Press release
INAUGURAL WISE PRIZE FOR EDUCATION GOES TO BANGLADESHI FAZLE HASAN ABED
Education underpins development for 138 million poor Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, foun ...
Global Summit concludes with a strategic focus on 21st century challenges in education
Establishment of WISE Prize for Education with an award of US$500,000 Innovations in education t ...
Impact and potential of innovative trends highlighted at Global Summit on Education
On the final day of the World Innovation Summit for Education - WISE, over 1,200 international e ...
Global Summit concludes with a strategic focus on 21st century challenges in education
Establishment of WISE Prize for Education with an award of US$500,000 Innovations in education t ...
Biography
Dr. Marope Mmantsetsa
Dr. Mmantsetsa Marope is the Director of Division for Basic to Higher Education and Leanin ...
Dr. Tayseer AL-NOAIMI
Dr. Tayseer Al-Nahar Al Noaimi is the former Minister of Education in The Hashemite Kingdo ...
Dr. Jacek STRZEMIECZNY
During the communist era in Poland, Jacek Strzemieczny was involved in a number of u ...
Dr. Ruth WALLACE
Dr. Ruth Wallace leads the Centre for Social Partnerships in Lifelong Learning Research Co ...
Ms. Magdalene STORSVEEN
Magdalene Storsveen is a 29-year-old English and science teacher from Lillehammer, Norway. ...
Dr. Ann DOUCETTE
Dr. Ann Doucette is Research Professor of Evaluation and Health Policy at The Ge ...
Dr. Jean Michel BLANQUER
In his role as Director General for Schools, a position which he has occupied since Januar ...
Dr. Naif AL-MUTAWA
Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa is a Kuwaiti clinical psychologist and creator of THE 99, the first group of ...
Mr. Ricardo Rene ROSAS DIAZ
Ricardo Rosas Díaz (born 1958), is a psychology lecturer at the Pontificia Universidad Cat ...
Dr José David WEINSTEIN CAYUELA
Dr. Weinstein holds a Sociology degree from the University of Chile and a PhD in Sociology from ...
Mr. Brian STECHER
Brian Stecher is a Senior Social Scientist and Acting Director of the RAND Education program. Hi ...
Prof. V.N. Rajasekharan PILLAI
Prof. V. N. Rajasekharan Pillai is the Vice-Chancellor of Indira Gandhi National Open University ...
Dr Barbara MEANS
Dr. Barbara Means directs the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI International, an indepen ...
Mr. Derek ROBERTSON
Derek Robertson’s career in education has seen him work as a primary school teacher, a staff tut ...
Mrs. Jenny LEWIS
Jenny has served schools and their students for twenty five years, and as principal led staff an ...
Mr. Dan BUCKLEY
For establishing the world’s first 1:1 laptop model to use a learner-led competency curriculum m ...
Mr. John GREGG
John Gregg is currently the director of Education Above All, a Qatar-based NGO with a focu ...
Dr. Allan GOODMAN
Dr. Allan Goodman is the sixth President of the Institute of International Education (IIE) ...
Dr Katerine BIELACZYC
Dr. Katerine Bielaczyc's expertise is in the area of teacher and student learning and epistemic ...
Prof. Sugata Mitra
Professor Mitra works in the areas of cognitive science, information science and educational tec ...
Dr Paul Kim
Dr. Paul Kim is Chief Technology Officer and Assistant Dean for Stanford University School of Ed ...
Mr Peter Williams
Peter Williams is a graduate in English from the University of Exeter. Following a brief spell a ...
Dr Ahmed Dewidar
Ahmed Dewidar is a Senior Education and Quality Assurance Consultant who is currently working wi ...
Dr Susan J Bodilly
Susan Bodilly, PhD in Public Policy, has worked at RAND for more than 29 years. Her primary rese ...
Ms Katy WEBLEY
Katy Webley is Head of Education for Save the Children UK, and a member of the Policy Senior Lea ...
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Shamshad Akhtar - Vice-president for the Mid East and N. Africa region World Bank
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WISE debate at WSMCY - Questioning Assessment
Narrow assessment goals kill creativity, so how should we assess what children understand? One o ...
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2010 Summit Concludes with Three Main Announcements
Over three days, the WISE Summit witnessed a diverse range of innovations, experiences and emerg ...