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Last time on WISE On Air we were joined by three 2022 WISE Awards Winning Project holders, Janhvi Kanoria, Susan Mtana, and Tyler Samstag. We brought these innovators on the show because we’re looking to decipher what does it take to unlock the potential of great ideas to transform education. In a rapidly evolving world, it can be argued that traditional education models are being constantly disrupted with the advent of new technological breakthroughs. In 2023 alone we’re seeing massive strides with A.I. and machine learning for example. In fact, according to a report by HolonIQ, the global education market is estimated to reach $10 trillion by 2030, with a growing number of startups and investors seeking to revolutionize the sector. As we navigate these changes, it's important to understand what sets successful education initiatives apart. What can we learn from the ones that have made a real impact? In this second part episode, we'll dive into some of the groundbreaking solutions that are reshaping educa

Featuring Susan Mtana of Kenya-based Kidogo, Tyler Samstag of Pittsburgh-based Remake Learning, and Janhvi Kanoria of Qatar-based Education Above All. In today's rapidly changing world, the traditional model of education is being challenged like never before. New technologies, changing social and economic conditions, and a multitude of other factors are reshaping the way we learn and teach. With these changes come novel initiatives and solutions that are tackling pressing challenges of learning in unconventional ways. But what sets a great solution apart and leads to real impact? What can we learn from those who have succeeded where others struggled? In this two-part episode, we'll be speaking with six innovators behind the 2022 WISE Awards winning projects to learn what it takes to make a great idea a reality and delve deeper into some of the things they wish they knew when they set out to change education. Together with Susan Mtana, Tyler Samstag, and Janhvi Kanoria, we discussed topics including: -

This episode is the third and final of the Unmute Education limited series dedicated to raising the volume on the education conversation in the leadup to the WISE 2021 Global Summit taking place in Doha, Qatar and online on 7-9 December 2021. Featured in this podcast is Marc Brackett, author of Permission to Feel, and the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University. Marc has published over 120 scholarly articles on the role of emotions and emotional intelligence in learning, decision making, creativity, relationships, health, and performance. He is the lead developer of RULER, an evidence-based, systemic approach to social and emotional learning that has been adopted by more than two thousand schools, pre-K through high school, across the United States and in other countries.   Tune in to this third and final episode of the Unmute Education limited series to hear Marc Brackett’s discussion alongside host and CEO of WISE, Stavro

This episode is the second of the Unmute Education limited series dedicated to raising the volume on the education conversation in the leadup to the WISE 2021 Global Summit taking place in Doha, Qatar and online on 7-9 December 2021. Featured in this podcast is Amel Karboul, the founding CEO of the Education Outcomes Fund, a ground-breaking international effort to change the way that education is funded particularly in developing country contexts. The effort is championed by amongst others Gordon Brown, the former prime minister of the United Kingdom, and Sir Ronald Cohen co-founder of Apax Partners, one of Europe’s most successful Venture Capital Firms. Prior to taking on her role with the Education Outcomes Fund Amel held leadership positions at Mercedes-Benz, DaimlerChrysler; and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). She also served in her native Tunisia as Minister of Tourism from 2014 to 2015 during the country’s transition to democracy. She was the first woman to occupy that position and the youngest

This episode is the first of the Unmute Education limited series dedicated to raising the volume on the education conversation in the leadup to the WISE 2021 Global Summit taking place in Doha, Qatar and online on 7-9 December 2021. Featured in this podcast is Victoria Ibiwoye, is the Founder of OneAfricanChild, a youth-led organization with a mission to create opportunities in underserved communities and unleash the potential in young people through global citizenship education programs. She also served as the Youth Representative of the SDG-Education 2030 Steering Committee. As the world slowly emerges from the shadows of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important that we not only take stock of the largely negative impact on education with the prolonged lockdowns and school closures, but also look ahead to the challenges that confront us, most of which long predate the pandemic, and the opportunities that are becoming available to solve some of the world’s most intractable challenges, not least of which is t

Africa is the birthplace of humanity. The place where Homo Sapiens evolved language, built increasingly complex tools, and took the first tentative steps on a journey that would see our species populate the entire world. If Africa represents humanity’s distant past, it also, in many respects, represents its future. Most of the world’s growth in population today, and for the foreseeable future, is taking place in Africa. The UN projects that by 2090, around half of all children under the age of 15 will be in Africa. It does not take a giant leap of the imagination to conclude that the education of those children is of crucial importance, not just for the continent itself, but for the entire world. To help us understand the state of education in Africa, President and Co-Founder of NewGlobe, Shannon May joins Host and CEO of WISE, Stavros Yiannouka, in conversation. NewGlobe is the largest supporter of technology-enabled schools across Africa, supporting national and state governments and communities acr

Europe is the world's wealthiest continent and the first region in the world to modernize. The scientific and industrial revolutions began in Europe and the first recognizably modern administrative states were established there, with the possible exception of China. Europe's fragmentation into competing empires and nation-states is seen as both a strength and a weakness. Given the historical context, it is not surprising that Europe's policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic was far from uniform, even in the collective structures of the EU. When it comes to education priorities for the post-pandemic era, can Europe reprise its role as the world's policy innovation laboratory? To help answer this question, Senior Analyst at the OECD Center for Educational Research & Innovation, Tracey Burns joins us in the latest episode of our special series focusing on post-pandemic priorities for the future of education. ------------------------------------------------- Relevant links: Trends shaping education: https:

Claudia Costin is the founder and director of the Center for Excellence and Innovation in Education Policies (FGV CEIPE), a think and do tank within Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), a leading private University in Brazil, where she is a professor. Claudia was until 2018 a visiting Professor at the Harvard School of Education. Brazil is the most populous country and the largest economy in Latin America. It is home to over 650 million people, about a third of whom live in just one country. The region is currently where some of the world’s most intractable challenges confronting the world are present in their most acute forms. For example, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America & the Caribbean, the region is the most unequal part of the world, notwithstanding positive economic growth. Claudia Costin joins us to help navigate through recent developments in Brazil and the broader Latin American region, and to discuss post-pandemic priorities for the future of education in the regi

Berlin Fang is an education columnist and currently serves as the Director of Instructional Design at Abilene Christian University. His major interests are faculty acceptance of educational technology, the diffusion of innovation, managed change, academic integrity, the ethnography of technology use in higher education, and cross-cultural comparisons of education. Prior to this, he was the Associate Director of North Institute at Oklahoma Christian University, Instructional Design Specialist for Marshall University, and program manager for the American Management Association (China). He graduated from Syracuse University with an M.S. in instructional design and Nanjing University with an M.A. in English Language and Literature. In this episode, we sit down with Berlin to discuss China’s post-pandemic priorities for the future of education. China is the world’s most populous country and its second-largest economy. Current growth trends suggest that China is poised to overtake the United States as the world’

Rukmini Banerji is the CEO of the Pratham Education Foundation, India's and the world's largest education NGO. Rukmini has been with Pratham since 1996 and has extensive field experience in program design implementation in both rural and urban settings. She also led Pratham's research and assessment activities, including the groundbreaking ASER report from 2005 to 2014. In this episode, we sit down with Rukmini to discuss India’s post-pandemic priorities for the future of education. India is the world’s second-most populous country and is projected to overtake China in just four years to become the world’s most populous country with 1.45 billion people. India already has the world’s largest school-age population: around 250 million children aged between 5-15. That’s 20% of the world’s total and to put that figure further into perspective, the equivalent figure for China is around 170 million. How India will cope with the education fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic will have profound implications not jus

Rebecca Winthrop is a senior fellow and co-director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. Her research focuses on education globally, with special attention to the skills young people need to thrive in work, life, and as constructive citizens. She advises governments, international institutions, foundations, civil society organizations, and corporations on education issues. Winthrop has authored numerous articles, reports, books, and book chapters, including most recently Leapfrogging Inequality: Remaking Education to Help Young People Thrive with Adam Barton and Eileen McGivney. Her work has been featured in the BBC, Newsweek, Time Ideas, NPR, Economist, and The Financial Times, among others. Rebecca joins us to discuss Brooking's new taskforce assembled to guide the next generation of community schools in the US, the scale of the learning loss in the US, building back better, and much more. Listen to the full episode for a special section featuring Global Education Edito

2020 is a year that can be described in infinite ways, but one thing is for sure is that on top of the new obstacles introduced by the ongoing crisis, many of the long-term challenges we have faced in our education systems have been exposed or even exacerbated. In response to this, for the past year, we saw a global community of educators, practitioners, policymakers, and organizations come together on multiple occasions to share their experiences and discuss solutions not only in terms of an emergency response to the pandemic but even addressing longstanding issues that have plagued many educations systems around the world. In this episode, we take a look back at some of 2020's key takeaways from our 20+ episodes released amid COVID-19 and beyond. ------------------------------------------------- Check out more from WISE and send us your thoughts! Website: www.wise-qatar.org Twitter: twitter.com/WISE_Tweets Instagram: wiseqatar Facebook: www.facebook.com/wiseqatar/ Linkedin: bit.ly/2JKThYf

Sherrie Westin serves as President of Social Impact and Philanthropy at education nonprofit Sesame Workshop, the organization behind Sesame Street.  In her time at Sesame Workshop, she has led countless efforts to serve vulnerable children through mass media and targeted initiatives in the United States and around the world. Westin led Sesame’s efforts to win a historic $100M grant from the MacArthur Foundation to fund the largest early childhood intervention in the history of humanitarian response. With an additional $100M grant from The Lego Foundation, this initiative has expanded to Bangladesh. She was named a “Leading Global Thinker” by Foreign Policy Magazine and one of Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business”.  Sherrie joins us to discuss the legacy of Sesame Workshop, how they are adapting to the new normal, and what we can do to continue building greater resilience in children.

Can VR transform education? HTC China President Alvin Wang Graylin has over 20 years of experience in tech business management, including 15 years focusing on industries in greater China. During that time, you could consider him a serial entrepreneur - he’s founded four venture-backed startups in the mobile and internet space covering social media, ad tech, search, big data, and media. Additionally, he has held $100+ million P&L roles at public companies such as Intel and Trend Micro. Alvin received his BS in electrical engineering from the University of Washington, MS in computer science from MIT, and MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. In this episode, Alvin talks about how VR has evolved throughout the years, how we can use it to harness the potential of virtual learning, and how it gives us the ability to restore our human interaction in the virtual space. ------------------------------------------------- Relevant links: HTC: https://www.vive.com/eu/ Vive XR Suite: https://www.vive.com/cn/xr-suite

Meet the 2020 WISE Awards winners: https://bit.ly/3kNrBTq ------------------------------------------------- Nisha Ligon is the Co-Founder and CEO of 2017 WISE Awards winning education project, Ubongo - the leading kids edutainment company across Africa. Ubongo leverages the reach of mass media, the stickiness of stories, animation and music, and the interactivity of mobile technology to bring millions of kids across Africa fun learning at low cost. Ubongo’s multiplatform edutainment reaches millions of kids aged 3-14 weekly on TV, radio, mobile and web. ------------------------------------------------- Relevant links: Ubongo: https://www.ubongo.org ------------------------------------------------- Check out more from WISE and send us your thoughts! Website: www.wise-qatar.org Twitter: twitter.com/WISE_Tweets Instagram: wiseqatar Facebook: www.facebook.com/wiseqatar/ Linkedin: bit.ly/2JKThYf

With societies more fluid and fragmented than ever, how can we help young people feel confident in their own identities? Leading members of Karanga: The Global Alliance for SEL and Life Skills, discuss why Social-Emotional Learning is more important than ever in today's world. Featuring: - Jennifer Adams, Chair - Chair - OECD Study in Social-Emotional Skills - Joanne McEachen - Founder and CEO, The Learner First - Louka Parry - Founder and CEO, The Learning Future - Dominic Regester - Program Director, Salzburg Global Seminar ------------------------------------------------- Relevant links: Karanga: https://karanga.org OECD: http://www.oecd.org/education/ceri/social-emotional-skills-study/ Salzburg Global Seminar: https://www.salzburgglobal.org The Learner First: https://thelearnerfirst.com The Learning Future: https://www.thelearningfuture.com ------------------------------------------------- Check out more from WISE and send us your thoughts! Website: www.wise-qatar.org Twitter: twitter.com/WISE_Tweets

2020 WISE Accelerator: bit.ly/2020-21WISEAcceleratorCohort ------------------------------------------------- This episode’s guest is George Straschnov, Managing Director of strategic education technology fund, Bisk Ventures. George has been a long-time lawyer and dove into venture capital since the early 2000s. Bisk Ventures is a corporate venture capital arm of Bisk Education who were some of the pioneers of what became the online MBA and helped bring a lot of major universities to transition their modules online.  George shares some of his insights on the edtech space and what he predicts for the future of learning post-COVID19. ------------------------------------------------- Relevant links: Follow Bisk: https://twitter.com/BiskVentures Bisk Ventures website: https://www.biskventures.com ------------------------------------------------- Check out more from WISE and send us your thoughts! Website: www.wise-qatar.org Twitter: twitter.com/WISE_Tweets Instagram: wiseqatar Facebook: www.facebook.com/wiseqa

Founder & Director of Escuela Nueva and long-time pioneer of innovation in the education space, Vicky Colbert joins us to discuss engaging students from vulnerable communities. Vicky has co-authored the worldwide renowned Escuela Nueva model which has been expanded across more than 19 countries since its inception. Her work has been recognized with several awards and distinctions, most notably winning the 2013 WISE Prize for Education. ------------------------------------------------- Relevant links: Follow Vicky: https://twitter.com/ColbertVicky Escuela Nueva: https://bit.ly/34DY1Ja ------------------------------------------------- Check out more from WISE and send us your thoughts! Website: www.wise-qatar.org Twitter: twitter.com/WISE_Tweets Instagram: wiseqatar Facebook: www.facebook.com/wiseqatar/ Linkedin: bit.ly/2JKThYf

Do children need to go back to school? And is it time to reassess or reconceptualize the traditional school model? Vice President and Chair of Learning Through Play of the LEGO Foundation, Bo Stjerne Thomsen joins us to share some of the insights from the foundation’s recent research findings in its white paper titled learning through play in schools. ------------------------------------------------- Relevant links: LEGO Foundation white paper on learning through play in school: https://bit.ly/2RXmFyi LEGO Foundation Report on Children, Tech, and Play: https://bit.ly/3mQe8LO Read Bo Stjerne's article - Do Children Need to Go 'Back to School': https://rb.gy/vw1rlv Follow Bo Stjerne: https://twitter.com/BoStjerne ------------------------------------------------- Check out more from WISE and send us your thoughts! Website: www.wise-qatar.org Twitter: twitter.com/WISE_Tweets Instagram: wiseqatar Facebook: www.facebook.com/wiseqatar/ Linkedin: bit.ly/2JKThYf

Tunisian entrepreneur, blogger, and human rights activist, Amira Yahyaoui joins us to discuss what the edtech space is doing to support and change the higher education landscape amid the back-to-school season. Amira is currently the Founder & CEO of Mos.com, an online platform that provides easier access to more than $135B available in college financial aid. Before starting Mos and entering tech, Amira set her sights in the nonprofit world. In the past and the present, she has worked tirelessly to promote human rights in Tunisia where she founded Al Bawsala, an award-winning NGO that continues to promote government transparency and accountability in Tunisia. ------------------------------------------------- Relevant links: Mos: https://www.mos.com Follow Amira: https://twitter.com/Mira404 ------------------------------------------------- Check out more from WISE and send us your thoughts! Website: www.wise-qatar.org Twitter: twitter.com/WISE_Tweets Instagram: wiseqatar Facebook: www.facebook.com/wiseqa