Who's Free Edu Who

[chris macrae]

Breaking News 15 May- 2 earth moving meets this week- in washington DC with founder of ICAF largest/happiest youth summit process in world - in dubai with Hiro one of Japan's greatest partners in youth futures

Breaking Spring 2015 Stanford ONdemand

links DC 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Boston 0  1  2  3  4 SanF 1  2 Americas : H Pa Co Pe Ch Asia BRAC  Grameen Lucknow Africa Kenya 1 2 S.Africa 1 Yazmi could be the best news in 44 yearsof celebrating every way that elearning media can be the opposite of mass tv

 Breaking news from 43rd year of net generation search for open elearnng started in The Economist in 1972

world bank open learning campus searcheds for cousrea partners who dont see certificates as main end game of education

coursera segments on demand  http://blog.coursera.org/  https://coursera.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/1639240-about-on...

khan academy organises peer to peer competitions of health training

 summary of maharishi uni.doc, 556 KB - summary of the most exciting entrepreneur curriculum in 43 years since my father at The Economist encouraged coming net generation to search for open education' "Entrepreneurial Revolution" -please tell us if you know of other job creating curricula

We (elders and youth of the net generation) could now be valuing a wholly different planet  

 if top 11 who's Free Education who knew how to collaborate with each other  -job creation dairy- job creation maps from world bank  2030nowjimkim2transcripts.doc, 40 KB

:KHANac BRACAbed, CEUSoros ,SABlecher MITtbl NOBATYunus LUCKNOWGandhi ChinaMa NZDryden MEDIALABNegropronte COURSEraKoller

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since 1972 alumni of The Economist's Entrepreneurial Revolution have become convinced that education entrepreneurs models benefit most from collaboration and that open education is the key to the door of the net generation being 10 times more (or if we mess it up in next decade less ) productive and exponentially sustainable

we hope our guided tour of these 11 helps you  help youth celebrate the above conclusion - of course we are delighted to hear of nominations of other education collaboration entrepreneurs -rsvp [e-mail] but note our 11 are also chosen to complement each other

 

for example: Sal Khan's online academy demonstrates the most economic way to viralise any action learning that millions of youth could most gain from action networking, while

 

Sir Fazle Abed  has spent the last 43 years developing the ngo network that can claim all of these accolades:

biggest in terms of co-workers having served north of 100 million poorest mothers and children in Bangladesh and in the last decade or so replicating the model to many of the most seriously oppressed peoples on the planet

most collaborative

most educational driven in the action learning and job creating sense

the most value multiplying in terms of human livelihoods

consequently the curriculum of BRAC is worth more than any other curriculum that isnt yet available

BRAC is a curriculum replicator unlike any the real world 1 2 has ever seen. It now operates close to 50000 educational facilities -many no larger than a one room village school. Its metric has been to end generations of illiteracy among 15 million parents and 60 million children in rural Bangladesh. Paulo Freire was the first source Sir Fazle consulted on this part of BRAC's journey. Today BRAC also runs a city university one of whose unique features is every student spend an action learning term interning on a village innovation project

 

can you help norman macrae foundation call for a microeducationsummit before we lose the lifetime knowledge of these great educators (many way over 70) ?

 

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• what would a million youth most wish to see in a 6 weeks mooc guided tour to www.brac.net -if you can help our research please email [e-mail]  washington dc 1 301 881 1655

 

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http://ashishrajpal.blogspot.in/2013/05/wrong-to-education.html

 ASHISH RAJPAL, CEO IDISCOVERI http://legatum.mit.edu/content-library/ashish-rajpal-ceo-idiscoveri

Abstract:  The iDiscoveri case provides a background for discussion of several issues encountered by many start-ups and early stage companies:  learning from early mistakes, the importance of a competent and committed team, scaling up to service a huge market, possibilities of technology to enhance the product/service, and the challenge an entrepreneur faces in redefining his role as the business grows.

Since its founding in 2002, iDiscoveri had developed a progressive system of teaching methods and classroom materials that was markedly improving elementary school education for children in India.  By mid-2012, more than 650 public and private schools had adopted the system; some 400,000 K-7 students were using iDiscoveri’s materials.  Equally important, the fast-growing business had demonstrated scalability, was cash-flow positive, and was nearly profitable.

Looking forward, founder Ashish Rajpal saw no impediment to his intermediate goal of reaching one million students.  But one million was a tiny fraction of India’s 300 million elementary school students. There were millions more in Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Could the company scale up to the point of meeting the needs of these larger populations? 

Rajpal also wondered about his future role at iDiscoveri.  He had been deeply involved in every aspect of the business since its founding.  He knew this would have to change, but who had the ability and sense of mission to carry the company to a higher level?

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Case # 1-13-001

Publication date:  July 1, 2012

17 pages

Teaching note and videos available

 

We are currently building a platform to host the Legatum Case Studies library, to be launched in Spring 2014.  Until then, kindly contact Anna Omura,[e-mail], if you are interested in obtaining our current cases.

1. XSEED - Improve Education in Schools, Quality Teaching ...

   www.xseed.in/‎

   XSEED is a complete academic solution for schools to improve quality of education. It helps schools build quality in teaching and learning. Improvement in ...

2. Who we are - iDiscoveri Leadership

   www.idiscoverileadership.com/who-we-are.html‎

   Ashish Rajpal (Founder and CEO) quit an international corporate career to startiDiscoveri. Apart from managing iDiscoveri's growing organization, he creates ...

3. Ashish Rajpal, CEO iDiscoveri | MIT Legatum Center

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   Massachusetts Institute of...

   Abstract: The iDiscoveri case provides a background for discussion of several issues encountered by many ...

4. idiscoveri - XSEED

   www.idiscoverixseed.com/about_us.htm‎

   A DREAM TO UNLEASH EVERY MIND iDiscoveri is an audacious idea about utilizing education to awaken our society. Our schools. Our workplaces. A journey ...

5. XSEED Education | LinkedIn

   www.linkedin.com/company/idiscoveri-education-pvt-ltd‎

   LinkedIn

   The iDiscoveri Leadership business focuses on creating sustainable leadership in organizations through receptive learning and change to drive business ...

6. iDiscoveri Leadership | LinkedIn

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   LinkedIn

   iDiscoveri Leadership enables organizations develop sustainable leadership in individuals and teams through learning driven interventions aligned to business ...

7. Xseed education - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xseed_education‎

   Wikipedia

   Xseed education is an educational approach in India, developed by iDiscoveri, India. XSEED is a complete academic solution for schools. It raises student ...

8. Tedx Talk by Ashish Rajpal, iDiscoveri Education - YouTube

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   www.youtube.com/watch?v...‎

   YouTube

   Dec 15, 2011 - Uploaded by XSEED iDiscoveri

   Tedx Talk by Ashish Rajpal, iDiscoveri Education ... Ashish Rajpal, iDiscoveri on CNBC India's `Young ...

9. iDiscoveri XSEED Program (2010) - YouTube

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   YouTube

   Oct 26, 2010 - Uploaded by XSEED iDiscoveri

   XSEED is a Practical, Proven & Complete School Solution that improves both Quality & Returns.

10. iDiscoveri: An Innovative Startup That is Reviving Education in India ...

    yourstory.com/.../idiscoveri-an-innovative-startup-that-is-reviving-educa...‎

    Feb 27, 2012 - As an innovative education company with a mission to unleash the potential of every mind, iDiscoveri has a dual focus on learning and ...

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Bernardo wrote Yes as soon as I get to Miami i will move very fast, In march i will be in South Africa, Cote d`Ivory and R. of Congo. I will also have a back to office report (BTOR) to you

MARCH ON

Bernardo good luck -however if any brainstorm comes to you as to what poorest hispanic women first need to connect across the entire american continent on free mobile - eg safety line against abuse please tell naila as her march journey through ireland switzerland, LA and kenya is about signing up such a franchise and testing if carlos slim will lay on poorest womens terms

 

If you are passing through johannesburg tell us and we'll see if we can linkin taddy-by the way mostofa has just finished a week in lucknow understanding how they are redesigning entrepreneur and sustainability curriculum for 50000 children citymontessori   Jgandhi   globaledu

 

they are proposing taddy and they meet in august? to swap notes- I guess that is phase 1 of many phases at which youth summits swaps notes on entrepreneurship

 

I am desperately trying to involve china, korea, and japan in similar note swapping , and ultimately notes are effectively swapped when they are up in 9 minute modules like khan's

 

TO MOOCYUNUS OR NOT

I sort of feel that when yunus sees this page of khans he will see how far he's got behind with nursing college even as that becomes the first card for millions of youth to viralise; similarly millions of youth are now viralising jim kims knowhow on what  youth's most collaborative social movements really do below the radar

 

Also between now and june its essential www.microcredit.tv to share short transcripts on how the real microcredits work; if jim kim gets to the annual results conference and find they are still spamming the whole world bank with fund microcredits no matter what they are do there will be an unhappy ending to everything micro financial

 

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Jeroo Bilimoria founded www.aflatoun.org as founder of india orphanage she developed financial literacy curriculum now franchised out of amsterdam to 100 nation's primary schools in poor area; she also founded  http://www.childfinanceinternational.org/ also run out of amsterdam

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good time to map what university partnering networks connect what eg http://www.wun.ac.uk/about/members -glad to see 2 of my norther england alma maters centrally involved 

Also in this section

• Benefits
• Contacts
• How to become a member
• WUN Governance
• Members
  • Maastricht University
  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • The Pennsylvania State University
  • The University of Alberta
  • The University of Auckland
  • The University of Bergen
  • The University of Bristol
  • The University of Cape Town
  • The University of Leeds
  • The University of Rochester
  • The University of Sheffield
  • The University of Southampton
  • The University of Sydney
  • The University of Western Australia
  • The University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • The University of York
  • Zhejiang University

WUN Governance

Secretariat

WUN is managed by a Secretariat, which is responsible for the operations, communications and strategy implementation of the network.

Company Secretarial and financial management services are currently provided by specialists from the University of Leeds.

Executive Director: Professor John Hearn

General Manager: Nicholas Haskins

Company Secretary: Helena Smith

Partnership Board

The Partnership Board provides entrepreneurial leadership of the company within a framework of prudent and effective controls which enables risk to be assessed and managed. The Board sets the strategic direction and vision of the company, its culture, its values and the behaviours it wishes to promote in conducting its business. 

The Board comprises the Presidents, Vice-Chancellors or Rectors of the member universities and the WUN Executive Director. Collectively, the Board has considerable international influence and ensures that WUN is recognised as a leading global higher education network.

Chair: Dr Indira Samarasekera, President, The University of Alberta

Steering Group

• Sir Keith Burnett, Vice-Chancellor, The University of Sheffield
• Dr Rodney Erickson, President, The Pennsylvania State University
• Professor John Hearn, WUN Executive Director
• Professor Stuart McCutcheon, Vice-Chancellor, The University of Auckland
• Professor Don Nutbeam, The University of Southampton
• Dr Max Price, Vice-Chancellor, The University of Cape Town (Vice-Chair)
• President Joseph Sung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Members 

• Chancellor Rebecca Blank, The University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Sir Keith Burnett, Vice-Chancellor, The University of Sheffield
• Professor Koen Lamberts, Vice-Chancellor, The University of York
• Professor Paul Johnson, Vice-Chancellor, The University of Western Australia
• Sir Alan Langlands, The University of Leeds
• Professor Jianhua Lin, President, Zhejiang University
• Professor Dag Rune Olsen, Rector, The University of Bergen
• Professor Dr Martin Paul, President, Maastricht University
• President Joel Seligman, President, The University of Rochester
• Professor Michael Spence, Vice-Chancellor, The University of Sydney
• Sir Eric Thomas, Vice-Chancellor, The University of Bristol

 

Academic Advisory Group

The Academic Advisory Group is responsible for overseeing the academic portfolio of the Network and advising the Partnership Board on strategic direction. It is made up senior administrators, usually at the level of Vice-President or Deputy Vice-Chancellor with responsibility for the research or internationalisation priorities of the member universities.  It is the task of this group to draw the threads from individual member universities together so as to nurture high impact communities tackling issues of global importance.

Chair: Professor Robyn Owens, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), The University of Western Australia

Steering Group

• Professor Murray Gray, Vice-Provost (Academic) and Associate Vice-President (Research), The University of Alberta
• Professor Sian Griffiths, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Professor Peter Lennie, Provost, The University of Rochester (Deputy Chair)
• Professor Tom van Veen, Dean, Internationalisation of Education, Maastricht University
• Professor Danie Visser, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, The University of Cape Town

Members

• Professor Jane Harding, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), The University of Auckland
• Professor David Hogg, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research & Innovation, The University of Leeds
• Professor Rebecca Hughes, Pro Vice‐Chancellor for International, The University of Sheffield
• Professor Anne Christine Johannessen, Vice‐Rector for International Relations, The University of Bergen
• Professor Nick Lieven, Pro‐Vice‐Chancellor, The University of Bristol
• Professor Deborah Smith, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, The University of York
• Professor Guido Podestá, Vice-Provost for Globalization, The University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Professor Yonghua Song, Executive Vice President for International Relations, Zhejiang University
• Professor Mark Spearing, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International), The University of Southampton
• Professor Martin Trethewey, WUN AAG representative, The Pennsylvania State University

 

Institutional Coordinators

Each WUN member university appoints an administrator to manage the implementation of the WUN strategies and programs on campus and to serve as the main contact point for network initiatives. This group shares information on collaborative opportunities and develops WUN’s research programs. Your local WUN Coordinator should be your first point of contact for information on WUN. Contact details for your WUN Coordinator can be found on the WUN member pages.

Associated research groups

• ACCWA
• Climate Change in the Media
• Ensuring Sustainable and Responsible Production of Healthy Food fro...
• Establishment of a WUN Language Assessment Research Network (LARN)
• Global China Group
• Global Farm Platforms for Optimisation of Grazing Livestock Product...
• Ideas and Universities
• Impact of land use change on future water quality
• Migration with and without children: Causes and economic, social, a...
• New Technologies & Enhanced Techniques for Water Resource Asses...
• Performing China on the Global Stage
• State and Society and the Uses of Culture in China
• World-class Universities, Publication and Research Assessment: Reth...
• WUN Cognitive Communications Consortium
• WUN Oral Health Sciences
• WUN Spintronics Consortium

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here is version of wiki of 50000 alumni of chnage the world as at 31 march 2014 - for updates live at coursera you will need an alumni login -25000 live youth are invited to take this benchmark and re-edited it on Road to Atlanta Nov 2015

Changetheworld-001:Main

Please remember that anyone with a Coursera ID may edit this page. Therefore, respect and courtesy toward your fellow students is advised.

Contents  [hide]  1 How to Change the World: Home Page 1.1 Course Glossary 1.2 How to put your stuff in this Wiki 1.3 Additional resources supplied by students 1.3.1 Social Goods and Commons 1.3.2 Poverty and Development 1.3.3 Climate change and sustainability 1.3.3.1 Ocean 1.3.3.2 Energy 1.3.3.3 Solar Energy 1.3.3.4 Denier 1.3.4 Disease and Global Health Care 1.3.5 Women, Education and Social Change 1.4 Toolkits and other resources 1.5 Course Forums, Student Ideas & Projects 1.6 Events in cooperation with this course 1.7 After This Course

How to Change the World: Home Page

• https://class.coursera.org/changetheworld-001

Course Glossary

• Course Glossary

How to put your stuff in this Wiki

• Learn to edit this Wiki in 20 minutes

Additional resources supplied by students

Social Goods and Commons

• On the Commons: A commons movement strategy center.

Poverty and Development

• How The Economic Machine Works The best explanation of the economy that most people didn't understand.
• Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance speech of Muhammad Yunus of Grameen.
• When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Po... by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikker
• A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis by David Rieff
• http://halfinten.org The Campaign to Cut Poverty in Half in Ten Years
• #2030now -the social movement of end poverty of Jim Kim : World Bank and videos week 2
• Who is Really Dependent upon Welfare, They're Wealthier Than You Think (http://www.upworthy.com/who-is-really-dependent-on-welfare-theyre-w...)

Climate change and sustainability

• Greening Neighborhoods promotes, educates, and supports neighborhood efforts to conserve our natural resources, save money, and reduce dependency on nonrenewable resources
• Ray Anderson, The business logic of sustainability TED Talk discussing the business logic of sustainability based on a case study of the company led by Mr Anderson, with a poetic reference to stewardship for the next generations.
• important events in the history of climate change science
• Tales of ice-bound wonderlands An amazing and emotional Paul Nicklen TED talk about what melting of ice will lead us to

Ocean

• Oceans are playing a very important role in absorbing carbon
• The ocean environment is unquestionably linked to human life.

Energy

Energy University offered by the main global corporate partner of Energy Social Business of Muhammad Yunus

Solar Energy

• An October 25, 2012 article: Solar Energy Is Ready. The U.S. Isn't
• solar panel installation: an experience

Denier

• Dark Money Who funds climate change deniers?
• How to talk to an ostrich Know any folks who stick their heads in the sand about climate change or clean energy? How about your skeptical brother-in-law, or know-it-all aunt? Here’s how you could answer if they try to speak ostrich to you!
• [Mechants of Doubt] (http://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/) The troubling story of how a cadre of influential scientists have clouded public understanding of scientific facts to advance a political and economic agenda.

Disease and Global Health Care

• Before World Bank Jim Kim co-director with Paul Farmer of Partners in Health
• book co-edited by Jim Kim on Reimagining Global Health

Women, Education and Social Change

• Room to Read For people interested in education and literacy in developing and impoverished countries, check out Room to Read. Room to Read is doing great work for underprivileged children around the world and has already, in just 14 years, helped 8 million children become literate, given scholarships to over 18,000 girls, built over 2,000 libraries, and created over 450 schools. What they have accomplished is amazing, but with our help, they can do even more. Check them out at www.roomtoread.org. These guys know how to change the world!

• Malala Yousafzai address to UN Youth Assembly Education activist Malala Yousafzai marks her 16th birthday, on Friday, 12 July 2013 at the United Nations by giving her first high-level public appearance and statement on the importance of education. Additional updates in a blog post here and in a video here.

Toolkits and other resources

• Changing Habbits a tool for calculating your carbon footprint, based on several aspects of your daily life (eating, electricity use, commuting, traveling, etcetera)
• Human-Centered Design Toolkit, for those who want to innovate for social good
• OpenIDEO, a platform where people design solutions for social issues - challenged based innovation for social good, a global community designs solution to change the world. Solutions are open source, so for everybody to consider implementing. Issues covered include environment, poverty, sanitation, maternal health and much more.
• Who are your favorite CTW linkins?
• ?Top 10 Youth Jobs Social Movement networks of Muhammad Yunus

Course Forums, Student Ideas & Projects

I set up 3 separate links below to organize information in this course that can't be effectively maintained by the Course Forums. What is missing a well-organized class notes from the video lectures. Is there any notes taker willing to put out his/her work?

1. Categories of the Discussion Forum threads
2. Repository of Ideas and Summaries of issues of concern
3. Student initiated Projects of Social Goods

To communicate any concern of this Wiki use this thread:

• Please use this "new" wiki page to post your issues of concern

Events in cooperation with this course

• Sookmyung Women's University(Seoul, Korea) uses this course as blen...

After This Course

• A website for collaboration after this course
• On Tuesday, March 11, Idealist will launch a new network—online and on the ground—that will help people everywhere connect and take action on any issue that concerns them, locally or globally, online and in person. For more info, and to sign up:http://www.idealist.org/March11
• blog of youth jobs summits as a social movement please tell us if you can co-blog on behalf of any future youth summits
• survey of youth creating jobs networks
• documents on social movement of youth jobs summits
• [Climate Change in Four Dimensions 10-week MOOC starting April 8, 2014] (https://www.coursera.org/course/4dimensions)
• UN Envoy for Youth - Ideas Forum
• YouthWorldBanking

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@ The Economist's epicentre of Entrepreneurial Revolution, 1984

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https://www.facebook.com/bransoncentre/app_249993358447781 

• The Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship - South Africa

  The Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship - Caribbean

  Non-Profit Organization

  
  The Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship provides "Virgin flavoured" business skills, mentorship and access to networks to entrepreneurs with businesses.

  
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  Screw Business As Usual
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