Finding Balance in the Online Marketplace for Giving
Finding Balance in the Online Marketplace for Giving When markets are open, and new economic transparencies (like microlending websites) impact reputation, balancing the market between givers and receivers can be difficult. More and more websites are born facing that challenge. Making any online...
Equipping the Next Generation to Propel Us Forward: The Cordes Innovation Awards and Ashoka U
The Cordes Foundation’s search for impact led it to partner with the Ashoka U program to co-develop the Ashoka U - Cordes Innovation Award for recognizing the most innovative approaches to social entrepreneurship education. The first year of “Ashoka U – Cordes Innovation Awards” were launched in...
MITx: One Small Step for MIT, One Giant Leap for Higher Education
According to Marina Kim, Ashoka U's co-founder and executive director, "Ashoka is working closely with universities that are at the forefront of innovation in Higher Education and are looking to develop a generation of students with the skills to be changemakers. Technology plays a key role in...
Free University Courses for All: Ashoka Fellow’s University of the People is a Smart Way to Make the Future
Shai Reshef, president and founder of the University of the People, a nonprofit institution based in Pasadena, California, is bringing free online higher education to millions of young people around the world. Most recently, this Ashoka Fellow was nominated to Wired U.K.’s first-ever Smart List by...
Leading the way to 'Transformative Education': Lunch with Ashoka's CEO and Teacher-Changemakers
Ashoka recently announced its inagural class of Changemakers Schools. These schools—and, more importantly, the educators within them—proving that teaching skills like empathy, leadership and teamwork are what truly prepare students for the new global economy. Here, Laura White, a member of the...
Röselidsskolan
Röselidskolan is a public Swedish primary school that is successfully working to bring entrepreneurship and real-life problem solving into the school curriculum. They are simultaneously changing Gråbo as a municipality, and the perception of education as a whole. With an education based around the...
Making Imagination an Academic Goal
Ashoka Fellow Aleta Margolis, founder and executive director of the Center for Inspired Teaching, discusses rethinking the role teachers and schools to bring out something exceptional in every child. In this In this TEDx Talk, Margolis begins by asking: What price do we pay when we fail to set-up...
Breaking Down the Barriers to Education for Women
In spite of their demographic diversity, followers of Islam are often lumped into a single category that denigrates the religion and stereotypes more than a billion people. We have seen time and again that social entrepreneurs see more than the symptoms of the problem and are driven to address the...
Maria Mendes Abreu, after years of studying children's literature and teaching primary school, is striking at the roots of illiteracy by training teachers to look at the tasks of reading and writing through children's eyes.
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