Education Technology

Children of migrant workers attend a class in a container used as a classroom during an after-school programme initiated by Compassion for Migrant Children (CMC) in Beijing May 25, 2011. According to their official website, CMC is a nonprofit organization founded in early 2006 to help China's urban migrant children, primarily through offering social and educational programs. REUTERS/Petar Kujundzic (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION)

Education Plus Development

Education innovations in Asia: 5 takeaways from Taiwan’s NXTEducator Summit

Lauren Ziegler

Thursday, January 9, 2020

Street signs are pictured at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) in San Diego, California, February 28, 2013. Looming sequestration cuts are expected to adversely effect scientific research in San Diego. REUTER/Mike Blake (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION HEALTH SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) - GM1E9310LEH01

Podcast Episode

How universities can help tackle global challenges

Maysa Jalbout and Fred Dews

Friday, November 29, 2019

Students take notes from their iPads at the Steve Jobs school in Sneek August 21, 2013. The Steve Jobs schools in the Netherlands are founded by the O4NT (Education For A New Time) organisation, which provides the children with iPads to help them learn with a more interactive experience. REUTERS/Michael Kooren (NETHERLANDS - Tags: SOCIETY EDUCATION SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) - GM1E98L1HOU01

Report

How ed-tech can help leapfrog progress in education

Emiliana Vegas, Lauren Ziegler, and Nicolas Zerbino

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Newark Prep Charter School students listen to academic coach, Robbie Garland, while taking part in an advisory session at the school in Newark, New Jersey April 16, 2013. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION) - TM4E94Q0XVB01

The Avenue

AI is coming to schools, and if we’re not careful, so will its biases

Andre M. Perry and Nicol Turner Lee

Thursday, September 26, 2019

Reports

Boys play at a school in Yemen's capital Sanaa sheltering them and their families after the conflict forced them to flee their areas from the Houthi-controlled northern province of Saada August 4, 2015. A Saudi-led Arab alliance launched a military campaign on March 26 to end Houthi control over much of Yemen and to return President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi from exile. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah - GF20000013228

Report

How playful learning can help leapfrog progress in education

Rebecca Winthrop

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Park Hye-ri, 28, a startup business program manager, who spent time at Prison Inside Me, a mock prison facility, uses a laptop at a cafe in Incheon, South Korea, November 13, 2018. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji SEARCH "PRISON RETREAT" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC148F7054E0

Higher Education

The failings of online for-profit colleges: Findings from student borrower focus groups

Robin Howarth and Lisa Stifler

Thursday, March 28, 2019

A school bus sits parked along a street in the Queens borough of New York January 16, 2013. For the first time in 34 years, New York City bus drivers went on strike, stranding up to 152,000 students in the nation's largest public school system on sleet-soaked Wednesday morning. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - GM1E91H00RI01

Education

The opportunities and risks of K-12 student placement algorithms

Matt Kasman and Jon Valant

Thursday, February 28, 2019

Primary school students wear virtual reality (VR) headsets inside a classroom in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan province, China March 14, 2018. Picture taken March 14, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT. - RC16E4321880

Education Technology

Why we need to rethink education in the artificial intelligence age

John R. Allen

Thursday, January 31, 2019

Rachel Wilson (L), of Rockville, Maryland, speaks with Yash Parbhu of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania while learning about the code for some of Google's new APIs at the Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco June 26, 2014. Women attendees constituted 20% of the conference's attendance this year, up from 8% last year. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) - GM1EA6R0IP701

Workforce Development

The role of AI in education and the changing US workforce

Elizabeth Mann Levesque

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Blog Posts

Children attend their first class immediately after they got registered at the school in Hazema North Raqqa, Syria August 21, 2017. Picture taken August 21, 2017. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra - RC14C09853B0

Education Plus Development

4 types of data necessary for outcome-based financing

Emily Gustafsson-Wright and Izzy Boggild-Jones

Friday, September 20, 2019

An electroimpact automated fiber placement machine, which lays down carbon fiber strips onto the 777X spar, seen during a media tour of the Boeing 777X at the Boeing Composite Wing Center in Everett, Washington, U.S., February 27, 2019. Picture taken February 27, 2019. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson - RC1B1FA69A40

Up Front

The differing impact of automation on men and women's work

Marcus Casey and Sarah Nzau

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Teacher Kristi Rahn (C) helps to first grade students during a computer lesson in school in Tallinn September 25, 2012. Estonian Tiger Leap Foundation has launched a program called "ProgeTiiger" where Estonian students will be introduced to computer programming and creating web and mobile applications. According to representatives from the foundation, the program will start with students in the first grade, which starts around the age of 7, and will continue through a student's final years of public school, around age 15. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins (ESTONIA - Tags: EDUCATION SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) - GM1E89P1PG901

Education Plus Development

How teachers can learn from artificial intelligence

Alina von Davier and Esther Care

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

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Events

2019

May

Past Event

Global Research Network on Terrorism and Technology: The inaugural conference

8:30 AM - 5:45 PM EDT

How to improve cybersecurity career and technical education

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT

Development Seminar | No free lunch: Using technology to improve the efficacy of school feeding programmes

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST

New Delhi, India

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Leapfrogging Inequality

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Experts

Jordan Shapiro

Nonresident Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education

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Rebecca Winthrop

Co-director - Center for Universal Education

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

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Multimedia

Podcast Episode

Ending global poverty: Education and digital technology

Adrianna Pita, Rebecca Winthrop, and Laurence Chandy

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Podcast Episode

MOOCs, college costs, and the future of higher education

Stuart M. Butler and Fred Dews

Friday, May 8, 2015

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