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Innovative Start-Ups Founded by Women

Destination Innovation

We need more women entrepreneurs. The founder and CEO is Nadine Hachach-Haram, an NHS surgeon who is also an entrepreneur and TED speaker. The system is designed for children aged 6 to 18 and is based on gamification ideas. Nadine Hachach-Haram. How many women role models in business can you name?

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Ending the UX Designer Drought

Boxes and Arrows

The user experience design field is booming. A quick search for “user experience” on indeed.com reveals over 5,000 jobs posted in the last 15 days (as of March 15, 2014) in the United States alone! Fortunately, there are a tremendous number of people interested in becoming a UX designer. And that’s the problem.

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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

I have written a fair amount about the new innovation era, offering a view on its future design. One that is jumping to a fresh cycle of innovative design. We are in the middle of it, some of you may not have noticed its impact and change but it is significant on the understanding of innovation, in it’s future design.

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Solving Brazil’s education paradox

Christensen Institute

In this piece, I’ll explain how implementing a pull strategy, in contrast to a push strategy, can help tackle some of the problems we see in Brazil’s education system. Leaders in Brazil are aware of this problem and worked hard to create a National Education System in 2014.

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Innovation in action: CBE and bridging the college to career gap

Christensen Institute

Welcome to our first “Innovation in action” piece, where we ask leaders in the postsecondary and K–12 space to discuss what innovation looks like within their community, institution, or school; why they believe it has the potential to help students; and tips for successful implementation or scale. Stay tuned!

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Behind Khan Academy and Arizona State University’s Khan World School launch

Christensen Institute

We have to create kind of an infrastructure for the world,” Khan said. But our infrastructure that has been in design for quite some time really thrived. The platform is designed to authenticate that someone’s work is, in fact, their own to eliminate cheating and verify mastery. “If Khan said. “We

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The Book that Took 9 Years to Publish

Stephen Shapiro

Hopefully this article will serve as inspiration (and education) to others who want to publish a book. June 2013: I started conversations with a client who expressed interest in co-building the toolkit. January 2014: I decided to take the work done to date and create a “product” to use with my clients.