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How Melinda Emerson Is Educating and Empowering America’s Entrepreneurs

Business and Tech

I started SmallBizLadyUniversity.com to teach people how to sell and market online, how to use email marketing, and help develop social selling skills. What drove you to make the change to become your own boss? Don’t be afraid to pivot if your revenue model isn’t working.

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3 education innovations to watch in 2024 (hint: it’s not just about skills and AI)

Christensen Institute

Despite these growing proof points, efforts to improve education lean on mental models, theories of change, and investment strategies that routinely ignore the social side of opportunity. I think that’s because in most conversations about education innovation today, skills are the “what”, and tech-enabled efficiency is the “how.”

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As education choice grows, expect more school unbundling, but no great unbundling

Christensen Institute

Every few years it seems that hype grows around the possibilities of unbundling education. The latest fuel is the emergence of at least 14 states with education savings accounts (ESA) programs that allow families to pay for a variety of educational programs and supports from public funds.

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Smart Classrooms, Smarter Students: AI Avatars Changing Education Dynamics

The Human Factor

They can chat with us, answer our inquiries, and cause figuring out how to feel like a marvellous experience. It’s not supplanting our educators; it’s simply adding a touch of enjoyable to our examples. With DEEPBRAIN AI avatars, our study halls are changing to turn out to be really fascinating and invigorating.

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Podcast S4E91: Dave Birss – How to bring creativity into remote working

Idea to Value

Dave is a musician, educator, author and facilitator with a focus on improving creativity. We speak about how to keep up creativity in the times of remote working, and how to think laterally to live consciously again. 00:04:45 – How he found the power of education in creativity.

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How to keep the history of learner-centered education from repeating itself

Christensen Institute

Key point: This week, the Christensen Institute and Education Reimagined released a new paper on how value networks either help or hinder learner-centered models. In the 1920s, an educator named Helen Parkhurst set out to create a new instructional model to correct shortcomings in the relatively new system of age-graded public schools.

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The Future of Education – how to build future-ready education

etventure

To discuss these questions with some of the most innovative minds in this field, etventure has teamed up with CODE University in Berlin and invited them to the “Future of Education” event at wavespace Berlin. The future of education in times of digital change – what should it look like?