Education Policy review, Leadership Programs and Envisioning Workshops

Apr25
2012 Leave a Comment Written by IgnacioR

Education Impact has delivered more than 150 engagements in 35 different countries since its inception in 2008. Below you will find some of the experiences our Fellows have recently had.

Dan Buckley talks about the Envisioning Workshops he has delivered as a Fellow of Education Impact to several Ministries of Education around the world.

One of Jenny Lewis’s main area ofexpertise lyes in the development of Leadership Programmes like the ones she has delivered in Tanzania for the TZ21 project as well as many other Ministries of Education in a variety of other countries.

Gavin Dykes has carried out strategic reviews of Education Policies for Ministries of Education across the World and has also carried out several other engagements for Education Impact in Qatar and Azerbaijan to name but two other countries.

Posted in Engagements, Meet the Fellows - Tagged dan buckley, education, Education Policy, gavin dykes, jenny lewis, leadership, workshop

The future of Education: Essential Skills, Creativity and Social consciousness

Mar16
2012 Leave a Comment Written by IgnacioR

In our first Meet the Fellow’s series we get to hear about two people that dedicate their life’s to providing the tools and methods to young people so they are better prepared for the challenges they will face in their futures.

Dan Buckley explains to us the challenge of trying to implement a successful and scalable Essential Skills program in schools around the UK.

Gavin Dykes believes that in empowering young people not being listened to sufficiently in this essential process in changing the education system paradigms that must occur.

Get to know more about Dan, Gavin and the rest of the Fellowship of Education Impact.

Posted in Meet the Fellows

Enabling 21st Century Education through Technology Workshop

Jan11
2012 Leave a Comment Written by IgnacioR

Location

London Marriot Hotel Kensington,
147c Cromwell Road,London, SW5 0TH
Nabuco Bar and Veneto Suite
Conference Room

Date / Time

Thursday 12th January 2012,
1.00 pm – 5.00 pm

Agenda

1.00 – 1.30pm | Coffee & Cookies and networking time at “Nabuco Bar”

1.30 – 1.40pm | Dr. Sabine Huber

EMEA Pedagogical Consultant, Education Market Platforms Group, Intel GmbH

1.40 – 2.00pm | Danny Arati

Education Manager Europe, Corporate Affairs Group, Intel Corporation (UK) Ltd

1.00 – 2.30pm | José Canavarro

Professor of education at Universidade de Coimbra, Member of the Portuguese Parliament and former secretary of state for educational and Administration

2.30 – 3.10pm | Haif Bannayan | Education Impact Fellow

3.10 – 3.50pm | Oystein Johannessen | Education Impact Fellow

3.50 – 4.30pm | Jenny Lewis | Education Impact Fellow

4.30 – 5.00pm | Networking time

Check our Event Page for the “Enabling 21st Century Education through Technology” workshop.

Posted in Broadcasts, Events

MITA Report to Identify Initiatives Worldwide in Addressing Issues on Shortage of ICT

Dec21
2011 Leave a Comment Written by IgnacioR

Education Impact won an open bid to work with the Malta Information Technology Agency (MITA) to produce a report identifying initiatives worldwide that had been successful in addressing the issues around the shortage of ICT skills within the nation.

The project was delivered by Richard Moore and Seb Schmoller, an Education Impact Fellow and an Associate respectively who worked closely with the MITA team. The project was delivered in less than three months and produced a set of recommendations that were tested during workshops with senior stakeholders and has now been converted into a programme of work that is shaping policy.

The intention was to learn from others and identify best practice, specifically initiatives that have made a significant contribution in attracting, retaining and developing a pool of individuals with high levels of ICT skills to support economic development.

An archived description of the project can be found here.

The project was developed in three stages. The first stage identified a wide range of example initiatives, the second stage took forward those that appeared to be most appropriate through a series of structured interviews with the individuals responsible for the design and delivery and the third stage involved working closely with MITA and other senior stakeholders on the design of a set of cross sector recommendations for MITA to consider.

Specifically nine core recommendations were identified covering knowledge transfer, retention and development of skills, proposed modification of some education systems and suggested modifications to the skills training landscape.

View the Letter of Reference (PDF)

The report was well received, and identified some key principles:

The issue needs to be addressed systemically – training alone will not suffice;
A balance of incentive schemes as well as whole community action is required to retain skills within any community;
Collaboration between all the actors within the supply side in primary, secondary and tertiary education needs to be co-ordinated with business users.

Many of the report’s recommendations are making their way into policy driven initiatives delivered in under a year with more scheduled to come. Have a look at some of them below:

Posted in Engagements - Tagged case study, Malta, MITA, recommendation letter, richard moore

WISE 2011 Workshop on Reading Literacy in a Digital World by Oystein Johannessen

Oct30
2011 Leave a Comment Written by IgnacioR

The ability to read, understand and share complex and multimodal texts is a key skill in modern society. Without these basic skills, learners will have great difficulties succeeding in other disciplines. As such, reading literacy is prerequisite for achieving personal goals, acquiring knowledge and participating in society. Today, reading is enabled through printed as well as digital texts.

Education Impact will highlight the importance of reading literacy in a digital world in a dedicated workshop at this year´s World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) in Doha, Qatar. The summit takes place 1-3 November. The Education Impact workshopat WISE in Doha will be moderated by the Education Impact Fellow Oystein Johannessen from Norway.

The workshop will address the following questions:

1) What is the current knowledge base with regard to reading literacy worldwide?

2) How can emerging technologies such as mobile and handheld devices facilitate the development of reading literacy among learners?

3) What are the hallmarks of successful interventions for the advancement of reading literacy among learners with socio-economic disadvantages?

Get involved in the discussions by participating in the WISE Website, WISE LinkedIn Group or posting your comments below.

Posted in Events, Industry Facts - Tagged education, oystein johannessen, Qatar, Reading Literacy, WISE

ICT in Education Envisioning Workshop in Haiti

Aug16
2011 Leave a Comment Written by IgnacioR

Education Impact delivered a 3 day workshop for the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MOEVT) in Port-Au-Prince, between June 14^th and June 16^th, 2011.

This workshop was organized with the support of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Microsoft. IDB supports a large program for the reconstruction of the Haitian education system together with the MOEVT, with the cooperation of many NGOs, private and public partners. Offering education to all children in Haiti is a strategic goal for the President and authorities. Still recovering from the 2010 earthquake, the MOEVT faces an astonishing challenge in achieving this in Haiti which includes rebuilding the infrastructure, updating the curriculum, training teachers, organizing the system as a whole and defining the processes that pull all of this together.

IDB and the MOEVT have stated that they want ICT to play a key role in the new education system and that future citizens of Haiti must acquire the relevant skills to compete in the open economy of the 21st Century. They believe in leveraging ICT for developing the quality and efficiency of the learning activities in all schools and for improving the administration and governance of the education system.

Education Impact was invited to facilitate a workshop for 30 members of the MOEVT who are managing various departments and teams and who worked together to build a vision for the MOEVT and an educational system empowered by ICT. Education Impact helped define a roadmap for implementing this vision step by step, and to recommend concrete actions to be implemented in the near future.

Philippe Mero (link to profile on EI website), and Claude Luttgens facilitated the workshop and in so doing also presented and discussed a significant amount of relevant analysis, case studies, success stories and educational resources. This was supported by the presentation of experiences and references of a number of other Education Impact Fellows via the use of video conferencing for instance. The workshop also welcomed various experts and speakers from Haiti, and some international consultants sharing their experience.

Claude Luttgens stated that “the 3 days were very interactive and full of motivation and focused passion. For the participants it was a great opportunity to discover and discuss many innovations being implemented around the world, and an important time for sharing their experiences, concerns, goals and expectations with their colleagues whilst building a real team to be able to deal with future challenges they will face in Haiti.”

At the end of the last day, key recommendations for the government and the Ministry were drawn up and presented during the “Haiti ICT in Education Summit”, an international conference organized by the IDB and the MOEVT on June 16^th to 18^th in Port-Au-Prince.

Posted in Engagements - Tagged education, haiti, IDV, ministry of education, MOEVT

School Envisioning workshops in India

Jul11
2011 Leave a Comment Written by IgnacioR

Education Impact delivered three School Envisioning Workshops in India between the 2^nd to the 15^th of June in three separate States. These were lead by our Fellow Owen Lynch and supported by an Associate Fellow and an Associate Consultant. This was an important opportunity for Education Impact to engage with some of the key actors involved in Education (and ICT) in India.

Travelling to the cities of Chandigarh, New Delhi, Raipur and finally Lucknow, the Education Impact team met with teachers, principals and officials of different schools as well as certain educational institutions. At each location, a School Envisioning Workshop was delivered to a very receptive participant group. Through presentations and group work and discussions, the attendees were able at the end of each workshop to define concrete objectives for their learners, teachers as well as their community and leaders through to the year 2030.

As importantly, Education Impact was invited to meet with some of India’s key actors in Education and ICT, both at the Federal and State levels. These regularly resulted in lengthy discussions which were seen by all sides as very positive.

Among the senior officials with whom the Education Impact team met with was Dr. Rajaram Sharma, Head of National Council of Educational Research and Training (an organisation of the Federal Government), who welcomed our team. He was kind enough to share with us his view of India’s main economic and social challenges for Education, and subsequent discussions were wide ranging where ICT and education are concerned.

Education Impact’s expertise in ICT for Education, gathered from all contexts and in all regions, is of significant value in developing country contexts, not least India which is due to undergo the biggest growth in its youth population worldwide and consequently is considering large scale the implementation of ICT in schools to help support this very significant growth.

Additionally, T.C.S. Naidu, Joint Commissioner at the talent school network Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti was happy to share NVS’s strategy with us and to consider future partnerships with Education Impact. Dr. Jawahar Surisetti, Advisor to the Government of India also welcomed us in Raipur during the second workshop and introduced us to the Secretary of Education in the state of Chhattisgarh with whom further discussions were had.

Related Information

Photo Gallery

Posted in Success Stories - Tagged education, India, ministry of education, owen lynch, success story, workshop

Inside look from the Advisory Board of the 2011 Horizon Report K12 Edition

Jul08
2011 Leave a Comment Written by IgnacioR

Education Impact got in touch with two of their fellows who were part of the Advisory Board for the creation of the 2011 Horizon Report: K12 Edition.

Gavin Dykes, an expert in the fields of Education and ICT for over 20 years said:

‘Taking part in production of the Horizon Reports as a member of the Advisory Board is a pleasure and a privilege. It is also a wonderful piece of personal development. That taking part encourages each member to reflect on the most important developments and trends in education and technology, to identify where these are taking place and to share these through the Horizon wiki. Of course real sharing is at the very least two way, and thecontributions of other board members inevitably spark new ideas and reflections.

Horizon Reports have been running for some ten years and so provide a tremendous back catalogue tracing the development of technology’s use and impact in education, and also forecasts for the years ahead. It’s worth noting how these are changing. While Cloud Computing and Mobiles appear as the top two technologies in the next year or sooner, closer inspection of examples and comparisons with previous years (and the higher education horizon reports) reveals something more about the evolving adaptation rather than simply the adoption of these technologies for education. So Horizon Reports are well worth reading in the context of time and change.

For those engaged in policy development, further contexts that warrant additional investigation and reflection include culture and geography. The Horizon Report 2010 – Edición Iberoamericana, was produced for Latin America, Spain and Portugal drawing its forecasts from developments in these countries. Such work and its interpretation for new regions and contexts looks set to develop further. That makes the Horizon Reports and their production of growing interest and of ever greater influence.’

Oystein Johannessen, is the Chief Strategy Officer at Cerpus and this were his comments:

‘The 2011 Horizon Report K-12 Edition was published in May. It highlights six emerging technologies, trends and key challenges that are expected to influence the use of technologies for teaching, learning and creative exploration. In my view, the report highlights the need to analyze new technologies in lieu of their pedagogical potential. If we want to achieve technology-based innovations in education, we must strive for a better understanding of the technological complexity that surrounds, influences and improves education. The Horizon Report represents an invaluable contribution to this understanding. Serving on the Advisory Board is both a pleasure and a privilege. You truly feel part of a global, professional community, a community that takes its own medicine by conducting all of its work online.’

Additional Resources

See and Download the 2011 Horizon Report: K12 Edition
New Media Consortium Reports and Documents

Posted in Industry Facts - Tagged education, gavin dykes, horizon, horizon report, ICT, interview, K12, new media consortium, NMC, oystein johannessen, report

Haif Bannayan talks about Public / Private Partnerships and the Jordan Education Initiative

Jun28
2011 Leave a Comment Written by IgnacioR

The Jordan Education Initiative is the first major model of public / private partnerships since 2003. It was created under the GEI of the World Economic Forum and today, more than 45 partners including global and local corporations, both private and public and also NGOs and civil societies are working together with the goal of improving the implementation of ICT in Education in Jordan and to create a model of replication for other countries.

In this video, Haif Bannayan, the CEO of the Jordan Education Initiative and an Education Impact Fellow focuses on these main areas:

Describing the Jordan Education Initiative: a project targeted at 100 Discovery Schools.
Key facts about the JEI and the integration of fiber optic connections, computer labs, etc.
The success factors of the JEI.
Key outcomes of the JEI
Recommendations for countries wanting to implement Public / Private Partnerships.

Haif emphasizes the importance of taking strategic approach on these types of projects and locating the key strengths of each partner.

To learn more about the Jordan Education Initiative, visit:

Posted in Broadcasts - Tagged education, haif bannayan, jordan, jordan education initiative, partnership, ppp, public and private, world economic forum

Schools of the Future Conference in Portugal

May04
2011 Leave a Comment Written by IgnacioR

The Portuguese NGO EPIS (companies for social inclusion) invited our fellow Dan Buckley to take the floor at the conference on “Escolas de Futuro” (Schools of the Future), on the 6th of April at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

The NGO EPIS (companies for social inclusión) was created in 2006, by a group of 10 CEOs and Managers, and strongly supported by the Portuguese President from the beginning of his mandate. The main objective given to the NGO was Education, and more specifically, the fight against failure and droppout. This fundamental goal would also lead to achieve social inclusion among young people in Portugal and encourage to build a model of modern citizenship.On the 5th of April, EPIS organized a master-class on “Schools of the Future” for school principals and for leaders and managers of the Education Ministry.And on the following day (6th of April), our Fellow Dan Buckley was invited to speak at the full day conference that was held on the same topic.Dan Buckley’s presentation was about the “Schools of the Future” connecting school’s to the new generation of children and all their “needs and requirements”. View his presentation here.The full programme, as well as presentation of the conference and pictures are now available on the EPIS website.

Posted in News