We’ll figure it out: David Price talks people-powered innovation

David Price, learning futurist and co-founder of We Do Things Differently Under the hashtag ‘we are not waiting’, citizen hackers are challenging the status quo. Frustrated by the slow pace at which the health...

November 12, 2015

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Attack of the cyborg cockroaches, and other stories

While technology-supported learning is a worldwide movement, it takes on a dazzling variety of different forms everywhere it is practised, from the hi-tech parks of Singapore to the dank gap behind the fridge i...

November 7, 2013

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Can you hear me now? Telemedicine and the future of care for the deaf

October 28, 2013

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Nicky Newnham, born profoundly deaf, was given hearing aids when she was a year old and they worked – for a time. But in her mid-twenties, Newman’s hearing started to decline further, and she began to struggle understanding any kind of speech. Facing isolation...

Can virtual reality keep us safe during disasters?

The United Nations recently commemorated the International Day for Disaster Reduction, an annual effort to raise the profile of disaster preparedness. This year, the day’s focus was on society’s most vulnerable...

October 23, 2013

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India’s financial five-year-olds, and other stories

Last week, Around the World promised you the very last article you'd ever have to read on MOOCs. Well... we lied – see below for the whole story, along with e-health news from West Africa, e-government developm...

October 18, 2013

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Michelle Obama has egg on her face, and other stories

August 29, 2013

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Around the World, our weekly round-up of international education news, is back with more stories from near and far. This week big data hits the global healines – click here for our own interview with big data expert Dr Viktor Mayer-Schönberger. Plus top storie...

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