QS Reimagine Education Awards 2023 - Innovations Directory 2023

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Access, Diversity & Inclusion

Bridging the gap for students from marginalized communities through AI-driven vernacular learning., Assam down town University

Project Summary

Assam down town University (AdtU) in Assam addresses the language gap for marginalized students lacking formal English training through an AI-enhanced initiative. Led by the IQAC Cell, this project integrates AI technology and mentors from similar backgrounds into the curriculum. STEM students focus on the Indian Number system and Units of Measurement, while non-STEM students explore the Indian Knowledge Vision of a humane society. Interactive ICT tools enhance engagement, and online recorded sessions offer flexibility. This approach aims to create an inclusive educational environment, breaking language barriers and recognizing diverse learning needs, fostering academic success and empowerment for marginalised students.

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Collaborative Efforts to Increase Visibility of Vertical-Transfer Students and Their Accessibility to Credit Transfer Information, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Project Summary

Analysis shows that vertical-transfer students taking alternative higher education pathway from community college to university are neglected, treated unequally, and less able to access credit transfer information. Through a partnership of different stakeholders, this project shifts the paradigm from competition to collaboration to cultivate a transfer-receptive culture. Locally, the project has reached all eight UGC-funded universities as receiving institutions, seven community colleges as sending and receiving institutions, and 10 high schools. Internationally, five universities (Canada, Italy, Tunisia, and the US), four community colleges (Canada and the US), and the Ontario Council on Articulation and Transfer (Canada) have joined the project.

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Educational inclusion in students with Down syndrome - ICT in the mediation of learning, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina

Project Summary

The project called "Educational inclusion in students with Down syndrome" aims to design a technology-based training strategy, which allows providing training related to the proper use of current communication technology (use of ICT, messaging and computer risks), for students with cognitive limitations (students with Down syndrome).

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Eksploratoryòm: Improving Teaching in Haiti through Student-Centered Education, Blue Butterfly

Project Summary

Blue Butterfly and our partners are using an innovative approach to inspire change in teacher practice in Haiti. Most Haitian teachers rely on outdated pedagogical practices that mimic the authoritarian structures of Haiti’s colonial past. Instruction, which is typically conducted in the colonial language—French—rather than students’ first language, Haitian Creole, is based on traditional, teacher-centered practices. Students are not the drivers of their own learning. Blue Butterfly is flipping the script of top-down, teacher-focused classrooms toward engaged student learning. Our Eksploratoryòm science education program immerses teachers in an active learning pedagogy that fosters children’s critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

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Empowering Neurodiverse Adolescents, Curtin university

Project Summary

The Autism Academy for Software Quality Assurance (AASQA) is a social innovation initiative aiming to utilize the talents of neurodivergent individuals. The program was created with the goal of supporting neurodivergent individuals to leverage their strengths and skills through training, education, and mentoring programs, specifically in the emerging field of technology. AASQA's goal is to offer Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education and establish avenues for them to obtain respected and enduring employment. Additionally, AASQA helps industries manage their digital transformation projects through the utilization of data analytics, artificial intelligence, quality assurance and cyber security.

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Framework for an Inclusive Society, Special Olympics Global Center for Inclusion in Education

Project Summary

The Special Olympics and the EASEL Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education partnered to develop an explicit framework for inclusive mindsets and behaviors that defines the core knowledge, skills, values, and actions that both enable and drive young people to include others, even when it is uncomfortable to do so. This teachable framework provides a foundation not only to build inclusive mindsets and behaviors more intentionally within Special Olympics unified schools, but ultimately to galvanize entire communities to be characterized by connection, belonging, and inclusion. The framework is designed to address the barriers to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Leave No One Behind by Platform Up, Dokuz eylul university

Project Summary

The main target of this project is to ensure socio-cultural integration of refugee university students primarily in the Faculty of Business at DEU by the activities under this collaboration. Besides the project aims to develop Faculty-wide positive attitudes towards migrants by involving the academic and administrative staff as well as local students of the Faculty in the project activities. The expected change with this project starts with social cohesion derived from the positive viewpoints and empathy generated by the proposed activities. With this project, spread of positive viewpoints and empathy from faculty to overall university life is expected.

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U21 Global Student – Accessible, Sustainable, Global Education For All, Universitas 21 [U21]

Project Summary

U21’s 29 international member universities are all demonstrably dedicated to connecting people across borders and diverse cultures within their research, teaching, outreach and campus environments. U21 is therefore committed to furthering access diversity and inclusion, placing this at the heart of our recently reaffirmed Network Mission and Principles, allied closely to the network’s commitment to sustainability. In 2020, U21 designed an interconnected suite of sustainably themed and delivered virtual student opportunities. To date U21 Global Student has given access to global education to more than 11,000 students, worldwide, many of whom would or could not engage in traditional international mobility.

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AI in Education

AI for syntectic teaching and media production at the IU International University of Applied Sciences, IU International University of Applied Sciences

Project Summary

IU has developed a bot with two generation of features: 1st-gen: Provide factually correct answers to student questions regarding the educational content. 2nd-gen: Provide exam-like training & personalized delivery of the theoretical material. We have many more ideas that we will run with students. This filing will concentrate on the first two generations of functions. IU also uses generative AI to auto-produce exam-like exercises and video podcasts out of existing coursebooks, enabling better exam preparation and reducing university's time needed to prepare and roll out a new course for students, improving relevancy of the materials - something for next year.

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AI-LMS: AI-Based Behavioral Modeling of User's Interaction With The Learning Management Systems, Khalifa University

Project Summary

AI-LMS investigates users (learners and educators) online interactions with learning management systems (LMSs). The project introduces artificial intelligence to the A/B/C-Teach framework's quality of interaction (QoI) metric under an affective (a-), blended (b-) and collaborative (c-) learning. Being in early stages; retrospective data from 9000+ students and 2500+ professors) from three different institutes are utilized for model application and testing. Earlier implementation used Moodle LMS, with current/future expansion to include BlackBoard. By incorporating explainable AI techniques we provide dynamic and personalized feedback to learners, educators and policymakers alike. Thus, improving the pedagogical experience using innovative framework and techniques.

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Alef Tutor AI, Alef Education

Project Summary

Ask Maia, developed by Alef Education, is a groundbreaking AI Tutor that transforms math education. Utilizing advanced AI, it offers personalized learning experiences tailored to each student's pace and needs. Through step-by-step guidance, instant feedback, and multilingual support, Maia demystifies complex math concepts, bridging understanding gaps. Students not only grasp foundational concepts but see math's real-world relevance, fostering genuine interest and application. Operating within a safe, non-judgmental space, learners can confidently tackle challenges, learn from mistakes, and steadily progress. Ask Maia signifies the future of math education: adaptive, inclusive, and impactful

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Artificial Intelligence in Pedagogy: Real-time Analysis and Augmentation of Student Engagement Using Machine Learning Techniques, United Arab Emirates University

Project Summary

This study introduces an AI-powered, real-time student evaluation system that analyzes classroom behavior via webcam and generates an easy visual representation of student engagement. The system integrates body and facial recognition algorithms and a recommendation system to offer tailored pedagogical advice to educators, promoting optimal classroom management and enhanced student engagement. The proposed system supports a student-centered learning environment by enabling teachers to understand and respond to students' emotional states, thereby improving teaching effectiveness and academic success.

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Cathoven Language Hub, Cathoven

Project Summary

Cathoven is an AI-powered groundbreaking tool that's changing the way we learn languages. It solves the problem of learning being too slow and engaging study materials (news, videos, music, etc.) not fitting the learner's level. Cathoven figures out how good a person is at a language and gives them the right stuff to learn. It helps teachers make personalized engaging lessons quickly and easily. What sets Cathoven apart is its specialized AI models for language teaching, which perform much better than ChatGPT, and its ability to organize materials accurately based on different language levels. It's making language learning remarkably efficient.

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Leveraging AI to Tackle Barriers Against a Student-Centered Learning Experience during the Early and Universal Introduction of AI in HE Curricula, Abu Dhabi University

Project Summary

Our project aims to make artificial intelligence education accessible at scale. This initiative offers a comprehensive introduction to AI, designed to be easily understood by students from various academic backgrounds without requiring extensive math or programming knowledge. The project uses AI tools to provide tailored assignments, labs, and AI-generated exams to over 250 students per semester, ensuring a personalized and practical learning experience. Additionally, the project addresses ethical considerations and real-world applications, employing AI for assessment purposes, thereby enhancing AI education's accessibility and quality on a large scale. The project also includes advanced security measures for attendance and cheating detection.

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Scribo - Think, Scribo Holdings Pte Ltd

Project Summary

In a world where writing well is seen as a good GPT prompt, there will always be a space for people to write well. Good writing is clear thinking made visible. You basically cannot ask GPT what you are thinking or what you would like to say. Scribo is AI to build writing skills, to give students the feedback and guidance to develop critical writing skills across all levels of learning. Lett's face it, if all good writing skills can be fixed by Grammarly, we would have fixed the problem globally in the last 8 years.

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Smart Feedback, Tecnologico de Monterrey

Project Summary

AI-powered platform that aims to simulate educational dialogues, fostering a conducive learning environment through emotional recognition and regulation. It begins with a board game recreating feedback scenarios for peers to identify emotions, self-reflect, and craft more meaningful responses. Subsequently, these responses are input into a Natural Language Processing AI tool. This AI component identifies emotions and transforms them into visual representations of emotional tonality, aiding individuals in adjusting their discourse to align with their preferred pedagogical approach. This innovative platform leverages AI to enhance educational dialogues, nurturing a more receptive attitude towards learning via emotional awareness and response refinement.

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STEMpedia, Catering AI Education for 21st-Century Skills, Agilo Research Private Limited (STEMpedia)

Project Summary

STEMpedia, founded by IIT Kanpur alumni, is driven by a vision to transform the learning experience for next-gen technology education. Through STEMpedia, over 1.5 million students have embarked on a journey to explore their interests in STEM, harnessing their passions to develop 21st-century skills. To ensure a wider impact, STEMpedia has created products for AI education along with curricula to cater to diverse audiences. Our initiatives include the establishment of 300+ AI and Robotics Labs, 500+ Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL), and the implementation of 50+ impact programs. We served 2000+ schools and empowered 15,000+ educators from 65+ countries.

The Duolingo English Test, Duolingo

Project Summary

High-stakes tests have traditionally been inconvenient, stressful, and expensive— and it’s even worse if you are an international student who needs to certify your English proficiency to study abroad. Duolingo changed that. The Duolingo English Test is a convenient, fast, and affordable English test, accepted around the world. Results are available within 48 hours and can be shared with an unlimited number of institutions. By integrating the latest assessment science and AI, we empower anyone to take the test, where and when they’re at their best.

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The SMARTIE program, University of Calgary

Project Summary

The SMARTIE program ((https://www.smartie.dev/) is an innovative AI-powered initiative aimed at revolutionizing the integration of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (EDIA) in education. It offers university educators a comprehensive tool to create inclusive course outlines, thereby alleviating cognitive overload and enhancing EDI principles in course design. While initially focused on the University of Calgary, the project's long-term objectives include seeking partnerships for broader implementation across Canadian K-12 schools, universities and beyond. SMARTIE's groundbreaking approach has the potential to transform inclusive education on an international scale, making it a powerful response to the global challenge of educational equity.

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Using routinely collected student data to identify individuals at risk of leaving the pre-registration nursing programme and providing bespoke interventions to support their retention., Staffordshire University

Project Summary

Staffordshire University has developed a predictive analytic tool capable of identifying student nurses at risk of leaving their studies. The tool can be deployed at the start of each academic year and can be used to detect cohorts with risk factors and individuals at risk of attrition. As a result of the tool identifying these students more timely and targeted support can be implemented with a view to reducing attrition and increasing the supply of graduate nurses into the healthcare workforce.

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Best use of Generative AI

Audemic Insights - Generative AI bringing inaccessible research and reports to the mainstream learner, Audemic

Project Summary

Audemic's mission is to democratize access to scientific knowledge by making academic research more accessible. Users can upload PDF research papers to the Audemic platform, where innovative AI technology extracts and allows customization of text to suit learning preferences. Audemic has developed a proprietary prompt library, a recommendation system, and web/mobile apps. These additions complement existing features like text-to-speech and user-friendly UI for neurodivergent users. User feedback will drive ongoing feature development, supporting Audemic's growth pathway in bringing research to a wider audience.

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Automated Feedback Coach - Personalized AI Tutor to Improve Feedback Writing, FeedbackFruits

Project Summary

The Automated Feedback Coach harnesses the power of AI to provide real-time, formative suggestions to help students adjust and improve their feedback delivery during peer and group assessment activities. Automated Feedback Coach uses advanced Large Language Models provided by Azure OpenAI Service to process students’ input and provide feedback on their peer feedback quality.

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GPTeach, Alef Education

Project Summary

GPTeach empowers educators with AI-driven tools on Google Slides, enabling personalized, dynamic, and multilingual content creation. From lesson planning to Educational content creation, GPTeach revolutionizes classroom engagement and fosters enhanced learning experiences. Whether it's simplifying complex topics, generating engaging content, or relevant images, GPTeach ensures every learning need is addressed. With a focus on inclusivity, it ensures that language isn't a barrier to knowledge. By merging cutting-edge technology with pedagogical needs, this solution enables teachers to tailor content based on individual student needs and class dynamics.

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HeyHi Personalised Adaptive Learning System (PALS), HeyHi Pte Ltd

Project Summary

We proposed an AI-powered personalised learning space to make providing personalised and adaptive learning easy and efficient. Combining the latest generative AI technology, with our knowledge tracing enhanced recommendation system based on knowledge graph, combined with text-to-speech / text-to-video technology, we have demonstrated the comprehensive processes of setting up an adaptive learning system for personalised education.

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Introducing Genie: GoSkills’ AI-Powered Course Authoring Tool (And the New Ally of Personalized and Scalable Corporate Training Programs), GoSkills

Project Summary

Genie is GoSkills’ AI-powered content assistant tool, which allows users to create course content in just a few clicks. Genie is part of an all-in-one training solution—a learning management system (LMS) with a built-in authoring tool. This fact differentiates it from other stand-alone AI tools, which force users to adopt multiple training software. Users can create high-quality custom courses more efficiently, manage them, and track their performance in one central place. Despite being launched in May 2023, Genie has reshaped how many users create custom training content, exhibiting significant potential to enhance corporate learning at a broader scale.

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Large Language Model-Driven Classroom Flipping: Empowering Student-Centric Peer Questioning with AI Chatbots, Nanyang Technological University

Project Summary

Reciprocal questioning in teaching and learning, crucial for engagement and understanding, can benefit from large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT. This paper explores flipped interaction in education, enhancing traditional methods like Peer Instruction and JiTT. We propose a workflow integrating prompt engineering with quizzes, empowering students to self-regulate and teachers to personalize teaching. Erotetics (science of questioning logic) is applied to LLM flipped interaction. An LLM-driven chatbot called Nemobot streamlines these processes, applied successfully from 2020 to 2022 during remote teaching in the COVID-19 pandemic. LLM-driven classroom flipping proves particularly valuable in large classes, optimizing and scaling up teaching.

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OWP+GPT : AI-powered executive development is already here, IMD - International Institute for Management Development

Project Summary

IMD has launched two ground-breaking applications of generative AI: (1) Classroom session-specific ChatGPT, and (2) an AI Art Reflection exercise. First, the session-specific ChatGPT; participants can ask open-ended questions via a mobile app. IMD’s ChatGPT answers the question by utilizing what was discussed in the session, plus the relevant corpus information and then augments the answer using OpenAI’s GPT-4. The AI-art exercise takes learners through a number of reflection questions, culminating in a prompt where they must think of an image or metaphor that captures this learning and select from one of dozens of art styles.

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Simulated experiential clinical training - authentic patient interaction, consult coaching, and clinical decision support. A use case for 1:1 expert coaching, University of Waterloo WatSPEED

Project Summary

We leveraged generative AI to: • create and interact with a simulated roster of patients needing anticoagulation therapy (warfarin) treatment, and • unlock the knowledge base of world-class expert, Dr. Jeff Nagge, to coach on the quality of the consults and on learners’ clinical decisions. In the consult stage, learners navigate different patient personality and clinical attributes while practicing authentic professionalism and empathy. They receive feedback on the completeness of the critical information they must gather for this treatment. In the clinical decision stage, treatment plans are assessed, considerations and corrections are explained.

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TedoSim - AI powered Simulation-based learning platform for career readiness, Cartedo

Project Summary

Cartedo is an experiential learning platform with expertise in soft skills assessment trusted by large youth organizations like UNICEF and Scouts. In Feb 2023, Cartedo launched the beta version of TedoSim, a simulations-based learning platform that utilizes generative AI to bridge gaps in higher education for workforce preparation. TedoSim is powered by two AI companions. Cartee, the AI creation wizard helps educators turn coursework into real-world simulations within minutes. Tedo, the AI tutor, offers personalized feedback in real-time to help students bridge skill gaps and accelerate career readiness. Professors using Cartedo report increased student engagement, improved exam scores, and elevated

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Using artificial-intelligence tools to make mathematical content accessible to blind readers, ETH Zurich

Project Summary

Blind learners predominantly rely on screen-reader software to access electronic content. Unfortunately, there are challenges with most of the documents written in physics, mathematics, and other STEM disciplines, due to their strong reliance on mathematical symbols and expressions, as well as figures and graphs. Our project explores the possibility of generating standards-compliant, accessible narrative from source documents using Large Language Models.

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WordUp | AI Vocabulary Builder, WORDUP APP LTD

Project Summary

WordUp revolutionizes English learning with its AI-driven app, focusing on vocabulary enhancement for learners at all levels. Pioneering the future of language learning, WordUp identifies gaps in users' vocabulary, suggesting keywords to focus on based on their real-world relevance and usage. WordUp supports personalized learning journeys with a rich repository of 25,000 essential English words. With visual aids, definitions, and real-world examples from popular movies and news, it ensures comprehensive understanding. Features like AI-enabled conversations facilitate active vocabulary practice, while 'celebrity simulations' make learning entertaining. WordUp bridges language gaps with its innovative approach to vocabulary learning.

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Blended and Presence Learning

ACU Thrive - First-year success learning model, Australian Catholic University

Project Summary

ACU Thrive is a unique approach to your first year at university which prioritises your success every step of the way. It ensures you have the opportunity to thrive in all aspects of your transition into higher education, including how you learn, where you learn and how you make meaningful connections with the ACU community. Your first year at university should challenge you – but it should also be enjoyable and manageable. With us, you’ll be supported with both independent and collaborative learning, given the opportunity to prepare for classes in advance, and have real support from your teaching staff.

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Cities XXL, Universidad de las Americas (UDLA)

Project Summary

Cities XXL is a city-building simulation game where you design, build, and manage a city. The game tasks you with zoning, infrastructure planning, and managing public services. You face budget balancing and citizen satisfaction challenges, aiming for a realistic city-planning experience. In a pre-Covid initiative, students use Cities XXL to simulate urban planning functions individually but collaborate as a group. The game encourages critical thinking, communication, problem-solving, and teamwork. Despite distance learning due to the pandemic, the engaging and fun nature of the game has kept students engaged. Enabling the learning outcomes of the Urban Planning

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Democratizing Digital Education, Techademy Campus

Project Summary

Techademy Campus represents a groundbreaking initiative designed to empower universities and colleges in delivering a comprehensive and immersive learning experience to students. Our approach involves the establishment of virtual campuses that seamlessly integrate cutting-edge edtech tools, including LMS, ERP and SIS and break down the geographical barriers that have traditionally hindered the pursuit of education. Techademy Campus, harness the power of presence based pedagogies to elevate student learning and foster Data-Driven Decision Making. The platform enables institutions to facilitate learning not only from their own faculty but also from subject matter experts within Techademy network, facilitating multidisciplinary learning to students.

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Digital Life Skills Program, Mysocialife

Project Summary

We are the #1 EdTech Program in schools, teaching Grade 4 to 11 students a vast evolving landscape of much-needed digital life skills - taught through the lens of social media and popular culture. The eight 60-minute lessons, tailored for each age group, guides teens and pre-teens on critical thinking online, cyberbullying and empathy, sexuality online, mental health, addiction and focus, privacy and cybersecurity, reputation and a digital values system. End goal? Safer, smarter kids online who will explore and excel.

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Empowering Hong Kong's Educators: Advancing Pedagogical Practices and Enhancing Student Outcomes through Blended Learning and Digital Innovation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Project Summary

Amidst the dramatic educational shifts induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, our project pioneers an era of blended, student-focused learning in Hong Kong's schools. We are transforming challenges into opportunities, swapping teacher-centric methods for dynamic instruction that cultivates critical 21st-century skills. With services including professional consultation, peer mentoring, formal training, a self-developed learning platform and technology solutions, we empower teachers and students to navigate this new landscape. We provide platforms to showcase innovation, fostering collaboration. Our mission is not merely to adapt to the 'new normal' in education but to redefine it, making Hong Kong's education system more resilient and engaging.

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Improved learning experience for UG students, UBI Business School

Project Summary

The project implied a major delivery change to strengthen and improve the delivery of the BSc in Business, International Management, Management of Technology, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning in the School. The improvements aimed at engaging students in an increasing hybrid environment for professional work. The final goal is for students to have a deep experience in hybrid modes of learning and working, leadership in hybrid conditions, virtual and F2F collaboration modes, and the ability to build interpersonal trust in hybrid teams.

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LivePBL Director, The Capital Case UK Litd

Project Summary

LivePBL is a hybrid and unique learning opportunity for Sino-international music teachers, local communities, parents, children & school teachers to develop music education projects through such virtual social project practices. Participants will benefit from macro-teaching seminars; micro-teaching workshops; and cross-cultural team-working through a digital LMS platform. In addition to gaining valuable teaching experience and learning through projects; the programme will demonstrate how to facilitate learning and how to publish papers at the London International Conference on Education and International Society of Music Education annual conference. Join LivePBL and contribute to social development in local communities through the power of music.

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Novel and effective use of interactive simulations to enhance University science education., University of South Australia

Project Summary

I have developed a suite of interactive simulations that have been effectively used to enhance student learning of both lecture and laboratory content within various fields of University science, including Biochemistry, Immunology and Microbiology. All simulations exemplify active learning, are engaging and significantly enhance student performance in all assessment items. One example of impact relates to the Biochemistry simulation, where since its introduction in 2014, NO student has failed the assessment where previously up to 15% failed. My approach has been readily deployed across multiple disciplines and has the potential to enhance both online and face-to-face instruction.

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Politician for a Day, Workz

Project Summary

Politician for a day is the Danish Parliament’s new roleplaying game for visiting schools, ages 13-15. The game was designed by Workz, Mediafarm and Metronome. The game and accompanying tour of the Parliament is free. In total a visit takes 3 hours and 45 minutes. It will be played by more than 15.000 students annually. To put that into perspective, this is around 25% of all students in a year group in Denmark. The first year’s games sold out in less than a week.

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Professional Fellowship in University Teaching and Learning, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University

Project Summary

The PFUTL is a one-year program that enhances teaching and learning in Saudi higher education. It combines online and offline activities, such as assignments, feedback, workshops, seminars, mentoring, and peer observation. It introduces innovative and evidence-based teaching methods that improve faculty members' engagement and learning. It evaluates the participants' learning outcomes through portfolios, reflections, and presentations. It has positive feedback from the participants, who reported increased confidence, competence, and creativity in their teaching. The PFUTL integrates blended and presence learning practices and promotes excellence in university teaching and learning, professional careers, and lifelong learning.

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Revolutionizing Education: Immersive real-time collaboration in VR for blended masters., IE University

Project Summary

Our project pioneers immersive collaborative learning in VR, revolutionizing blended education. By transcending geographical boundaries, it fosters seamless real-time interactions, enhancing student engagement and class cohesion. Through tailored VR environments and proactive support, students and faculty engage in dynamic learning activities, and the co-creation of knowledge. Early results from pilot programs reveal students' positive perceptions of enhanced learning value. As we refine methodologies and expand, we foresee immersive collaborative learning becoming a cornerstone of IE's blended programs, bridging the gap between physical and virtual education. This project reflects IE's commitment to pushing the boundaries of effective, inclusive, and engaging education.

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Statistics For Social Impact, Singapore Management University

Project Summary

“Statistics for Social Impact” was created with a vision to serve society through statistics. This is the only project of its kind, where undergraduate statistics students apply everything learnt in class onto societal problems with dementia, suicide, abysmal public toilets, stigma faced by citizens with mental challenges. It is all about experiential learning where students all across university from differing disciplines tackle real-world problems pro-bono for non-profit organizations. Blending in-class learning with original games and out-of-class collaboration with citizens in society, such work is beyond anything done in Singapore’s history, with active fieldwork, high-rigour training, unprecedented exposure, and actual impact.

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Yonsei UIC LearnUs Global Semester Program, Underwood International College, Yonsei University

Project Summary

The LearnUs Global Semester Program is a collaborative exchange program between Yonsei University's Underwood International College (UIC) in Korea and International Christian University (ICU) in Japan. Utilizing the Yonsei LearnUs online platform, the program combines in-person, online, and field instruction . Each fall, twenty students (10 from UIC and 10 from ICU) switch between campuses and countries to continuously take five specialized courses on cross-cultural Japanese-Korean reconciliation for fifteen weeks. UIC and ICU students study together for five weeks in Japan, with in-person ICU classes and online UIC classes. The format switches for the next six weeks in Korea.

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Breakthrough Technology Innovation in Education

DON ::: the vest and ASSIMILATE EXCELLENCE, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland

Empires & Interconnections - an iPad App to Ignite Curiosity for Learning History, Northwestern University in Qatar

Evivve, Company: Gamitar Learning, Brand: Evivve

Project Summary

Evivve is a game-based learning tool that revolutionizes corporate learning. It seamlessly combines traditional and web-based learning, fostering a dynamic environment for learners to practice and internalize key behaviors and mindsets. Evivve's unique non-linear simulation encourages authentic interactions and autonomous decision-making, making it a must-have tool for learners and facilitators alike. By immersing participants in engaging scenarios, it instills cultural tenets, mindsets, and behaviors crucial for success, such as innovation, customer-centricity, and risk-taking. Evivve's versatility empowers facilitators to create tailored learning experiences, while its affordability ensures accessibility for all. Evivve reimagines presence-based pedagogies, delivering tangible results and impactful learning outcomes.

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Gamit! Platform to manage gamification based on a rewards mechanic., Institute for the Future of Education, Tecnologico de Monterrey

Innovative Model of Competency Acquisition in Difficult Echoguided Peripheral Vascular Puncture for Nurses., UNIVERSIDAD DE BARCELONA

SmartLearning- The Powerful AI and Big Data Analytics System for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Lingnan University

Soqqle Classlet: Bridging Virtuality and Reality for Immersive Learning, SOQQLE HONG KONG LIMITED

Teacher's Toolkit, Edify Education

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Developing Emerging Skills and Competencies

Cybernetics for Societal Transformations: Capability and Policy Development, School of Cybernetics, The Australian National University

Project Summary

A non-traditional school in the College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics at the Australian National University (ANU), the School of Cybernetics cultivates a new generation of practitioner who will have the critical skills and knowledge necessary to navigate our increasingly complex futures. The world is facing major challenges, including inequality, climate change and distrust in new and emergent technologies. The establishment of the newest ANU school in over 40 years showcases new capability building to ensure future technological systems are safe, sustainable and responsible. Our education programs are unique and demonstrate a shift in traditional impact, research and engagement.

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Educational Podcasts to Enhance Communication Skills in English, Amity University Tashkent Uzbekistan

Project Summary

EduSomedia (Educational Through Social Media) and Educational Podcasts started more than 10 years ago at Amity University Noida (INDIA) There have been around 30 blogs and hundreds of Podcasts made by students there. It has continued at Amity's Tashkent campus as well. Students have been using Blogs and Podcasts for their academic learning and content. In Podcasts they have been doing literary reading, mock interviews, general discussions and interviews All this has helped in their skills for careers as many have become bloggers and podcasters through this exposure. by searching 'EduSoMedia' we can find lot of content in this project

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Empowering Minds: Igniting STEM Passion through Innovative STEAM Education. Empowering the future thru STEAM., Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala/Universidad Galileo/Universidad de Guanajuato

Project Summary

The STEAM program is a thorough and dynamic STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) program designed to inspire individuals of all ages and educational backgrounds to explore and thrive in STEAM subjects. To foster creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and invention, the program incorporates various activities, including outreach activities, formal education, mentoring, conferences, online seminars, and workshops. Has attracted over 1.5 million online seminar participants, 17,000 K–12 students, 11,000 teachers, and published 22 articles. The first Guatemalan team in GLOBE IVSS. Three worldwide relationships with businesses have started and the first STEAM kits to be marketed are currently under development.

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IULM Center of Research in Neuromarketing, Università IULM

Project Summary

The Behavior and Brain Lab, a key part of IULM's Neuromarketing Research project, combines the study of emotions triggered by advertising and communication with cutting-edge neuroscientific techniques. By analyzing physiological signals such as EEG, eye tracking, heart rate, and skin conductance, the lab aims to understand the impact of external stimuli on emotional activation. The project adopts a multidimensional approach by integrating multiple neuropsychophysiological signals simultaneously. Alongside traditional methods like in-depth interviews and questionnaires, this research project aims to provide an innovative, comprehensive understanding of the interplay between behavior, emotions, and the brain in the context of advertising and communication.

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Innvoation Sports, STEM Punks

Project Summary

Innovation Sports merges eSports and STEM, integrating them into the school curriculum. This program empowers students to experience learning by combining STEM, design thinking, and eSports, cultivating future-focused skills. It presents real-world challenges, encourages creativity and teamwork, and leveraging Minecraft skills. Students gain vital STEM knowledge, including design thinking, engineering, 3D design/coding, problem-solving, critical thinking, and collaboration abilities. This initiative encapsulates our new EXCITE program, crafted through industry and school collaboration, offering curriculum-aligned STEM education tailored for teacher delivery and building skills for industry demands into the future.

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MyCorvinus Navigator, Corvinus University of Budapest

Project Summary

MyCorvinus Navigator is an interactive programme supporting bachelor students to effectively identify career prospects best fitting their personal characteristics and expectations and to consciously plan how to develop skills and competencies required for their future work. This digitalized life path planner enables students to identify and select the most relevant courses, student organisations, extra-curricular activities, contests, and other events available on campus. Navigator is not simply an online platform, but a three-step mentoring programme including a personality test based profile interpretation, orientational consulting and CV counselling. This way Navigator offers the opportunity to bring students closer to their desired careers.

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Professional Masters in Data Science and Leadership, Amsterdam Tech

Project Summary

AmsterdamTech takes on the task of closing the skills gap, connecting university education with the dynamic tech job market. This mission is fueled by the growing demands in data science and AI. We offer the Professional Masters as our solution—a blend of tech-focused education, leadership development, and hands-on practitioner research skills. Rooted in a competency-based model, it directly addresses the skill mismatch, boosting employability. This project demonstrates our commitment, aligning with the demands of the evolving tech landscape. From our Science Park campus and our Amsterdam employability hub, we craft a transformative journey, creating a link between education and industry.

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Project Management, diversity and inclusion, IMT Atlantique

Project Summary

IMT Atlantique M1 engineering students focus on their project management skills, while resolving a technical issue for a client company. Each year, we observed several challenges for effective and efficient collaborations among students. This six-month project is often a key integration step for our incoming international students and an important sensibilisation to diversity for our national students. Previous intercultural exercises failed to appropriately link acquired intercultural knowledge with project management skills. We developed a specific setting where students will experiment intercultural management concepts while getting out of their comfort zone working on practical projects, and reflecting on their learnings.

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Tatawwar - Building Tomorrow's Minds, Potential.com / Tatawwar

Project Summary

Tatawwar, award-winning blended education program by Potential.com and HSBC, empowers youth to innovate and tackle global challenges, building the skills for further education, employment and community development. With online/mobile-first strategy, Tatawwar reached remote regions ensuring accessibility to youth, impacting over 20,000 students from 3,000 schools in MENA and now globally (over 80 countries offering Incubation sprints and Web 3.0 rewards). The program starts online with innovation design thinking. Promising students attended prototyping workshops in local FabLabs bringing their ideas to life pitching to judges (30 workshops/over 900 students). Graduates achieved impressive milestones, launching social enterprises, securing funding, joining advisory boards.

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Transdisciplinarity for Future Readiness, The University of Hong Kong

Project Summary

The Common Core (CC), with a portfolio of over 160 courses and a robust co-curriculum, develops critical future-ready skills in undergraduate students through innovative and experiential approaches that cross multiple disciplinary domains. Students are empowered to construct their own learning pathways and engage in hands-on research, multimedia projects, community partnerships, and other real-world co-curriculum programmes. These experiences foster agility, entrepreneurial thinking, social awareness, and an interdisciplinary perspective - capabilities increasingly valued in the fast-changing world of work - alongside creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and problem-solving. We inspire lifelong learning attitudes, equipping graduates with transferable competencies.

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E-Learning

Chasing Time English online learning platform, Chasing Time English

Project Summary

Our online platform delivers original TV-style drama series for English language education supported by teaching and learning resources based on contemporary, research-backed approaches. Supporting teenagers, young adult and adult learners of English, our focus is on engaging students in the target language by providing exciting dramatic content. Using a unique medium of instruction based on narrative and episodic lessons, learners are motivated to express themselves and connect with other users in a secure and positive environment. Additionally, there is a robust administration portal for institutions to track progress and engagement to advance their learners’ language acquisition journey.

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Diverse Distant-Students Deep Emotion Recognition and Visualization, Abu Dhabi University

Project Summary

Our project is dedicated to elevating the distance learning experience by delving into the emotional dynamics of culturally diverse students in the context of online lectures. We've curated a unique dataset featuring Arab students depicting emotions relevant to lectures. We've crafted an exceptional emotion recognition model by employing advanced face detection algorithms and harnessing the power of Neural Architecture Search (NAS), which outperformed state-of-the-art methods and is the foundation for an interactive dashboard that offers real-time emotional insights to educators. This system empowers teachers with data-driven insights, allowing them to customize teaching strategies for a new era in online education.

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EdTech Empowerment: Fostering Essential Skills and Self-Directed Learning in Engineering Students, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Project Summary

This project uses EdTech to help engineering students acquire essential skills alongside technical knowledge. Several online platforms have been developed and integrated into subject assignments to enhance students’ coding and oral presentation abilities. Our Peer Challenge Game enables subject-related competition among students. Codatus is an online coding platform equipped with auto-grading, enquiry features, and collaborative editing. SmartPresenter is an AI-assisted platform for presentation skills training, providing AI feedback for improvement. By leveraging technology, students receive resources and timely feedback for self-directed learning and are empowered with the skills needed for successful careers.

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Facing New Challenges in Space and Cyber Affairs: SpaceGov, IE University

Project Summary

In this interactive simulation, students will work in teams to simulate how different countries strategize and make decisions about global governance. They will learn how to manage multiple collective action problems related to space and cyber affairs simultaneously. The goal of the game is to maximize their country’s space and cyber power. However, several problems will arise which will give players strong reason to try to work together as opposed to going it alone.

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Fiqra, VijanaTech

Project Summary

VijanaTech is a social enterprise addressing Africa's digital skills gap through its innovative online learning platform, Fiqra. Our mission is to empower young Africans with affordable, flexible, and personalized digital skills courses. Fiqra offers courses developed in partnership with leading African tech companies, creating pathways to careers in emerging tech sectors. Leveraging AI, gamified content, and microlearning, Fiqra caters to diverse learning styles. We also facilitate job placements, foster online communities, and champion contextualized content. With a track record of over 3,000 beneficiaries and 500 job placements, we're driving youth employment and digital transformation across the continent.

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GoSkills LMS: The All-In-One E-Learning Solution that Makes Training Irresistible, GoSkills

Project Summary

The GoSkills learning management system (LMS) is an all-in-one e-learning solution that helps teams of all sizes and budgets create, manage, and track all their training in one convenient place. It is intuitively designed, cloud-based, and mobile-friendly, enabling learners to enjoy a seamless and self-paced learning experience anytime, anywhere. Users can access an award-winning library of over 110 off-the-shelf business courses or create their own using a built-in authoring tool with AI-powered capabilities: the GoSkills course builder. Key microlearning principles are at the core of these offerings to boost engagement and improve learning outcomes.

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LabXchange, LabXchange

Project Summary

LabXchange is a powerful digital platform for science education that gives everyone, everywhere, the opportunity to chart a path in science—for free. Launched in 2020 at Harvard University with support from the Amgen Foundation, our collaborative digital platform helps us empower educators, uplift diverse voices, and amplify the reach of impactful educational initiatives. We create and curate content that demystifies and humanizes science, and helps all learners see themselves in science.

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iLearn Insights, Macquarie University

Project Summary

iLearn Insights, an innovative online application to address the challenge of engaging, motivating and supporting students. iLearn Insights uses learning analytics and dynamic search tools to enable teachers to initiate personalised automated communications to students. iLearn Insights enables academic and support staff to evaluate the quality of student engagement in learning and teaching activities in real-time and in comparison with past offerings. It allows educators to better cater for diversity, provide targeted assistance to students most in need, and gain insights on unit and assessment design. A student version, MyLearn, makes learning analytics accessible to stimulate intellectual curiosity.

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Immersive Experiential Learning

An Interactive Teaching Pedagogy for Practice-based Subjects using Augmented Virtuality (AV), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Project Summary

Nowadays, immersive technologies are commonly adopted to supplement traditional training. However, these technologies may not fully replicate the physical and sensory experiences of real-world practice, which could affect the transferability of skills to actual work environments. To tackle this challenge, this project utilises an interactive teaching pedagogy that incorporates augmented virtuality (AV) technology to provide learners with a simulated environment which blends virtual and real-world elements. This approach allows students to interact with and manipulate objects in a more realistic and engaging way, offering them hands-on training and enhancing experiential learning.

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Applying concepts of VR to real-world business challenges | Singapore Management University Industry Project-based Experiential Learning (INDEX) Approach, Singapore Management University

Project Summary

Singapore Management University (SMU) adopted an avant-garde approach to immersive experiential learning and global citizenry. Our pioneering course utilizes Virtual Reality (VR) to deeply engage students with foreign cultures. Through our VR platform, learners are transported to study destinations, interacting with AI-driven avatars of locals, fostering an understanding of etiquettes, language, and customs. This transformative method enhances students' academic and cultural readiness, as they navigate a digitally connected world. By embracing this digital frontier, we empower students to not only anticipate tomorrow's reality but also to shape it today, embodying the essence of our industry project-based experiential learning programme.

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Beyond Gamification: LIPHA Do-It-Yourself Meta-Simulation Game Worlds for Deep Learning in Healthcare, Baycrest Health Sciences

Project Summary

LIPHA, the Learning Inter-Professionally Healthcare Accelerator, is evidence-based software that enables educators to create digital game worlds as meta-simulations (i.e., curated series of integrated, progressively complex simulation-based experiences). Real world problems presented as simulacra, case simulations, eLearning, and mini-games empower learners to pace and rehearse critical lessons. LIPHA promotes specialized competencies, professional socialization, interprofessionalism and readiness for values-based practice for deep learning. The game rules, economy, world, meta-narrative, art, music, feedback and rewards system intensify learner engagement. As a do-it-yourself platform, educators can teach any topic and monitor learning analytics. LIPHA can be adapted for education or industry training.

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Brainspark Games, Brainspark Games Ltd

Project Summary

Multi-award winning EdTech Gaming studio, Brainspark Games, is building an AI-powered eduverse of free culturally-inclusive, 3D-open-world, immersive educational mobile games aligned with the national curriculum, using Augmented-Reality and pioneering NeuroGames Technology for 7-13yos Our games condense 12 weeks term time learning into a few hours of fun fast gameplay. Confidentially we are currently building Innovate UK funded GCSE games.

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Exploring Vietnam's cultural heritage through the VinHeritage Metaverse., VinUniversity

Project Summary

Students embark on an extraordinary journey through Vietnam in the VinHeritage Metaverse, a groundbreaking project meticulously curated by VinUniversity's ingenious students, librarians, and faculty. Step into a futuristic realm of cultural exploration with this "Open Museum" – an innovative digital platform that features an extensive collection of award-winning photographs curated by Vietnam Heritage Magazine, accompanied by captivating media sourced from VinUniversity's Environmental Intelligence Center. Immerse yourself in Vietnam's opulent heritage as you traverse this unparalleled virtual odyssey, unveiling the nation's beauty, traditions, ethnic minorities, and history within a revolutionary digital expanse, provided by the Spatial.io platform.

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Exploring the World Beyond: A Paradigm Shift in Education with 360imx VR Field Trips, National University of Singapore (NUS)

Project Summary

Education rapidly shifts from abstract to real, as Dr. Gretchen Coffman of NUS Geography Department and NUS Libraries' Digital Strategy and Innovation team unveil a groundbreaking collaboration. By harnessing the potential of 360-degree field trip films, the team has unlocked the capability to transport classrooms across the globe. This transformative journey is facilitated by the cutting-edge 360imx (pronounced 360imax) technology, an immersive 6m-wide cylinder boasting enveloping 360-degree visuals and surround sound. This innovation not only breathes life into content but also forges an unparalleled communal bond among students and all audiences, setting it apart from conventional VR headsets

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INSEAD Immersive Learning Initiative, a global center of excellence at the INSEAD Middle East Campus, INSEAD

Project Summary

INSEAD XR is a comprehensive, scalable, cost-effective and easy-to-use XR-based teaching solution that increases the impact of education by making it more immersive, engaging and memorable.

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Immersive Learning on the Run: Student–staff Partnership for Technology-facilitated Ubiquitous Learning, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Project Summary

This project aims at preparing students for and facilitating out-of-classroom learning and reflection through an immersive environment. By creating an environment that allows for content co-creation and peer collaboration, students can have access to real-life encounters and replicate ad-hoc learning scenarios. In addition, this project not only improves student engagement and promotes a pedagogical model with collaborative learning and student–staff partnership as key elements, it also has a sustainable nature due to the recurrent recruitment of student helpers who recently completed the subject to give support to the new cohort of students.

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Immersive VR roleplay to foster interpersonal skills in an MBA accounting course, RMIT University

Project Summary

Project XR Transend is a pioneering VR simulation that immerses MBA accounting students in a workplace setting to train their interpersonal skills. Students take on the role of junior financial analysts in a mock consulting firm, providing financial advice to a Chief Operating Officer facing financial challenges. This experiential learning project has had a significant impact, enhancing students' career development skills. In collaboration with Talespin, an industry partner, the project was launched in 2022, and around 300 students have successfully participated. It is the first of its kind to seamlessly integrate soft skills with hard skills within the accounting context.

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Spacebuzz - be an ambassador for the Earth!, SpaceBuzz Hungary Education, Climate and Environment Foundation

Project Summary

The SpaceBuzz® Education Programme aims to empower the next generation to think and behave responsibly about climate and the environment, and to turn their interest towards STEM subjects. To achieve our goal, we use experiential STE(A)M education. The children learn about space, our solar system, the living and non-living environment of our planet and optionally take part in a VR space trip. Experience-based STE(A)M education. We provide student workbooks, teacher's manuals, STEM guides for teachers. Schools will be provided with mission aids and tools in special boxes. Teachers will be prepared through online interface. Education is free. Registration required.

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Startup Wars: The Entrepreneurship Simulation Platform, STARTUP WARS, INC.

Project Summary

Startup Wars is a platform for delivering personalized entrepreneurial experiences. Our platform gives students the power to choose experiential simulations that are tailored to their *individual* interests, while still providing instructors an easy to use and standardized form of grading. Students are able to engage with entrepreneurship simulations that are both enjoyable and captivating, tailored to their individual career paths, regardless of their background or major. Our platform was built for students, by students. We have worked directly with over 4,000 students in the creation process.

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The Long Day of Young Peng, London School of Economics

Project Summary

The Long Day of Young Peng is an interactive story based on the open-source tool Twine that uses original ethnographic material (fieldnotes, interviews, pictures and videos elicited through a participatory approach) to chronicle one day in the life of Peng, a young Chinese migrant. In this interactive ethnography, the player is put in Peng’s shoes on his journey from his native village to Beijing in search of employment. Through interacting with other characters, the player relives Peng’s first day in Beijing and explores topics in the scholarship of contemporary Chinese society, migration, fieldwork methodologies and creative writing.

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The Metaverse and Sustainable Development: A Virtual Exhibition of Innovative Ideas, IE University

Project Summary

This project focuses on harnessing the potential of the Metaverse, to address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Students of the Master in Digital Business & Innovation and the Master in Business Analytics and Big Data were challenged to develop innovative ideas and solutions that utilize the Metaverse to support at least one SDG. These ideas were presented in a virtual exhibition gallery, showcasing the students' vision for a sustainable future. Through extensive research and exploration of the Metaverse, students identified key sustainability challenges and sought to tackle them through creative and feasible means.

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Virtual_Decisions: KNIVES, Round Midnight

Project Summary

Virtual_Decisions: KNIVES is a pioneering VR education tool, empowering youth to make informed choices in realistic social scenarios. This immersive experience fosters emotional intelligence, conflict resolution, and addresses issues like knife crime. Designed for ages 11 to 25, it's also impactful for educators and adults. The project guarantees 100% engagement, underpinned by research with over 1200 young people. Created with eye-tracking technology and tailored for accessibility, it promotes experiential learning in a trauma-informed manner. Rooted in creativity and innovation, Virtual_Decisions: KNIVES stands out as a transformative educational solution and a strong contender for the QS Reimagine Education Experiential Innovation Award.

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XR Road Traffic Accident and Hazmat Training System, NUS CUTE Center, National University of Singapore (NUS), Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX), Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF)

Project Summary

The NUS CUTE Center, in partnership with Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX) and the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF), has unveiled a pioneering multi-sensory extended reality system. It revolutionizes SCDF ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT AND HAZMAT TRAINING by immersing them in realistic scenarios, engaging their senses of sight, hearing, touch, heat and even smell. This innovative world-first approach enhances readiness for road traffic accident rescue and hazardous material mitigation. This collaboration marks a significant stride in SCDF training, offering a unique and comprehensive preparation for officers to effectively tackle road traffic accident rescue challenges and management of hazardous materials.

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Innovation in Business Education

Bachelor of Business, RMIT

Project Summary

RMIT's Bachelor of Business (B.Bus) program is a groundbreaking, co-designed initiative, aligning with the College of Business and Law's strategy of blending business, technology, and societal impact. Bolstered by over 50 integrated industry partnerships, including prominent collaborators like Medibank, Australian Red Cross, EY, Amazon Web Services, and Adobe, the program offers students an unparalleled mix of academic rigour and practical insights. Over 4,800 students from Australia, Vietnam, and Singapore have led the way - forming a new generation of business leaders adeptly prepared to navigate contemporary challenges and champion meaningful societal change.

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EDHEC-IBM Learning Partnership, EDHEC Business School

Project Summary

EDHEC's Global MBA and IBM France met 6 years ago to discuss how to better prepare MBA graduates for a digital world and to bring them up-to-date with real-world digital knowledge for their careers. The demand for digital- and data-savvy business graduates is rising exponentially in the face of digital disruption in all sectors, functions and locations. For 5 years, EDHEC and IBM Learning Partnership has produced a Digital Innovation specialisation, learning treks, conferences, applied projects, and employer branding opportunities with the goal of bridging the gap between managers and engineers, opening minds to the power of technology.

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Elevating the purpose of the Business School to change the world: the new Generation MBA., Politecnico di Milano School of Management

Project Summary

Politecnico di Milano School of Management launched a pioneering partnership with The Mind at Work (MAW) to elevate the purpose of management education, enable its students and alumni to take a leading role in addressing today’s global challenges, and reorient the purpose of businesses from profit maximisation toward shaping a better future for all. From 2019, the partnership has driven a profound and widespread transformation, creating remarkable benefits for all our community, ultimately demonstrating the possibility that business schools can play a key role toward creating a more sustainable and inclusive society. The New-Generation MBA is a key outcome.

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Financial Iteration Method for Entrepreneurs, Tecnológico de Monterrey

Project Summary

Financial Iteration empowers early-stage entrepreneurs, SME owners, and freelancers with essential financial skills and tools to evaluate project or company profitability, scalability, and financial value within 2 to 4 hours. Rooted in lean startup and design thinking methodologies, it enhances these approaches by incorporating quantitative aspects for hypothesis validation. This methodology fosters heightened awareness of the financial consequences of decisions, enabling entrepreneurs to devise more effective strategies and significantly improve venture survival rates.

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Futures In Leadership, University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School

Project Summary

We take fourth year undergraduates out of the classroom and give them an all-abilities outdoor experiential learning experience. They work with inspiring leaders from an Everest summit heroine, through to an NHS consultant, an actor to an ex-Special Forces leader to develop their own internal skills and strengths. This pioneering course teaches students about themselves, to connect them to the skills they need in the workplace. The critical difference is they are not reflecting on leadership as a theory, but on their own internal leadership and teamwork. Assessment is based on students’ creating a personal project action plan for themself.

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IMD SPRINT for business mastery and transformation, IMD - International Institute for Management Development

Project Summary

In 2021, IMD launched its first Sprint program, Digital Transformation Sprint – a new online program delivered through an innovative, technology-mediated learning experience. The “sprint” concept provides a short, intense, and highly focused 15-day learning journey for busy executives who want to refresh their knowledge and upskill quickly. Sprint is an intense two-week development experience mixing comprehensive, hyper-relevant synchronous and asynchronous modes of learning each day, including live lectures by IMD Faculty; live sessions with learning managers, in-house executives, subject matter experts, and guest speakers; asynchronous online video materials; group work projects; assignments; readings; and built-in preparation time.

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Information Technology Management for Business (ITMB) Program, University of Hertfordshire hosted by Global Academic Foundationn

Project Summary

ChatGPT The "ITMB: Bridging Modern Tech Skills with Tomorrow's Business Needs" program is a pioneering educational initiative designed for the digital age. It seamlessly integrates cutting-edge technical training in areas like AI, blockchain, and cloud computing with essential soft skills like emotional intelligence and innovative thinking. Recognizing the evolving demands of the modern workplace, ITMB equips students to be holistic professionals, adept at leveraging technology for meaningful, human-centric solutions. Beyond mere technical proficiency, the program emphasizes a balanced approach, ensuring graduates are not just tech-savvy but also possess the cognitive flexibility and empathy to lead in diverse business environments.

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Innovative Three-Pronged Teaching Approach in Business Education., Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris

Project Summary

An innovative teaching method employs the 'Student as Manager' model, engaging business students in managerial tasks to enhance collaboration and decision-making within a simulated management team. The approach integrates GBL, PBL, and CBL to equip students for intricate global business challenges. It fosters active learning, creativity, collaboration, and industry engagement, with tasks aligned to course objectives. Implemented in a Strategic Management course, it yielded an 83.3% achievement in Course Learning Outcomes, demonstrating its effectiveness in nurturing 21st-century skills. Endorsed for enriching skill and knowledge as required at current industrial phenomena, as this approach aligns with academic program review.

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Merging business and wellbeing: The art of values-centred education, Griffith University

Project Summary

The Griffith University Masters of Business Administration Suite has reshaped the world’s most popular business degree by combining philosophies of wellbeing and values with pedagogies of sustainability and systems thinking. Our unique learning design rethinks this traditional business degree by pushing students to both critically examine and improve their underlying values, beliefs, and assumptions about the purpose of business and how to lead a purpose-driven organisation. Most importantly, the program empowers students to better align and reach exponential positive impact in their professional and personal lives.

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Net-zero microcredential, Shanghai University MBA

Project Summary

Transition to net-zero is a key challenge for business (and society in general). By adding this microcredential SHU MBA became the first higher education programme in China to incorporate net-zero in its curriculum. Net-zero goes beyond [only] the creation of economic value, it is key for society. By having this microcredential SHU MBA graduates will be equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills to exercise a change in the way the economic activity is carried out.

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REP, Indian Institute Of Management–Indore

Project Summary

IIM Indore, a renowned institution in the world of management education, has consistently offered its students a comprehensive and socially focused learning experience. Back in 2009, the Rural Engagement Programme REP was incorporated into the first-year post-graduate program curriculum. This initiative was designed with the intention of sensitizing future managers and entrepreneurs to government initiatives in rural areas, as well as evaluating their implementation and impact. Spanning across multiple districts in Madhya Pradesh, the REP offers invaluable insights into district-level governance, policy administration, and identifies gaps in execution.

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Tech-Driven Entrepreneurship: Innovating to Empower Future Entrepreneurs, Tecnológico de Monterrey

Project Summary

The Bachelor in Entrepreneurship Program (LDE) Innovation Project is a multicampus national project that involves a deep redesign of the curriculum, in order to allow students to develop entrepreneurial skills and mindset, and apply the knowledge to a transversal multi-semester project of their own while receiving accompaniment in the process. The LDE program is currently offered at 8 campuses of the Tec de Monterrey and is eight semesters long. The project focuses on the implementation of 6 types of innovative interventions within the curriculum design along the 8 semester-long journey of future entrepreneurs.

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The Aston Global Advantage, Aston University

Project Summary

The Aston Global Advantage is our professional development programme and an integrated module that runs throughout all of our postgraduate courses in business and law. The programme equips students with transferable skills and relevant experiences for the workplace, giving them a competitive edge in the job market, or for when starting a business. Flexible and personalised, this programme can be tailored to their career aspirations, development needs, or existing professional experience.

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Triumphing from Falls: Celebrating Failure as the Foundation of Growth, Universidad de las Américas

Project Summary

The project creates an event where speakers share experiences of failure, highlighting how these challenges become opportunities for growth. Speakers describe how they applied these lessons to propel their progress, providing valuable insights for tackling personal and professional challenges. The event fosters a culture where failure is valued as a catalyst for growth and redefines its role. Immersed in these inspiring narratives, attendees learn to embrace challenges as growth opportunities and reassess their relationship with failure.

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Learning Assessment

From Campus to Career E-book: Revolutionizing Assessment with AI-driven Mock Job Interview Simulator, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK)

Project Summary

The "Campus2Career E-book: AI Interviewing Simulator Assessment" is at its early stage to propose an innovative formative assessment tool based on a tailor-made SimuView Framework to bridge the gap between academic preparation and professional success. This cutting-edge assessment leverages AI technology to offer students a dynamic platform for honing their job interview skills in a realistic and risk-free environment. Through interactive scenarios, students could gain valuable experience, receive personalized feedback to enhance their language proficiency, communication and interpersonal skills, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities. This breakthrough could ensure students are well-prepared and equipped for successful job interviews and career opportunities.

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Graide - Using Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Grading Workload and Increase Student Feedback, GRAIDE

Project Summary

Graide is a technology platform that uses artificial intelligence to assist educators in grading and providing feedback on student assessments. It uses various methods, including visual editing, optical character recognition, markdown, and stylus entry, to input student answers. The answers are then graded and evaluated by the educator. Graide provides suggestions for improvement through workflow optimisation and artificial intelligence. The AI learns feedback methods, improving accuracy over time and reducing grading time, allowing educators to focus on other teaching aspects. Graide significantly reduces the time required for educators to grade assessments.

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Innovative Alternative Assessment for Engineers in Society (EIS) Course Integrating SULAM and Design Thinking (EiS-DT) Approaches, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia

Project Summary

An authentic innovative alternative assessment has been developed to assess students' ability to solve real-world community problems in the field of civil engineering. This alternative assessment, known as EiS-Dt (Engineers in Society - Design Thinking), integrates the Service-Learning Malaysia University for Society (SULAM) and Design Thinking approaches. Its purpose is to evaluate the desired outcomes of the Engineers in Society course (ECC589) and promote higher-order thinking skills (HOTs) and essential skill sets for societal well-being within higher education institutions (IHLs). The alternative assessment narrative focuses on fostering creativity, invention, prototype design, testing, and analysis to address and solve community challenges.

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Learning Outcome Indicators using AI Grading of Assessments, SMARTAIL PVT LTD

Project Summary

DeepGrade is a cutting edge product from Smartail, Pioneers in grading of handwritten Objective & descriptive answers of students with AI and help identify knowledge, learning, understanding gaps of learners to educators, to plan remedial accordingly. We enable and empower educators with decision science. DeepGrade helps with deep insights into real learnings, understanding & conceptual gaps along with spelling, grammatical errors from what is being taught by the educator to both educator and learner to helps enhance overall quality. The USP is using AI technology such as CV, DL, NaturalLanguageProgramming we look for context/intent/meaning of responses suporting K-12 and higheducation.

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Projotech Assessment Framework, Protopia EdTech For Education and Training Computer Software

Project Summary

Projotech is a smart interactive cloud-based platform that promotes student engagement in project based learning while fostering the development of indispensable 21st-century skills in middle and high school and higher education. Beyond skills' development, Projotech employs an advanced and unique assessment framework to evaluate project outcomes, learning objectives, and relevant skills' indicators. The assessment is generative, constructive and multidimensional. Projotech facilitates customized rubrics that are aligned with educational standards, skills and achievement indicators. Moreover, Projotech achieves unique differentiation among students of the same team working on the same project.

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The Collage App - Self-directed attainment tracking for children out of school, Homegrown Learning Limited

Project Summary

With approx 4.3M young people across the world now being educated out of school, the need to independently capture learning, track progress and evidence has created a market for home education tracking and diagnostic tools. This project will utilise the Collage App, a parent/professional home school tracking tool that stores and evidences children's progress against multiple curriculums, to deploy a self-directed, child-led approach to curriculum-based progress, attainment and evidencing - utilising AI-enabled functionality to support learning progression and reflection.

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USask RE-ENGINEERED First-Year Engineering Program, University of Saskatchewan

Project Summary

The team at USask completely re-designed its First Year Engineering program, aiming to excite, engage and inspire students, and to thoroughly equip students for future challenges. The result is a program unique in Canada for multiple reasons, foremost of which is the grounding in competency-based assessment (CBA) which is a relatively new concept in Canadian engineering schools. After piloting CBA with a Statics course in 2020, the program officially commenced in 2021 amid the COVID pandemic. Despite initial challenges, the first two years of full-scale implementation successfully met the program’s original objectives.

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Lifelong Learning

AUC Road to College, American University in Cairo

Project Summary

This free program was designed to empower all learners, particularly high school students with minimal English language proficiency, to qualify for enrollment in English language instruction institutions. Often, their inadequate English skills bar them from applying to competitive colleges. The program delivers a series of free interactive language courses customized to the cultural context of the Middle East. These courses focus on enhancing academic language, communication skills, and digital literacy, and introducing them to university educational culture, ensuring their readiness for success in English language-based institutions. This preparation expands the horizons for undergraduate education and scholarships.

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BITS Pilani WILP (Work Integrated Learning Programmes), Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Project Summary

Our study focuses on BITS Pilani, a multi-modal University that pioneered Work Integrated Learning Programs (WILP) in 1979. Over four decades, these programs have catered to 135,000 working professionals. WILP at BITS Pilani blends academic rigor with workplace learning, enhancing knowledge and skills in various domains. These programs, collaboratively designed with industry input, offer Bachelor's (B.Tech., B.Sc.) or Master's (M.Tech., M.Sc., M.B.A.) degrees. Our research employed direct observation, document review, social media analysis, and interviews with stakeholders to evaluate employability, relevance, scalability, quality, and sustainability, ensuring a comprehensive assessment of this transformative education model.

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Empowering Lifelong Learning: Outstanding Work by Students Portal and Exhibition, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Project Summary

The Outstanding Work by Students (OWS) Portal and Exhibition at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) serves as a catalyst for boosting the self-esteem of students who doubt their potential and for building intellectual connections that transcend time, space, and academic domains. This university strategic initiative empowers students to reflect on their accomplishments, develop confidence, and foster a can-do attitude by curating and showcasing reflections, successful experiences, lessons learned from failures, and relevant open educational resources for self-guided learning from award-winning or social innovation projects. Its online portal and prominent exhibition space inspire tens of thousands of visitors daily.

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GoSkills Course Library: Redefining MOOCs Through a Microlearning Lens to Make Learning Rich, Stimulating, and Fun, GoSkills

Project Summary

The GoSkills course library is a collection of over 110 high-quality and CPD-accredited business courses that use microlearning principles for effective skill-building in today’s fast-paced workplace. By featuring bite-sized lessons, gamification, and hands-on exercises, GoSkills courses have become the go-to choice of busy professionals who want to advance their careers through top-notch online education. Topics are carefully curated and taught by handpicked expert instructors to help individual learners and companies successfully meet the job market demands. Our quality-over-quantity approach has helped us differentiate ourselves from the saturated MOOC market and has contributed to powerful transformations among our learners.

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Jinja Skills Training : Unlocking Youth Employment Prospects, Shine with Skills Foundation

Project Summary

SHINE WITH SKILLS, a non-governmental program, is empowering vulnerable youth in Uganda to break the cycle of poverty through sustainable informal skills training. The program works with existing organizations and funding partners to scale up interventions at the community level, focusing on technical work and agro-machinery innovation. SHINE WITH SKILLS trains youth in a variety of informal skills, such as welding, tailoring, mechanics, and computer literacy. These skills are in high demand in the Ugandan economy, and they provide youth with the opportunity to start their own businesses or find employment in high-paying jobs.

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Living Conversations, UPES

Project Summary

‘Living Conversations’ is an innovative life skills education project embedded with a unique gamification framework. Today, this is world’s first gamified life skills education project that has empowered more than 1,000 students with 21st-century life skills, from different demographics of India, with 100% student engagement. This groundbreaking initiative has won ‘Blackboard Award Asia Pacific 2021’, ‘Catalyst Award Worldwide 2022’, and ‘Catalyst Award Worldwide 2023’. Through this innovation, we fostered students’ self-awareness, leadership development, and personality enhancement, even in a virtual environment. Students got so involved with the project that they became the highlight of their international and national level.

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Medical Technology portfolio, Delft University of Technology

Project Summary

The challenges facing good healthcare provision are several and many-faceted – requiring rigorous and innovative training to ensure current and future demands can be met in a sustainable manner. This is particularly significant for professionals in Low- and Middle-Income Countries with critical needs and limited resources. This is the goal behind our dedicated Medical Technology portfolio of online courses and programs: teaching others (surgeons, educators, hospital staff, MedTech professionals and engineers) to tackle healthcare pressing challenges by providing knowledge and skills based on the latest research and applications – ultimately helping them save lives, every day, everywhere.

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Observatory of Entrepreneurship and Employability of the Elderly, Universidad del Rosario - Fondo de pensiones y cesantías Porvenir

Project Summary

The Observatory of Entrepreneurship and Employability of the Elderly (OEEE) seeks to understand, analyze, and act upon the main challenges that older people face related to well-being, leisure and productivity. This project is carried out in partnership between Universidad del Rosario and the private pension and severance fund, Porvenir.

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Scalable Mentorship, Dreami

Project Summary

There are 36 million people in the US with barriers to employment--this includes those who are formerly incarcerated, low income families, non-English speakers, single parents, individuals with disabilities and the unhoused. These populations rely on government funded programs to access educational and career resources to upskill, develop and pursue a career to change their life. Dreami’s powerful B2B software plans, automates and tracks scalable and data-driven mentorship as our flagship offering, and internship and career coaching programs as secondary offerings.

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UCSI SHINE: Sustainable Health Intervention and Nutrition Education, UCSI University

Project Summary

UCSI SHINE is a Community-Engaged, Research-Extensive, and industry-collaborative project, SHINE embraces its responsibility to positively contribute to the health and well-being of our local communities. SHINE provides interdisciplinary strengths across the university, industry, and other stakeholders, and the collaborative efforts needed to Think, Engage, and Contribute to the very critical work of addressing grand challenges and seemingly intractable problems, particularly in health-related consequences. The students are able to reach the community through mega physical events and are able to enhance their interpersonal skills with real life and at a large scale after the long break due to the pandemic.

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Nurturing Employability

ACHIEVE Program - School of Business Administration, Oakland University

Project Summary

Oakland University’s ACHIEVE program empowers students with vital competencies for personal and professional success, enhancing employability and bridging the gap between education and career. Delivered through three integrated courses in the business curriculum, ACHIEVE is a ‘best practice’ and ‘difference maker’ for developing communication, professionalism, critical thinking, self-awareness, equity, and inclusion skills demanded by today’s job market. ACHIEVE’s student-centered model features expert educators, industry volunteers and AI technology for individualized feedback and coaching, setting it apart from traditional career development programs. ACHIEVE boasts a proven record of improving learning and employability, and empowering students to confidently navigate the professional world.

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AOU Initiative for Training and Employment (Future Teachers Track), Arab Open University

Project Summary

In 2019, the training and employment initiative was a dream without finding the required supporting budget. Also, when we started planning this initiative, the employment ratio of our graduates was low and unacceptable. We worked hard with a notable and recognized organization in the employability skills sector to design the most updated and required programs to enhance the graduates’ skills. At the same time, we started communicating with government entities, private sector organizations, and companies to afford job opportunities. After over three years, we can proudly confirm our ability to support and offer our professional programs fully financially.

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Active learning in a blended educational environment within the College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Zayed University, College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Zayed University

Project Summary

Three years ago, Zayed University (ZU) initiated a major transformation aimed at strengthening the employability of its students and empowering graduates to advance business innovation and societal transformation. This resulted in forming the College of Interdisciplinary Studies (CIS). CIS’s curriculum and programs are founded on three key pillars: 1) Interdisciplinary majors, 2) Active learning within a blended learning environment 3) Experiential learning via innovative Partner Challenge program ZU introduced interdisciplinary programs in Business Transformation, Social Innovation, Computational Systems, and Sustainability. Students actively participate in online classes through the innovative educational platform, Forum, and further apply their knowledge during face-to-face sessins.

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Cultivating global citizenship through SMU Industry x Project-Based Experiential Learning Overseas Approach, Singapore Management University

Project Summary

SMU INDEX is an immersive programme fostering collaboration between students, faculty, and industry partners to address real-world business, social, and emerging challenges. The Overseas Project Experience (OPE) extends this program abroad, providing students with hands-on opportunities to tackle overseas organisations' unique challenges. Through projects in diverse industries, students collaborate with hosts to deepen their understanding of these organisations' issues. The world becomes their classroom, nurturing critical thinking, problem-solving, teamwork, and global citizenship. OPE cultivates well-rounded individuals attuned to real-world complexities, equipping them to be impactful problem solvers and contributing positively to society.

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InSkillingTM by InStride, InStride

Project Summary

InSkilling™ enables corporate partners to remove bachelor’s degree requirements from job roles by determining the skills necessary to perform each of the roles. Removing degree requirements expands a corporate partner’s talent pool, which increases diversity in hiring, reduces time-to-fill, and strengthens candidate pools for open positions. Once degree requirements have been removed, companies can take the natural next step of implementing Career Education Paths to ensure employees can continue to advance their careers.

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Inclusive Graduate Success through the Graduate Projects Office (GPO), Staffordshire University

Project Summary

Our Graduate Projects Office (GPO) initiative supports graduates from underrepresented groups struggling to secure graduate work in their chosen professions. Using data and survey diagnostics a dedicated Graduate team run calling campaigns targeting those graduates who need support to transition successfully into the graduate labour market. The team apply a range of interventions designed to improve skills, confidence and ultimately gain a suitable graduate job: - One-to-one career coaching identifying skill gaps, co-creating action plans - A paid graduate internship - An Enterprise Start-up paid placement - A subsidised place in the PGCertificate in Personal Development Practice, a tailored programme

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JOB+, Cturtle

Project Summary

JOB+ uses AI to solve the "who you know" problem for university graduates globally by making critical employer and alumni introductions to help graduates develop professional networks and improve their graduate employment outcomes.

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Job Smart: award winning program, reimagined, The University of Sydney Business School

Project Summary

The Job Smart Program has won many awards since its inception in 2016. We are very proud of our 2020 QS Reimagine Education Global Education Award, and we have spent the last 2 years finessing the program. Most recently, we have re-designed our Job Smart Program to enable true scale, using edTech platforms and tools. Whilst face to face interaction is preferred by many, we need to utilise technology in order to truly scale career development programs.

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Level UP, Riipen

Project Summary

Riipen launched the Level UP program to deliver paid online, customizable and flexible micro-internship placements to post-secondary learners across all academic disciplines, with the goal of reaching underserved and underrepresented learners. Each placement lasts 80 hours, spanning anywhere from two to eight weeks, and comes with a set $1,400 stipend. The participants also receive employer feedback and skills validation that is housed on an e-portfolio on Riipen’s platform.

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MSA Capstone Project, The Ultimate Career Enhancer, Texas A&M University, Master of Science in Analytics

Project Summary

As part of a graduation requirement, students in the Master of Science in analytics program are responsible for bringing a business problem and a dataset from their place of employment. Throughout their time in the degree, the students go through the motions of data wrangling, data cleaning, database creation, model exploration, model selection, model validation all the way to meaningful data driven recommendations. This project has earned our graduate students hands-on, real world expertise that very few other programs can replicate. The capstone project also allows the transferability of skills. Students often use it to market themselves to employers.

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MyBrand: Enhancing Student Success in Market-Oriented Higher Education through Portfolio-based Professional Development at Budapest Metropolitan University, Budapest Metropolitan University - Budapest

Project Summary

MyBrand, the flagship student success initiative of METU, aims to enhance career prospects through a portfolio-based framework encompassing taught courses, advising and career services. Over its 5-year existence, the project has engaged 497 faculty and 5690 students. MyBrand spans the student journey from enrollment to graduation in three major streams: 1. Skills development, 2. Digital portfolio building through experiential learning courses, 3. Career advising and portfolio presentation to prospective employers. MyBrand plays a pivotal role in METU's commitment to innovative, market-oriented education, empowering students to translate their studies into professional success and wellbeing.

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Warwick Award, University of Warwick

Project Summary

The Warwick Award is Warwick University’s new, institution-wide skills award which recognises students’ employability skills development, both within and alongside their studies. Based around the 12 Warwick Core Skills, it enables students to think more deeply about the skills they already have, identify those they wish to develop further, and consider how they will articulate these skills to employers. The award recognises a wide range of skills development activities, meaning that students can create their own individual path through the Award by selecting the activities most relevant to their interests, availability, skills development needs and career goals.

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Nurturing Values and Ethics

Empathy Through Avatars: Cultivating Cross-Cultural Understanding in the Metaverse, Talpiot College of Education

Project Summary

This transformative MOOC employs the metaverse and collaborative learning, enabling participants to not only understand but embody cultural diversity via avatars, thereby combating racism and enhancing empathy. It champions values like respect, equality, and cross-cultural tolerance. In cohorts of six, students initiate learning via experience-sharing, followed by issue immersion through virtual simulations and role-playing. Academic content is introduced through interactive animated videos, stimulating discourse within small groups. The eight-unit curriculum culminates in a virtual escape room revision. Available in English, Hebrew, and Arabic, this course signifies an innovative approach to cultural education, impacting on fostering inclusivity and empathy.

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Fostering Equitable Eyecare for Children with Special Education Needs: Revolutionising Optometry and Special Education with Values and Compassion, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Project Summary

Our innovative initiative merges optometry with special education, empowering future professionals with skills and ethical standards to address the unique vision needs of special education needs (SEN) children. Through immersive workshops, students can explore SEN children’s vision needs, culminating in a joint vision screening. This interdisciplinary project enhances students’ confidence and instils deep empathy for this underserved population, transcending conventional academic goals. As evidenced by our student feedback, we are shaping a new generation of empathetic professionals equipped and eager to serve this vulnerable group. Ultimately, our mission is to champion equitable eyecare and foster an inclusive, caring society.

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Learners to Leaders, CHRIST (Deemed to be University)

Project Summary

At the heart of the Centre for Social Action (CSA) lies a powerful mission: to mould compassionate leaders of tomorrow through hands-on volunteerism. CSA provides a dynamic platform for students to step out of their comfort zones and engage with underprivileged communities. This isn't just an initiative; it's a reflection of CHRIST University's vision to impart holistic, values-driven education. CSA equips students with a profound awareness of societal realities, instils the values of social responsibility, and sparks ideas for uplifting marginalized sections. In this transformative journey, students become leaders who learn from the world beyond textbooks, embracing responsibility.

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Photovoice and Photo-elicitation for Training Health Professions Students' Awareness of Ageism in Healthcare, and Promoting Professional Interest in Working with Older Patients, Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit, School of Clinical Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong

Project Summary

With increased exposure to frail and vulnerable older patients, health professions students may develop negative age-related attitudes that impair their future patient care. Last year, the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing also called for international action to “change how we think, feel and act towards age and ageing”. Visual images evoke emotions, abstract ideas, enabling dialogues to debunk stereotypes and prejudices. We sought to harness the potential of Photovoice & Photo-elicitation for enhancing awareness of ageism in healthcare, improving student attitudes towards caring for older patients, and promoting learners' positive outlook in embracing their own personal ageing process.

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Playful Pathways to Global Citizenship: Cultivating Civic Changemakers, Education for Sharing (E4S)

Project Summary

Education for Sharing's ludic methodology is a dynamic educational approach that ignites the passion of young learners aged 3 to 18, transforming them into proactive global citizens. Rooted in the power of play, reflection, and action, it nurtures the embodiment of civic virtues, cultivates essential social-emotional skills, and sheds light on society's most pressing challenges encapsulated within the SDGs. Over 16 years, E4S has motivated over 1.7 million learners, educators, mentors, and parents in 12 countries to recognize their potential as change-makers who can contribute to crafting a kinder, more respectful, tolerant, and sustainable society for all.

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Project Tai (Eagle)-Centers of Excellence, Strathmore University

Project Summary

Project Tai's multifaceted approach seeks to address the challenges in education and character development by empowering teachers, engaging parents, and mentoring high school students, ultimately aiming to create a more holistic and values-driven educational experience in rural schools in Kenya. We believe that the trinity of excellence that would make schools centres of excellence has to involve the key stakeholders in schools at a personal and communal level by fostering values and ethics as the best pathway to sustainable growth.

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Rights, Relationships and Respect, Australian National University

Project Summary

Advancements in research and policy, alongside longstanding advocacy by survivors of sexual violence, have prompted a transformation of practices relating to how universities address sexual violence. Combining primary prevention and response objectives, teams from the University Experience Division and Centre for Social Research and Methods at the Australian National University conceptualised, implemented, and evaluated the Rights, Relationships and Respect (RRR) program. The RRR online module engaged over 3000 students in Semester 1, 2023 and covers content on respectful relationships, consent, and care and support pathways. Additionally, a peer-led workshop program for residential students was developed to extend learner engagement.

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The Journey as a Framework for the Practice of Values, Universidad del Rosario

Project Summary

As they begin their journey through the Universidad del Rosario, first-semester students take the flipped-learning course Cátedra Rosarista. This course encourages active learning as students pass through four stages of "travel": Embark, Sail, Disembark, and Remember. It employs a face-to-face gamification strategy, whereby students complete activities called “Expeditions through the Uni” in order to obtain badges of Institutional Values. They explore the University's services, diversity, and historical significance, and learn academic and life skills that they record in their Travel Log, a memento of their earliest days as Rosaristas. The course enrolls approximately 1,000 students every semester.

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The Starving Artist, University of Southern Queensland

Project Summary

'The Starving Artist'. The Starving Artist is an academic art initiative that utilizes art-based education to help people globally explore lived-in experiences of mental well-being, climate change and migrant identity. The Starving Artist seeks to redefine the current narratives and treatment surrounding these illnesses and diverse life experiences and help foster systemic reform through the power of creative voices. Some of the key focus areas include teaching individuals how to process and share their own experiences through visual arts, by creating artworks and arts-based research, publications, exhibitions, workshops, artist talks, and reflections.

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Vocational and socio-economic guidance for kids affected by organized crime, Pro-Educa Sinaloa IAP

Project Summary

The program seeks, through dynamic and game-based activities, to awaken the entrepreneurial spirit in elementary school students. In 12 sessions, we encourage kids to explore their likes/dislikes and self-reflect on their preconceived ideas of their abilities. Subsequently, they form teams with classmates and proceed to develop a product or service that addresses a need, problem or desire of their community, from which they imagine a business idea and create a mini-company. With this, we aid to the possibility that in the future our alumni will continue their academic trajectory, become honest/licit professionals and replicate their entrepreneurial experience.

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Nurturing Wellbeing and Purpose

Developing online mental health programs for university students and young adults, Curtin University

Project Summary

An estimated one in four university students experiencing mental ill health. To address this, mental health content was developed from an existing collaboration with members of German Suicide Prevention Program (World Health Organisation) to create a Mass Open Online Course (MOOC) to supports learners to develop strategies to help improve the mental health of people in their life, recognise concerning behaviours, and feel better prepared to have conversations about mental health. The program has been delivered in 194 countries, resulting to date in 54,222 enrolled learners. The program has been translated to German and make available to German students.

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Happypillar, Happypillar

Project Summary

Happypillar is a child and family mental health app that takes the tools and techniques of evidence-based therapies and makes them available 24/7. Our innovative program uses artificial intelligence (AI) to provide individualized support, analyzing parent-child communication and providing personalized feedback specific to children’s needs and goals.

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Ikigai Unleashed: Empowering Purposeful Youths for Malaysian Community Impact, Taylor's University, Malaysia

Project Summary

Purpose Learning, an initiative merging disciplinary academic learning with meaning and impact, is being fully embedded into the core Emotional Intelligence (EI) modules offered by Taylor’s University Malaysia. The vision is to ensure all first-year students discover and live their purpose, as present and future changemakers in society. Students develop EI in a compassionate, facilitated classroom while crafting an actionable purpose statement and selecting pathways to social solutions within the university called “Impact Labs”. The pilot data shows favourable outcomes, with students directly translating their purpose into actions for the Malaysian community, exemplified by an Impact Lab’s project development.

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MY Bamboo, Taylor’s University

Project Summary

MY Bamboo is a project where first year and first semester Architecture students design and build life-sized Bamboo Activity Structures for a real dormant green space, to activate its use. Our mission statement- to create vibrant and socially inclusive urban green spaces that are engaging to the community, to be an Agent of Change through Architecture!

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Make the most of my degree: in-person learning at UCC, University College Cork

Project Summary

Students transitioning to University College Cork in 2022 had for the most part, not learned in an in-person classroom setting for almost two years. Transitioning back to in-person delivery of learning comes with challenges that impact the students’ confidence, their participation in university life, their ability to manage academic time/expectations , and engage in activities that support their personal and professional development. The Make the Most of My Degree project delivered resources that support students in effectively utilizing their academic time, to develop core lifelong skills, graduate attributes, and values. It enhances the value they place on in-person learning experiences.

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PROGRESS WITH PURPOSE, Loughborough Business School

Project Summary

Despite its triple accreditation, Loughborough Business School does not have a top tier international profile. Dean Janet Godsell was determined to smash the barriers holding the School back from realising this potential. Unlocking greater belief, empowerment and purpose in staff was a critical first step. So the School created a new vision to reframe how staff thought about their work and career, bringing renewed energy, motivation and clarity of purpose to shape not just the quality and impact of the school’s output, student experience and overall profile, but long-term job satisfaction and wellbeing.

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PROJECT BOLD - Bold Horizons: Learn & Discover - Mental Health Awareness in Higher Education, César Ritz Colleges

Project Summary

Our project stands resolute in its mission to elevate awareness surrounding common mental health conditions and their unmistakable indicators. This initiative empowers every staff member to become a constant messenger of early intervention, akin to mental health "first aid." By fostering this collective understanding, we forge an unbreakable support net for our students throughout their campus journey, and their life beyond. However, we must acknowledge that while our campus reverberates with services tailored to our students, the absence of professional training among our valued faculty and staff is aiming at contributing to the

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Personal & Professional Development - A Curricular Intervention, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Project Summary

A comprehensive set of 16 courses newly brought into the curriculum at IIT Madras cater to the holistic development of the student community, helping in self-improvement on both the personal and professional fronts.

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Waking up individuals to clarify their best fit career path., WOKEN

Project Summary

WOKEN is a coaching service and digital platform that guides individuals through career path exploration, upskilling, personal branding, job searching, networking, interviewing, pivoting, and more. We strengthen individual's career readiness and drive engagement and accountability to make progress towards one's career goals. WOKEN offers one-on-one and group coaching, group coworking, proprietary software, and texting/emailing with a coach. Our specialty is driving an individuals' sense of clarity to identify their best fit career path (role, industry, environment) in just 2-3 months by following our novel, step by step, iterative, practical process of learning and reflection.

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Wellbeing Community of Practice (CoP) activating communities and transforming culture, Nanyang Technological University

Project Summary

To establish a culture of wellbeing that reaches out to all 40,000 staff and students, UWO employs an innovative and comprehensive community development strategy, characterised by the following stages: 1. Nurturing a Wellbeing Community of Practice (CoP) within the staff and student body 2. Activating communities through the CoP’s initiatives 3. Empowering the CoP to sustain the communities and enable them to thrive. The CoP will propel NTU past a ‘tipping point’ whereby shared values, beliefs, and behaviours pertaining to good mental health/wellbeing will 'spread like wildfire', due to the knock-on effect of the CoP on all NTU communities.

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Science of Learning

Content Localization for UH Franchised Modules, University of Hertfordshire hosted by Global Academic Fonndation

Project Summary

"The University of Hertfordshire (UH) is taking a significant step to globalize its educational reach. Recognizing the diverse cultural and linguistic landscape of Egypt, UH is embarking on a project to localize its franchised modules specifically for Egyptian learners. This initiative isn't just a mere translation of content; it's a comprehensive adaptation that considers Egypt's unique cultural nuances, idiomatic expressions, and educational contexts. By doing so, UH aims to provide a more relatable and effective learning experience for its Egyptian students. This endeavor underscores UH's commitment to inclusivity and its vision to offer tailored education

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Data-Driven Solutions: Empowering Students to Address Real-World Business Challenges, Deakin University

Project Summary

MIS171 (Business Analytics) is one of the largest units at Deakin University with about 2,000 students annually across four campuses. By adapting Active Learning and Experiential Learning approaches and incorporating data from women’s sports and sustainable solar electricity production, the MIS171 team developed a series of threaded case studies, which helped students bridge academic learning with practical applications. These partnerships address significant societal issues, promoting women in sports and sustainability, while preparing students for successful careers and impactful contributions to their communities. The program's impact is reflected in improved students' performance and satisfaction, enhanced employability, and enriched learning experience.

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Deblocking Method - Accelerating the Learning Process, Chapman Inglês Acelerado

Project Summary

The Deblocking Method introduces an innovative language acquisition approach and integrates cutting-edge neuroscientific principles. We harness the power of sound frequencies, rooted in neuroscience, to enrich the learning. These elements serve to inspire learners while activating the limbic system, and suppressing the reptilian brain's fight-or-flight responses. Through a stress-free environment, we alleviate language learning apprehension. Our educators stimulate students' brains, enabling them to acquire language as children do, through peripheral perceptions. By embracing suggestion and leveraging the subconscious, our approach promotes an immersive and enjoyable educational journey. This not only enhances language proficiency but boosts learner confidence to unprecedented levels.

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Developing Sophisticated Learners, COGx

Project Summary

Developing Sophisticated Learners (DSL), an entrepreneurial, evidence-based, field-initiated innovation designed to improve student achievement and attainment and to improve students’ social, emotional, and academic development, with a focus on underserved students. COGx DSL accomplishes this purpose by developing and supporting educator and school capacity to support social and emotional learning and development that fosters cognitive skills and behaviors that enable academic progress, and by providing high-quality professional development opportunities designed to increase learning, engagement and belonging. Furthermore, professional development is complemented with a companion program for students, Becoming a Sophisticated Learner (BSL), that helps them master how to learn optimally.

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Genius Education Zambia, Genius Education Zambia

Project Summary

Genius Education Zambia is an EdTech, social enterprise organisation that facilitates, enhances and promotes quality STEM education. Genius applyies a "systems change model" to revolutionise Zambian education by solving the problem at various strategic points. We empower the Zambian education system with 4th Industrial Revolution skills through creating, hosting and conducting emerging STEM programs, curriculum development and E-learning.

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Integrating Educational Robotics as a Congitive-Learning Tool in the Teaching and Learning Process, Frederick University Cyprus

Project Summary

The Robotics Academy (RA), an educational-research unit, has been intensively promoting educational robotics for ten years as a cognitive-learning tool. It has developed and implements a pioneer teaching methodology and an innovative Educational Robotics Curriculum. The philosophy and the pedagogical framework developed serve as the backbone of its activities, focusing on: Learning by Playing: Building and Programming robots, and Robotics as partners in Learning (Examine, Explore and Discover through Construction and Programming). Indicative activities of RA include: educational afternoon program, school visits, professional development trainings, summer clubs, participation in events (i.e. educational, charity), and in research and educational projects.

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Refugee Camp Simulation for Crisis Preparedness and Response, IE School of Politics, Economics and Global Affairs - IE University

Project Summary

Students engage in a hands-on simulation to master humanitarian crisis response skills. Guided by experts, including former Doctors Without Borders staff and IE Faculty, participants set up a mock refugee camp, immersing themselves in real-world challenges. Partners like UNCHR deliver on-site masterclasses, followed by a comprehensive wrap-up session. This experiential learning equips students to analyze complex situations and make human-centric decisions.

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Sustainability Education

ACES - A Community-Centred Educational Model for Developing Social Resilience Through Play and Frugal Design, Coventry University

Project Summary

The ACES project, ongoing since February 2020, develops social resilience among youth in Malaysia, Vietnam, and Indonesia. Aligned with the UN-SDGs, ACES employs innovative playful and frugal education approaches. It emphasises resilience amidst challenges like COVID-19, localising playful learning, upskilling teachers, and mobilising communities. ACES engages universities and communities across 10 regions of the three countries (over 5300 teachers and 2250 students) to co-create adaptable learning spaces and co-create educational resources. Through a participatory approach, ACES fosters transformative education and sustainability. This ongoing initiative has a meaningful and lasting impact on education and resilience in the region.

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Center for Social Innovation, Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

Project Summary

Our purpose is to develop academic and research strategies through a multidisciplinary team, which allows the approach of the primary social, economic and environmental needs of the indigenous communities of Chiapas State, strengthening relationships and the exchange of knowledge between native peoples, students, and academics; as a result of this meeting and dialogue, we promote the generation of innovative solutions for the common good.

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Creating a Brighter Future: Providing Sustainability Education for All Students at McGill University, McGill University

Project Summary

“Creating a Brighter Future: Sustainability at McGill” is a new online sustainability training module for all McGill students regardless of their program of study. The module introduces the concept of sustainability, shares sustainability-related initiatives and opportunities at McGill, and equips students to practice sustainability in their day-to-day lives while collectively contributing to a more sustainable future. The course leverages custom case studies, asynchronous activities with peers, as well as interactive content to educate the next generation of changemakers to engage with sustainability on campus and beyond.

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Driving Sustainability from the Board Room (DSB): Chart your company’s ESG path to long-term success, IMD - International Institute for Management Development

Project Summary

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors have become a global imperative, placing companies under increasing scrutiny. This heightened stakeholder focus means boards are confronted with new expectations. Yet few directors are equipped to govern ESG issues. IMD’s Driving Sustainability from the Boardroom is a highly experiential program that immerses participants in the complex and multifaceted realities of ESG. Part of IMD’s collaboration with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), it aims to help directors fulfil their role of influencing and steering the integration of sustainability into the company’s strategy.

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EkoPages, EkoPages

Project Summary

EkoPages is a tech platform that provides accessible, free and affordable SDGs education for children and individuals through literature, courses, art, projects and other fun activities. We create an eco-system for Child- SDGs writers to showcase their works and earn from it. We also champion the advocacy for the inclusion of SDGs education into the Child curriculum in Nigeria. With our SDG Literacy Drive, we educate children in marginalised communities on the importance of the SDGs and cause them to take sustainable and climate action.

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Enhancing human-plant connections in urban spaces using a collaborative, technology-enhanced solution: CampusFlora., The University of Sydney

Project Summary

Effective human-nature interactions are crucial to our survival. Gorillas, pandas, koalas, and honey bees garner attention for being indicators of correcting biodiversity damage. Plants that support these animals are rarely showcased and terms such as “plant blindness” have emerged to describe the inability to see plants. In urban areas where people would benefit the most from engaging with plants, and where the ratio of humans: greenspaces are at their highest, addressing ‘plant blindness’ becomes a critical challenge. To the betterment of humans, CampusFlora offers a technology-enhanced solution to address plant blindness, and effectively connect humans with their urban botanical environments.

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Eye in the Storm Simulation: Your Role in Climate Change Action, IE University

Project Summary

Eye In the Storm is a three-tier immersive experience into climate change mitigation and adaptation. When joining the face-to-face session, the student will have traveled through an emotional, somehow overwhelming, personal experience in the midst of a hurricane using VR goggles. They will have also worked, either individually or collectively, as one of five key decision-makers in the conversation for climate change through multimedia material, which should have prepared her/him/hir for a role-based class discussion on action against climate change.

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Generation Ocean: Join the race to protect our incredible blue planet, The Ocean Race

Project Summary

Generation Ocean is a secondary-school programme, launched in October 2022. It introduces the role that the ocean plays in sustaining life and highlights the threats that are jeopardising this vital system, along with solutions needed to protect our blue planet. It includes a booklet, featuring articles, stories, reflections and action points, and an educator’s guide with lesson activities and advice on leading learners through the development of projects designed to bring awareness and advocacy to issues of ocean health, and ocean rights. Generation Ocean is the first ever youth ocean literacy programme to include information on ocean and nature’s rights.

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Parivarthana: Transforming Waste to Wealth for a Greener Future Together Waste to Wealth, CHRIST (Deemed to be University)

Project Summary

In 1999, CHRIST (Deemed to be University) established Centre for Social Action (CSA). CSA has been actively contributing to the betterment of marginalized communities in urban and village areas, focusing on nurturing the development of women and children. CSA's mission envisioned Parivarthana, an innovative zero waste management initiative that crystallized in May 2008 with the core objective to cultivate an eco-friendly ecosystem by fervently advocating the principles of the 3Rs – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Through the “Waste to Wealth” project, Parivarthana has been engaged in waste collection and recycling, and ignited a profound sense of environmental consciousness in student community.

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Smart Forests, FACENS University

Project Summary

The Smart Forests Project brings together students from four higher education institutions, FACENS, Newton Paiva, CESUPA, and UNDB, from 3 different regions in Brazil, with the aim of developing intelligent and highly sustainable solutions to protect the forest and conserve its biodiversity, as well as to improve the quality of life for riverside communities in the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest, which are the biomes with the greatest biodiversity in Brazil. The students are selected, trained, and then divided into teams to work on replicable and easily accessible solutions to be implemented alongside the impacted communities.

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TASK - The Assessment of Sustainability Knowledge, SULITEST IMPACT

Project Summary

If the world and organizations need experts capable of solving specific problems in their field, given the stakes, their interconnections and the urgency, it is now essential to massify sustainability acculturation and ensure that a growing number of graduates and professionals have a sufficient understanding of sustainability and the ability to integrate it into their professional practices and decisions. By launching the first international certificate of sustainability knowledge (The Assessment of Sustainability Knowledge, TASK), Sulitest aims to create a lever for systemic change that will make the understanding of sustainability a common language for all.

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Taylor's Purpose Learning with Impact Labs: Accelerating Sustainability Education for Greater Social Impact, Taylor's University, Malaysia

Project Summary

Education at Taylor's is purpose-led and impact-driven, aligning students' purpose to make a positive impact to society, supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. To achieve this, Taylor's has established 13 IMPACT Labs (refer to URL1: Appendix 1-Taylor's Impact Labs) aligned to specific SDGs, to accelerate sustainability education integrated with research, to deliver practical solutions and policies through multidisciplinary teams of academics, practitioners, partners, beneficiaries and students. Through embedding IMPACT projects in the curriculum, Taylor's aims to nurture its students to become purposeful leaders committed to SDGs for life, and for Taylor’s to be the best university for the world.

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The Impact Lab, The University of Waikato

Project Summary

Ko te Tangata! Māori meaning: “For the people!” The Impact Lab is people and community focused using unique modes of higher education to develop future leaders using real life sustainability problems, solved by students, creating impact for the community and the planet. The Impact Lab is a multidisciplinary work-integrated learning (WIL) option where students apply their learning to wicked problems faced by partner organisations with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at their core. Teams of students develop sustainable solutions, creating community impact and enhancing their employability, incorporating mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) and tikanga (customary practices) in the process.

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The Journey From, Manav Rachna University

Project Summary

Managing waste remains a challenge that requires an efficient, sustainable, and socially supported system. The waste produced should be counted as a valuable resource! The project aims to instigate a shift in how waste is perceived and managed within the community. By promoting the idea that waste can be a valuable resource with economic benefits, the project aims at not only addressing environmental concerns but also advocating for sustainable practices that can positively impact the community's well-being. The holistic approach that targets individuals of all ages, including pre-schoolers, is crucial for achieving long-term sustainability.

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Winds of Change – a Climate Change and Sustainability Young Leaders’ Network from Chile and New Zealand, Latin America Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence (Latin America CAPE), Victoria University of Wellington

Project Summary

Winds of Change (WoC) has established a network of postgraduate students, academics and early-career climate change and sustainability professionals from Aotearoa New Zealand and Chile, equipping them with knowledge, tools and connections to co-operate on shared climate change challenges. Participants from a range of disciplines examine climate changes impacting our societies, and relevant public policy, business and science-based responses. Intercultural skills development and Indigenous perspectives are also featured. A south - south pipeline of leaders with the capacity to develop shared sustainable solutions is therefore being nurtured. The programme also aims to strengthen inter-university alliances between Chile and New Zealand.

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A Mutually Beneficial Partnership Ecosystem to Overcome Foreign Students’ Adversity of Career Development, Office of International Affairs, National Taiwan University

Project Summary

Due to the lack of interpersonal networks, language and cultural barriers, and ethnic stereotypes, foreign students and fresh graduates encounter enormous difficulty in finding internships and jobs. Their choices are often constrained to jobs in manual labor. Furthermore, their absence of local internship experience diminishes their competitiveness in the job market. Therefore, we developed three flagship programs (Master Talk, International Talent+ Series and International Mentorship Program) interwoven with our industrial partnerships to bolster foreign students’ career development. These programs serve as a mutually-beneficial ecosystem for our partners. Mentorship-style internship and strong administrative support are key factors in our solution.

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BALSAM Community Health Program, Khalifa University

Project Summary

BALSAM Community Health Education Program is an innovative experiential learning program that integrates social sciences, clinical experience, inter-professional collaboration and social determinants of health (SDH) to prepare socially accountable physicians. BALSAM began with the collaboration with Ambulatory Healthcare Services on home visits to vulnerable older adults to enhance medical students’ understanding of the impact of SDH on older adult health. Through reflective assignments, students raised attention to the social challenge of loneliness facing older adults. In response, BALSAM scaled its partnerships to include Authority of Social Contribution where we piloted a social visit, DOH to enhance medical student experience.

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Bridging Academia and Industry through Industry Project-based Experiential Learning (INDEX), Singapore Management University

Project Summary

In today's VUCA environment, organisations seek innovative solutions and insights from millennials and academia to address pressing business challenges. At the same time, academia and students must remain aware of industry's diverse realities to remain relevant. The SMU Industry Project-based Experiential Learning (INDEX) programme serves as a bridge between academia and industry. Through INDEX, students, faculty, and industry partners collaborate on real-world projects, offering solutions and perspectives to business, social, and emerging challenges faced by the industry. INDEX facilitates a dynamic exchange of knowledge and ideas, empowering the next generation to thrive in the ever-evolving professional landscape.

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CloudEARTHi: Empowering Education through Co-Creation and Dynamic Partnerships, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Project Summary

In response to the urgent challenges posed by climate change, sustainability, and the integration of big data into these domains, CloudEARTHi partnership offers a transformative model grounded in academia, business, and research collaboration. This innovative consortium, featuring diverse institutions from various cultural backgrounds, empowers students and academics to engage in impactful initiatives, fosters entrepreneurship and generates data-driven insights to address pressing global issues. The model's adaptability and inclusivity, combined with its vision for replication and scaling, position CloudEARTHi as a pioneering initiative that not only bridges knowledge gaps but also revolutionizes collaboration among diverse stakeholders to comprehensively address global challenges.

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Digital Egypt Builders Initiative: a partnership between the University of Ottawa and the Egyptian Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, University of Ottawa

Project Summary

This strategic partnership between the University of Ottawa and the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology trains the next generation of engineers in digital technologies. Each year, about 100 students selected through a national competition join uOttawa's remote Master of Engineering program in Electrical and Computer Engineering with tracks in AI and Data Science, IoT and Robotics, and Cybersecurity. The experiential component includes projects with Egyptian and international industries. To date, 340 new engineers were trained, including 145 women. This creates a powerful learning experience emphasizing integrative, experiential and critical thinking skills ensuring students gain top in-demand abilities.

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Fairfield Dolan MAS Experiential Learning Partnership Program, Fairfield University

Project Summary

The Dolan School of Business at Fairfield University started the Experiential Learning Partnership Program to connect graduate students in the MS in Marketing Analytics & Strategy (MAS) with the local business community through a multi-touch-point experiential learning partnership that has achieved success for both students and businesses. Students are trusted to provide analytically-driven strategic insights to solve marketing analytics problems using company-provided data. Students contribute to local businesses through classroom projects, internships or capstone projects with many collaborations leading to full-time employment. The local business community is thriving and students have 100% employment within 3 months of graduation.

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Future Leaders Series: A community learning partnership for employability, learnability, social impact and growth, Alba Graduate Business School The American College of Greece

Project Summary

This Community Learning Series is powered by a strong partnership aspiring to assist the youth of a local, less privileged community in Thrace (NE Greece) to develop learnability and employability. The partnership consists of: - Alba Executive Development, The American College of Greece - Democritus University of Thrace - John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation - Sunlight Energy Company The Program, aims to empower high school students with: - a learning agility mindset - leadership and self -leadership skills -a universal value set : teamwork, respect, fair play, courage, determination and perseverance -a lifelong attitude towards physical and mental wellness

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Google and Reichman Tech School, FORE - External & Executive Education, Reichman University

Project Summary

Google and Reichman Tech School providing high-tech education to a variety of Israelis, as well as those underrepresented in the industry, with the main purpose of promoting equal opportunity through quality education. The school was created out of a long-term commitment and national responsibility to provide the highest levels of knowledge and tools to the entire Israeli population, in all of its diversity, promote the Israeli economy and industry and help integrate untapped, high-quality and skilled human capital into the local tech job market.

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IE-UNSSC Partnership, IE School of Politics, Economics and Global Affairs - IE University

Project Summary

Thanks to an overarching agreement between our School with the United Nations System Staff College, our programs have a very high component of UN activities and content. Throughout their academic journey, students of International Relations have the unique opportunity to take courses designed and taught by UN staff. Said courses are intended to shape future global leaders in line with Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development Goals. In addition, the partnership includes extracurricular activities that range from Summer Research Programs, internships, career advise, a mentoring system between students and Junior Professional Officers of the UN system, speaker series, and workshops.

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Innovating From Within: The Creation of a New, Interdisciplinary Degree, Minerva Project

Project Summary

Minerva Project helped the University of Miami Design a new, interdisciplinary, undergraduate degree program in Innovation, Technology, and Design. The program is a novel entrant in undergraduate education, building skills at the intersection of engineering, business, design, and the humanities. It offers students a pathway to earning a 120 credit in 3 years, with a heavy focus on the “real world” application of skills via deep engagement with the private sector through 8 Design Challenges and 2 intensive internships during the program.

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Online Teaching Academy, EFMD

Project Summary

Established in 2019, the Online Teaching Academy (OTA) is delivered by the EFMD in partnership with Imperial College Business School and IE Business School with the aim of supporting Business School faculty worldwide to develop their understanding and capabilities in the field of online learning and teaching. Adopting a blended approach, the OTA offers a week of interactive online learning, followed by a three-day intensive residential at a leading European Business School. This engaging programme empowers educators to master their online teaching skills, staying ahead of the latest trends and innovations in business education.

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Partners for Prosperity – Future-Proofing today’s learners for tomorrow’s workforce., University of Waterloo

Project Summary

In 1957, University of Waterloo (UWaterloo) was co-founded by academia and industry, thereby introducing a new form of education in Canada – co-operative education (co-op). Students alternate four-month terms of academic study and related paid industry internships, leading to greater education access, academic relevance and talent benefits to industry. Today, annually, 25,000+ quality, paid internships are completed via partnerships with 9300+ organizations across 85+ countries. These partnerships enable program innovations that keep the program competitive and relevant. A 2019 Deloitte study found that UWaterloo’s co-op program contributed $567 million to Canada's GDP and $525 million in employer gains world-wide.

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Students as Co-Designers – Formalizing Student-Educator Partnerships in Curriculum and Pedagogy Co-Creation, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong

Project Summary

Universities strive to enable students to become full partners in teaching and learning (T&L). However, are educators prepared to relinquish control? Are students equipped to tackle this novel situation? We set in motion a move towards formalised student-educator partnership by inviting students as curriculum/pedagogy co-designers; support student-educator dialogue across differences in position and perspective; foster collaboration between students and educators to adopt new views of T&L; and serve as intermediaries of new student-educator relationships. In University of Hong Kong’s Medical Faculty, we successfully leveraged student-educator partnerships in co-designing curriculum/pedagogy, whilst partnering with community and field experts across health professional disciplines.

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VinUni-UIUC Smart Health Initiative: Building the Next Generation of Digital Health Workforce for the Society, VinUniversity

Project Summary

The VinUni-Illinois Smart Health Initiative was jointly established through a collaboration between VinUniversity (VinUni, Vietnam) and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, USA). We aim to tackle the major challenges in global public health and to make progress toward sustainable development goals by training the next generation of digital health workforce. Our vision is to ensure that everyone, regardless of their income level or geographic location, has access to the latest healthcare technologies, especially for early detection and prevention. The outcomes of our research will reduce the global burden of communicable diseases like Covid-19 and non-communicable diseases such as

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World-first Digital News Academy developed and delivered by Melbourne Business School, in collaboration with two of the most recognised names in media and technology, News Corp Australia and Google., Digital News Academy, Melbourne Business School

Project Summary

The award-winning Digital News Academy, a partnership between News Corp Australia and Google and delivered by Melbourne Business School, is a world’s first Academy to train and empower working journalists in digital skills. The Academy's nine-month program includes mobile journalism, multi-channel and vertical storytelling, statistics, verification, engaging with audiences and data journalism. Pls see URL Link 1 for an overview. Pls see File Upload 1 for Digital News Academy logo

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