From my post on PolicyMic: Online education ... cannot exist in a vacuum. Increasingly available and high-quality content [has] inspired a host of organizations to experiment with ways to wrap an educational experience [around] digital content. Read more here.
The Case for Catalytic Funding of Latino-focused Startups
[Note: If you're interested in the updated and much-improved version of this pitch--especially if you're a Latino-focused entrepreneur--my gmail address is mark.c.hand.] This year, the Saïd Business School at Oxford launches GOTO, an ambitious project to focus the university’s attention on a particular topic of global import. The first topic is demography, with a focus on …
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Demographics in North America: Not just US
This year, the Saïd Business School at Oxford launches GOTO, an ambitious new project to focus the university's attention on a particular topic of global import. The first topic is demography, with a focus on aging. In my first post, I argued that discussing the effects of aging demands discussing immigration, too. In my second, …
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Migration: Are the brakes of ageing about to slip?
This year, the Saïd Business School at Oxford University launches GOTO, an ambitious new project to focus attention on a particular topic of global import. The first topic is demography. For my first submission to the GOTO platform, I argue that a discussion of aging is incomplete if it leaves out the question of migration: …
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Social Entrepreneurship 101
In 2013 I co-authored a post on the Skoll Centre blog called "Social Entrepreneurship 101. That blog linkrotted in 2020, so here's the full text, thanks to the Wayback Machine. “Social Entrepreneurship,” according to one definition, “strives to solve social problems at a systemic level using innovative, sustainable, scalable, inclusive and measurable approaches.” What? In the 1980s, …
Oxford Week Zero: Brain Fuel
As first impressions go, Oxford does a bang-up job.The most impressive bit? The breadth and depth of conversation. Topics from the week: Transitional justice and Brazil's Truth Commission, investigating crimes committed during the military dictatorship of the 60s-80s Twitter's efforts to establish a European sales office and their struggle to build a functional search tool …
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