IFC Conference: Live-blogs

Posted: April 1st, 2014 | Author: Michael Goldstein | | No Comments »

Hi there,

I’ll be posting my notes from sessions, here at the IFC conference in San Fran.

IFC’s goal:

This year’s theme, Rethinking Education, Shaping the Future, will highlight how technologies, applications, and innovations in education delivery and results measurement are giving us new tools for broadening access to education, a critical part of ending poverty and building shared economic prosperity.

Economic stagnation in the developed countries and high youth unemployment worldwide has contributed to a growing sense that traditional education models no longer create a pathway for the majority to reach their hopes and aspirations.

Students with access to high quality education often struggle to pay for it. Quality is often poor and higher education classes are often disconnected from the needs of employers. Too many students leave school in debt and with little prospect for a job.

Meanwhile, innovations like learning platforms, advances in tablet technology and mobile applications, creative models for linking education delivery to employment, and new ways to measure the value-added for students all hold the promise of driving scale and lowering the cost of education to the benefit of humanity.

The IFC Education Conference is a chance to rethink how we deliver education to youth and adults and give them the tools to meet the challenges of this century.