#78 - Educating for 21st Century Skills

#78 - Educating for 21st Century Skills

Part Two of the ASU GSV Summit Series on The Edtech Podcast

Welcome everyone to this second episode from the ASU GSV Summit series on The Edtech Podcast. This week we hear about 21st century skills touching upon accreditation, funding, project based learning, higher education and alternative education, such as bootcamps, along the way! 

Don't forget to check out the reference links below, for more follow up videos, podcasts and reading on this topic. 

What's in this episode?

• • Message from sponsors Qatar Foundation International
  • Sophie Bailey introduction - latest events and news 
  • Michal Moe: The GSV Partner perspective on 21st century skills development
  • LIVE podcast recording from ASU GSV Summit featuring:
  • Richard F. O’Donnell, Founder & CEO, Skills Fund, USA
  • Pierre Dubuc, Co-Founder, Open Classroom
  • Tom Andriola, CIO and Vice President, University of California
  • Sophie Bailey outro - what's next in the series? 

Sample quotes: 

I started when I was 11. I learnt how to code when I was 10.

Right now: We have student from Burma, living in Japan, enrolled in an English Curriculum leading to a French degree.

We have a very strong growth from Africa right now, but especially from Morocco

He is really willing to invest a lot in training and young people right now - on Macron

Imagine that in India, you have to build 2 Universities of 25k students every week just to catch up with the demographics

References: 

• • QFI: http://www.qfi.org/
  • Michael Moe: http://gsvcap.com/people/michael-moe/
  • ASU GSV Summit: https://www.asugsvsummit.com/ 
  • GSV Partners: http://gsvcap.com/ 
  • Richard F. O’Donnell, Founder & CEO, Skills Fund, USA 
  • https://twitter.com/RFO1
  • https://twitter.com/Skills_Fund
  • Pierre Dubuc, Co-Founder, Open Classroom:
  • https://twitter.com/p_dubuc 
  • https://twitter.com/OpenClassrooms 
  • https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron
  • https://twitter.com/LaFrenchTech
  • https://twitter.com/CES
  • https://twitter.com/sjehay
  • https://twitter.com/burgesg 
  • Tom Andriola, CIO and Vice President, University of California
  • https://twitter.com/Andriola_UC
  • https://twitter.com/UofCalifornia
  • The Council on Integrity in Results Reporting: https://cirr.org/
  • Andreas Schleicher - Twitter
  • Episode #65 - SXSWedu Special with David Bray, Chief Information Officer, Federal Communications Commission
  • LTHE Chat
  • #LTHEchat
  • @LTHEchat 

Like this episode? Check out these related videos and podcasts:

Educating The Next Generation of Talent for the Next Generation of Jobs - Gerald Chertavian, Founder and CEO, Year Up

Andrew Ng, Co-Chairman and Co-Founder of Coursera; and an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University

ASU GSV Summit podcast on 'open universities

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Thank you to this week's sponsors:

The ASU GSV Summit annually brings together the most impactful people from diverse constituencies – entrepreneurs, business leaders, K12 and higher ed leaders, policymakers, leading tech companies, and philanthropists – to create partnerships, explore solutions, and shape the future of learning and talent innovation.

Go to: https://www.asugsvsummit.com/  

Qatar Foundation International (QFI), LLC, is a U.S.-based member of Qatar Foundation (QF). QFI operates as both a grant-making organization, and a convener of thought leaders on issues related to global and international education, open education and education technologies as they intersect with the three core QFI programmatic areas: Arabic language and Arab culture, STE{A}M (STEM plus the Arts), and Youth Engagement.   Go to: http://www.qfi.org/

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