Education: Making a Difference in 2012

January Apple reinvents textbooks with iBooks 2 for iPad Tennis Star launches UNICEF's School for Asia Initiative Youth jobs crisis pushes EU to address ‘skills mismatch’ February Gordon Brown calls for Global Education Fund MIT launches free online 'fully automated' course Udacity, billed as the “21st-century university,” launches its first two courses to bring accessible, engaging and effective higher education to the world. World Youth Report puts focus on skills March Launch of 'Crowdsourcing Girls’ Education' Initiative in Tanzania and Ethiopia Oxford University publishes its first digital, free textbook April 'TED-ED' Initaitive gives teachers the keys to a flipped classroom May June July August September October November December http://bit.ly/AkVoPc http://bit.ly/z9ZzNJ http://bbc.in/yoFkNY http://bit.ly/y3dB0K http://bit.ly/vgJ7Y2 http://bit.ly/w3HJng http://bit.ly/TEL3y4 http://bit.ly/Hb6CCn http://tcrn.ch/I8fFnB Nepal, South Africa, Venezuela receive education prize for reaching and teaching marginalized http://bit.ly/JcjRFG Harvard and MIT team up to educate a billion people online http://bit.ly/YRRrsa Young Social Innovators in Ireland awarded for efforts to bring positive change http://bit.ly/VmjF7Q RPI Red Profesores Innovadores” a social network for innovative teachers in Latin America launches new open curses for 39000 teachers (source: WISE Awards Project Rep. Ana Raad) Vietnam adopts Law on Higher Education to help the country move toward a knowledge-based economy http://bit.ly/MrnxiT Lego Education launches BuildToExpress, a new approach to learning with Lego bricks http://bit.ly/NBw6Lc Launch of Team Culture 2012 to highlight the impact of culture on jobs, growth, innovation and creativity http://bit.ly/M2zQSo OECD: China and India to produce 40% of world’s university graduates by 2020 http://bit.ly/Lcz1Y9 New Zealand College experiments with Bring Your Own Tech http://bit.ly/NSTjKS President Obama proposes $1-Billion program for elite STEM teachers http://bit.ly/LCCvId Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) launches initiative to highlight the importance of civic engagement for students http://bit.ly/QWO2Df 2012 London Olympics: Focus on Education & Sports http://bit.ly/QkQfun Google releases open-source online-education software http://bit.ly/RL5ZX9 2012 WISE Awards Announced http://bit.ly/KHZu4h http://bit.ly/w0DzGS A Stanford experiment that could change education forever 100 literacy classes for girls and women open in Senegal http://bit.ly/KHoHps Leaders of international academic community commit to Higher Education Sustainability Initiative at Rio+20 http://bit.ly/UJZTXe UC Berkeley joins edX to offer massively open online courses http://bit.ly/TJGPsm Reinventing education with Ed Zed Omega http://bit.ly/SjoXEr WISE Haiti Task Force and partner FOKAL support seven innovative projects in Haiti http://bit.ly/RLliyY Could $10 robots change Robotics education? http://bit.ly/PhYqBJ http://bit.ly/VR4Y2y United Nations Secretary-General BAN Ki-moon launches Education First Verizon Foundation launches STEM education program through mobile technology http://vz.to/Thcm61 WISE welcomes 30 outstanding young to join the Learners’ Voice Community http://bit.ly/VmlYYI WISE Awards winning project 'The Citizens Foundation' (TCF) launches pilot program for kindergarten assistants in Pakistan (Source: TCF) One Laptop Per Child in remote Ethiopian village declared a rollicking success BRAC Education Programme launches boat schools in most disadvantaged low lying areas of Bangladesh http://on.mash.to/PCy97o http://bit.ly/1f7IXU 2012 WISE Summit http://bit.ly/TT0fds Madhav Chavan, co-founder and CEO of Pratham, awarded the 2012 WISE Prize for Education http://bit.ly/TXa76o US universities launch higher education initiative for Burma http://bit.ly/RTPsxX Her Highness Sheikha Moza launches Educate A Child for world’s hardest-to-reach children http://bit.ly/W6Xt24 Mexico’s president proposes sweeping education reform http://wapo.st/RYzaaC Innovation in education: teachers talk about the future http://bit.ly/X0WMrO Malala Fund for Education set up http://bit.ly/X11FB7 Leading education connectors launch Edchat Radio http://bit.ly/TKI1Z8