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In today's dynamic and evolving educational realm, select institutes emerge as exemplars of excellence, consistently pushing the boundaries of innovation and establishing new benchmarks for educational standards. These esteemed institutes have garnered widespread acclaim and reverence for their steadfast dedication to delivering exceptional learning experiences and shaping the trajectory of education. The most esteemed educational institutions to watch embody a profound commitment to fostering intellectual growth, cultivating critical thinking capabilities, and instilling a lifelong passion for learning. They prioritize a comprehensive educational approach that seamlessly integrates rigorous academics with personal development, creativity, and social consciousness. These institutions recognize that education transcends traditional classrooms, embracing experiential learning, community engagement, and a global outlook. What sets these institutions apart is their ability to anticipate and adapt to the ever-evolving demands of the future workforce. They embrace emerging technologies, digital tools, and innovative teaching methodologies to equip students with the indispensable skills and competencies required in the contemporary world. Moreover, these institutes foster a collaborative environment that nurtures independent thinking, problem-solving proficiency, and an entrepreneurial spirit among students. Featuring for this issue are the stories of such distinguished educational institutes and platforms. For the cover story read about- During a conversation with Marina Tognetti, the CEO of mYngle. Let's learn more about mYngle, the products offered by the business, and the CEO's career path. Please tell us about mYngle and the initial difficulties it had after being formed. In 45 distinct languages, mYngle provides specialised language training courses via video conferencing anytime, anywhere. Our one-on-one instruction is provided by native coaches who are highly qualified and is relevant to the learner's employment position. Students can take classes around-the-clock using our virtual classrooms. mYngle is the answer for time-crunched professionals who require language training to succeed in their worldwide business as well as for organisations looking for exceptional learning results and a clear, manageable learning approach to get the most out of their investment. Building a business from scratch is always challenging, building a tech start-up disrupting an industry as traditional as that of education is exponentially more challenging (especially more than 10 years ago, when we started). During a conversation with Davide Conforti, the CEO of OfCourseMe. Let's learn more about OfCourseMe, the products offered by the business, and the CEO's career path. Tell us about OfCourseMe's interesting services, any newest ones, and how they adapt to the passing of time and fashions. For our clients, we provide a full-service solution built around the ideas of content aggregation, search, recommendation, and curation. We want to help you with two problems: organising your digital training materials in one location, making them easily accessible, comparable, and well-organized; and, at the same time, preventing content overload for your learners by curating pertinent and contextual learning pathways to support your people in upskilling and reskilling themselves, helping to change their mindset and attitude towards personal development. The KTH Royal Institute of Technology's Centre for the Future of Places CFP was positioned at the nexus of architecture, urban planning, urban design, and urban studies. It served as an agora, a gathering place for top researchers, practitioners, and thinkers in urbanism who are pursuing solutions to the city's major urban development challenges, with a focus on public space systems. The value of public space in the planning and upkeep of cities is crucial to the future of urbanism as we face new social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental concerns. Rugved J.

FUTUR DUCATION magazine Future Education Magazine, PUBLISHER 1985, Henderson Rd, Columbus, Future Education Magazine Ohio, 43220 CREATIVE CONTENT EDITOR FOLLOW US ON: Joe Moore FOR EDITORIAL CONCERNS: PR & MARKETING COORDINATOR [email protected] Matt Hawkins FOR SALES & BRANDING ENQUIRIES: CREATIVE DESIGN HEAD [email protected] Bob Roberts FOR SUBSCRIPTION: SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER [email protected] Lisa Karen This list is NOT a ranking. The institutes listed in magazine MARKETING COORDINATOR serve different aspects of the market, making ranking John Green them in any order except revenue impossible and unfair. We try to bring a perfect platform for institutes and leaders BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE Olivia Miller to showcase their valued insights. GRAPHIC DESIGNER Copyrights © Future Education Magazine | 2023. All Rights Lara Zeller Reserved. The images and content included in this magazine should not be copied, transferred or DIGITAL CIRCULATION MANAGER Kathy Beck reproduced in any form or by any means, electronics, mechanical, photocopying, recording, otherwise, without proper permission from Future Education Magazine. Future Education Magazine solely owns all the reprint rights.

leaders in spotlight For the cover story read about- During a conversation with Marina Tognetti, the CEO of mYngle. Let's learn more about mYngle, the products offered by the business, and the CEO's career path. Please tell us about mYngle and the initial difficulties it had after being formed. In 45 distinct languages, mYngle provides specialised language training courses via video conferencing anytime, anywhere. Our one-on-one instruction is provided by native coaches who are highly qualified and is relevant to the learner's employment position. Students can take classes around-the-clock using our virtual classrooms. mYngle is the answer for time-crunched professionals who require language training to succeed in their worldwide business as well as for organisations looking for exceptional learning results and a clear, manageable learning approach to get the most out of their investment. Building a business from scratch is always challenging, building a tech start-up disrupting an industry as traditional as that of education is exponentially more challenging (especially more than 10 years ago, when we started). During a conversation with Davide Conforti, the CEO of OfCourseMe. Let's learn more about OfCourseMe, the products offered by the business, and the CEO's career path. Tell us about OfCourseMe's interesting services, any newest ones, and how they adapt to the passing of time and fashions. For our clients, we provide a full-service solution built around the ideas of content aggregation, search, recommendation, and curation. We want to help you with two problems: organising your digital training materials in one location, making them easily accessible, comparable, and well- organized; and, at the same time, preventing content overload for your learners by curating pertinent and contextual learning pathways to support your people in upskilling and reskilling themselves, helping to change their mindset and attitude towards personal development. The KTH Royal Institute of Technology's Centre for the Future of Places CFP was positioned at the nexus of architecture, urban planning, urban design, and urban studies. It served as an agora, a gathering place for top researchers, practitioners, and thinkers in urbanism who are pursuing solutions to the city's major urban development challenges, with a focus on public space systems. The value of public space in the planning and upkeep of cities is crucial to the future of urbanism as we face new social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental concerns.

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One of the most successful people are more open to taking same difficulties that prevented many methods of teaching and courses, attending workshops, and people from attending every other learning is through online participating in other learning physical class also prevented many education. Students have the luxury of opportunities that will not only from enrolling in languages. Now that attending these at the luxury of their advance their knowledge and advance these courses are accessible to you place and time, which also enables a their careers but also teach them online, you should bring out your inner more focused environment between the something they have always wanted to polyglot and enrol in these language two of them. Teachers are not only know but did not have the time to do classes through one of the top online more effective at imparting knowledge so. platforms. to students, but also in a more engaging method. Courses, workshops, and other events When it comes to finding a site to are crucial, but the most intriguing study languages, mYngle is among the Due to the popularity of online course—languages—has always drawn best. They are not only professionals at education and the resulting demand, the greatest attention. However, the offering these courses online, but it is 14 | 2023

COVER STORY their delivery and the way in which instruction is provided by native quality and flexibility in online they carry out these courses that have coaches who are highly qualified and is language instruction are setting new made them a highly regarded business relevant to the learner's employment benchmarks. And we have contributed in this field and cemented their position position. Students can take classes to that. as an industry leader. around-the-clock using our virtual classrooms. mYngle is the answer for What makes mYngle's services stand If one is unsure of what language they time-crunched professionals who out from the competition in the teach in, they can impart these require language training to succeed in market? Describe the services you languages in 45 different languages, their worldwide business as well as for offer. making them not only unique but also organisations looking for exceptional offering their excellence and learning results and a clear, One of our primary assets at mYngle is unmatched services in the market and manageable learning approach to get the obsession we have with customer among the customers. They have a the most out of their investment. happiness. We strive to make our team of expert coaches who provide service better every day. In order to do one-on-one lessons. Building a business from scratch is this, we constantly pay attention to always challenging, building a tech consumer feedback and adjust our During a conversation with Marina start-up disrupting an industry as services accordingly. We also take Tognetti, the CEO of mYngle. Let's traditional as that of education is advantage of new technology. learn more about mYngle, the products exponentially more challenging offered by the business, and the CEO's (especially more than 10 years ago, This is also evident in how we evaluate career path. when we started). ourselves internally and how we view our work. Using modified versions of Please tell us about mYngle and the We were among the first to offer one- NPS (Net Promoter Score), which initial difficulties it had after being on-one instruction in all languages states that only excellence counts, we formed. over the internet when we first got constantly evaluate our users' going. This required us to overcome a responses and attempt to alter as In 45 distinct languages, mYngle variety of obstacles, including those necessary. Our lessons typically provides specialised language training posed by a market that was still receive a 4.9/5.0 rating. And ten years courses via video conferencing developing and, in particular, consumer later, our first corporate client is still anytime, anywhere. Our one-on-one misconceptions about education. Now, with us. Results are self-evident. www.futureeducationmagazine.com | 15

We are at a fork in the road, and as For its contributions to online But customer-generated accolades are mYngle was one of the pioneers in live education, mYngle has received almost always the best. Our consumers online (language) training, we can take multiple honours, including the are incredibly happy. Our lessons advantage of our years of expertise and Accenture Innovation Award, European typically receive a 4.9/5.0 rating. And ability to successfully conduct online Ventures Summit Award, Benelux ten years later, our first corporate client training. Venture Summit Award, and more in is still with us. Results are self-evident. the future. As the creator and CEO of Real value must be added via mYngle, I also won various accolades, How are the mYngle team and work innovation, and the client should be at including 50 Most Inspiring Women in environment? the centre of everything. Being agile is the European Technology Sector, 50 critical to achieving innovation. Many Most Inspiring Women in the Dutch In mYngle, we encourage things have changed over the previous Technology Sector, Iconic Women experimentation and the acceptance of few years, including technology, Creating a Better World for All, and failure. A culture of fear of consumer needs, the economy, and now many more. repercussions cannot support COVID. By working hard to create sound concepts, work procedures, and a team with the ability and willingness to modify and adapt in accordance with our always changing environment, we have been able to solidify our place as one of the leaders in our industry. Tell us about your career path, including any high points you would like to mention. Though I am a computer entrepreneur and the creator of myngle.com, my passion for business developed later in my professional life. It was not particularly common for academics to be entrepreneurs when I had my university degree. As a result, I first established a lucrative career with major international corporations including Procter & Gamble, Philips, Sara Lee, The Boston Consulting Group, and eBay. I also obtained an MBA from INSEAD while living and working abroad. I first realised the internet has the power to upend entire industries and alter how we buy, sell, and interact when I was working as a consultant on a project about internet strategy. I had to participate in that! That was the impetus behind me founding an innovative firm called mYngle because I thought I could make a meaningful impact by putting all I had learnt up to that point in my career into practise. 16 | 2023

COVER STORY innovation. We work to create individuals who do more than just perform What is your opinion on the market's \"jobs.\" We look for entrepreneurs among our staff members—individuals competition and how it influences either who challenge the status quo and go beyond their comfort zones. If you try you or MYngle? 10 new things, some of them will fail, some of them will work out, and one of them will really stick. We're searching for \"the special one.\" The market for (language) training was already shifting from offline to online The importance of employees' well-being has increased as a result of even before COVID, with the change COVID's lockdowns, and motivating and helping them through this increasing in recent years. The trend was difficult time is nearly more crucial than production. To maintain a sense of accelerated by the isolationist, socially belonging and to let our employees know that we are all in this with, it's isolating, and remote working era, and about support, empowerment, and empathy. This calls for constant online education is now frequently the communication between team members and from the managers to keep only option for learning. everyone informed of events and promote a more virtualized culture. Many established offline players have COVER STORY scrambled to find a quick-fix, transferring their existing solutions online, in reaction to this rise in demand for online training. However, effective remote training necessitates a completely new set of skills and talents that are distinct from those needed for traditional classroom instruction. It goes beyond simply implementing a technology solution for the virtual classroom and transferring an instructor to a computer. To ensure a positive user experience, changes must be made to the teaching methods, material, interaction, etc. during the training sessions. I firmly believe that aligning with client needs rather than continually comparing to the competitors is the key to success. One of our pillars and greatest assets is our unwavering attention on our customers and their demands. This is especially crucial if your market, like online education, is in transition or evolution and the main obstacle is not rivalry but rather the naivete or lack of experience of the consumer. For the most part, education still operates in the same old-fashioned manner, giving students what is readily available rather than what they need. Nevertheless, \"One size does not fit all.\" We can meet each unique demand by comprehending the needs of the consumer and diversifying our offer in terms of frequency, teacher, and material. www.futureeducationmagazine.com | 17





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OF PERSONALIZED MENT IN CLASSROOM 1. Teach instructors how to evaluate pupils and tailor their experiences properly. Educating your instructors is the first step in developing a tailored learning program. Personalized learning may function well when instructors thoroughly grasp the process, techniques, evaluations, technology, and objectives involved. However, if instructors are not sufficiently educated, your personalised learning program will not perform well. So, before you begin, meet with your instructors to brainstorm ideas, research individualized learning approaches, and plan actions to execute this kind of program together. A discussion among educators taking place around a table. Then, put instructors through specialized training to integrate individualized learning into their daily work lives. This is exactly what the Verona Area School District in Wisconsin accomplished. It all began with tailored learning courses for teachers and school administrators. Teachers returned to their schools to continue discussions, and then experimented with individualized www.futureeducationmagazine.com | 21

learning workshops. Teachers were institutions, for example, encourage 4. Provide students with several therefore better equipped to develop pupils to utilize Google Docs for opportunity to demonstrate their and carry out a tailored learning plan simple collaboration. This also helps expertise. for pupils. instructors to keep track of their pupils' work-in-progress. While traditional test scores and essays It is critical that instructors learn how should never be neglected, providing to analyze each student's interests, 3. Allow students to participate in students with other avenues to talents, and shortcomings. They may their learning process. demonstrate their comprehension of then appropriately put them in their subjects encourages them to take own tailored learning process. Students who are given a voice in responsibility for their education. their learning experience acquire 2. Make use of educational important skills such as self- One teacher from the Middletown technology to build a customised advocacy. Students are more School District, for example, stated: learning environment. motivated to achieve their objectives when they have the opportunity to [Students] utilize a Google form, and Technology may be used to interact participate in goal setting in the the forms are instantly delivered to me, with and engage students, which is a classroom. The Middletown, New allowing me to monitor how they are wonderful approach to give York, school system, for example, self-assessing in real time. It offers individualized learning. introduced a customized learning them a feeling of responsibility while In fact, the role of technology may be approach that assisted pupils in also allowing me to know how they significant. According to educator focusing on their objectives. Even believe they performed... I utilize their Mary Ann Wolf, personalized learning lower grades were included in goal self-evaluation to guide my lesson and necessitates not just a change in school planning, and goal objects throughout to categorize them for math and ELA. architecture, but also the use of new the classroom encouraged children to technology. Personalized learning is keep to their objectives. 5. Build personalized learning facilitated by e-learning technologies, As a consequence, more pupils in this playlists which assist in dynamically tracking school district met their NWEA MAP and managing the learning growth objectives. Students may pick the sorts of learning requirements of all students... wherever activities that work best for them when and at any time, but which are not The proportion of pupils meeting instructors utilize playlists for self- accessible inside the four walls of the reading growth objectives increased guided learning activities. As a result, conventional classroom. from 44% to 65% after four years of each student is able to produce their utilizing a tailored learning program. best work every day. For example, adopting game-based In math, the number increased to learning methods enables students to 67%. So, how exactly does a customised study at their own speed while having learning playlist function? fun! One research found that playing a Personalizing information distribution math game in the classroom improved and engagement also benefits students First, instructors establish a rotation of standardized test performance by by allowing them to choose their own topic-related learning activities. 11.6%. Prodigy Math, an adaptive, learning environment. Individual learning activities, digital curriculum-aligned math game utilized material, group collaboration, or peer- by over a million instructors and 100 Give students the option of reading a to-peer activities might all be included. million students worldwide, is one short narrative or listening to an audio example. Prodigy covers all important version while reading. Allow students The choice of activity may be entirely arithmetic topics from first to eighth to choose whether they will take notes up to the learner, allowing them to grade. online, on paper, or vocally. choose whatever form of learning Find out more about Prodigy. activity works best for them. Allowing for this kind of personalised Other sorts of regularly used learning allows students to choose the Assign a point value to each activity technology may be effective in a procedure that best meets their and a minimum point requirement to customized classroom as well. Some requirements. ensure that every student is performing 22 | 2023

the proper amount of coaching.6677. popularity in recent years. Teachers observed 7. Allow students to study at Students complete the essential the following advantages after reorganizing their own speed by flipping learning while being permitted to do so their classrooms for more flexible seating teaching. in their own style and at their own arrangements: time. Since the early 2000s, flipped Discipline difficulties have decreased. teaching has been gaining Finally, instructors might establish Attendance and grade improvements popularity. Instead of having learning checkpoints at which students A more pleasant classroom environment lectures at school and activities at must show mastery of a topic before More comfort for pupils, resulting in better home, students view recorded proceeding to the next level. attentiveness (and, shockingly, fewer sleepers lectures at home and participate in in class!) activities together during class Allowing students to connect as peers Rotating stations is another example of time. or even finish work alone frees up individualized learning in a flexible This enables students to view instructors' time to focus with students classroom. Students can concentrate on the video lectures at their own speed, who need more education. correct things in the right location when they stopping or rewinding as needed. have particular stations that cater to their Students may also connect and ask 6. Make the classroom adaptable. individual learning playlists. This promotes questions with their peers and teamwork and allows instructors to work with professors through online chats. For good reason, flexible seating smaller groups for focused education. configurations have grown in www.futureeducationmagazine.com | 23





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KTH ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Inspiring Students to be the Best The idea of urban planning and space in the planning and upkeep of designing contributes to the cities is crucial to the future of growth of cities in a number of urbanism as we face new social, ways. Cities that have been properly economic, political, cultural, and planned and designed provide more environmental concerns. room for population growth while also managing all resources to ensure that The CFP's constant goal is to draw everyone living there is content. These attention to the importance of public are some of the most fundamental space and the public realm in urbanism components of urban design and and urbanisation, notably the change in planning. With the speed at which focus from objects to places. We have technology is developing, there is still investigated the connections between much that has to be investigated and urban form, human behaviour, urban put into practise in the field of urban society, social life, sustainable design. urbanism, and housing in the wake of emerging global transformations via About the Institute the multidisciplinary lens of public space as part of that goal. The KTH Royal Institute of Additionally, KTH Royal Institute of Technology's Centre for the Future of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, is Places CFP was positioned at the nexus the \"MIT of the NORTH\" and the of architecture, urban planning, urban mother institution and hub of CFP. design, and urban studies. It served as an agora, a gathering place for top Since its founding in 1827, KTH Royal researchers, practitioners, and thinkers Institute of Technology has grown to in urbanism who are pursuing solutions become one of Europe's top to the city's major urban development technological universities and a challenges, with a focus on public significant hub for the advancement of space systems. The value of public knowledge. KTH Royal Institute of www.futureeducationmagazine.com | 27

Technology, Sweden's largest institution “Cities are an amazing place with for technical education and research, limitless opportunities, problems, brings together faculty, staff, and challenges and source of ideas.” students from around the globe. KTH Royal Institute of Technology is The Centre and Dr Tigran have won collaborating with industry and society more than 15 awards for management to develop sustainable solutions to some and leadership from organisations like of humanity's most pressing problems, CEO Europe Magazine, Finance including climate change, future energy Monthly CEO Awards, World's needs, urbanisation, and ageing Leaders Magazine Awards, ACQ populations' quality of life. Global Awards, CV Magazine Award, CIO Views Award, CIO Times Award, Research and instruction at the KKTH Insight Success Award, Silicone Royal Institute of Technology span the Review, and others. fields of science, technology in all its forms, architecture, industrial “In my work in Academia over the last is a global network hub and economics, social planning, history, and 25 years, I span and cover one of the clearinghouse for research on public philosophy. The university's education largest urbanism networks in the spaces. He currently holds the produces a new generation of engineers, world.” positions of Guest Research Scholar at architects, and teachers, and the the Massachusetts Institute of inventive environment encourages About Dr. Tigran- Technology (MIT) in Cambridge in the adaptable solutions. Norman B. Leventhal Centre for Dr. Tigran is a multi-degreed architect Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) and Last but not least, their top-notch with advanced degrees in regional Associate Professor of Urban Planning connections, affiliations, and research planning, environmental science, and + Urban Design at the KTH Royal collaborations contributed to this urban planning and design. He has Institute of Technology in Stockholm success and will be further strengthened produced 10 books, over 100 research in the School of Architecture and the by their planned collaborations with articles, and has taught aspiring Built Environment. LCAU at MIT in Boston and UCL corporate project managers at the Bartlett in London. master's level for more than ten years. Key Achievements of Dr. Tigran's Additionally, he has created three Journey- “We continue to develop the master's degree programmes and taught cooperation with UN Habitat and our more than 35 graduate and post- Leadership is undoubtedly a other university partners such as TU graduate level courses. Dr. Tigran is challenging process of self- Wien, LSE London, University of the recipient of three post-doctoral transformation undertaken by a person Chicago, University of Miami and ETH fellowships from the Massachusetts tasked with directing others towards Zürich.” Institute of Technology in Cambridge, the accomplishment of a certain Massachusetts, University of Michigan corporate goal. Dr. Tigran's experience One of the main things the university in Ann Arbour, and Berkeley, running a research centre for five years will be concentrating on in the California. and a lab for five years prior to that, as upcoming years is strengthening the well as serving as the director of three links between research and practise by Atheneum Scholars Press, Routledge, educational programmes, has greatly encouraging researchers to collaborate Rowman & Littlefield, Rizzoli, and aided in her understanding of some of and execute their research findings Edward Elgar will all publish his these concepts. She has also taught realistically. Dr. Tigran is looking upcoming books. He has also served as project and strategic management, forward to starting and possibly running the previous director of the Civitas project leadership, and related topics a second research lab in his career, A Athenaeum Laboratory (CAL) and the for more than eight years. City Research Lab dubbed HAL, after International Centre for the Future of the work at the centre where they have Places (CFP) at the KTH Royal Getting things done with the project built the best urbanism network in the Institute of Technology in Stockholm. and research team you have in place is world and the best clearing house on public spaces and urban areas research. Dr. Tigran served as the center's director from 2016 to 2021. The centre 28 | 2023

just one aspect of a leader's job; the team The major problem is that cities are resilient, and long-lasting. Universities also needs to be put together in the best becoming more complicated, and are better equipped than ever to give way possible. Competence, equality, and problems are increasing every day as a students an easily accessible online professionalism are important result of numerous convergent crises version of their courses in the network considerations, and it takes skill to that demand solutions from new ideas, society, city of bits, and new digital understand where each person can technologies, and methodologies. The age. contribute most. Research Lab - HAL The Civitas Laboratory, which will take over for Innovation is the Key- “At the outset of my leadership role, I the Centre for the Future of Places started to expand and build new networks CFP in the coming period, will \"The Centre for the Future of Places and brake barriers of what is possible and attempt to respond to these inquiries. was founded to advance sustainable impossible.” urban development by reorienting the Tackling New Challenges of the urban discourse from objects to places In this case, a strong internal bond with Pandemic- in order to advance healthy and livable the team and employees is essential and cities, within the disciplines of urban necessary for the long-term viability of To ensure that their teams survive the planning and urban design. Innovation the business. Gaining their respect, pandemic stronger, leaders must use is the core value, fundus, and keystone obtaining their trust, making friends with their own emotional intelligence given of the new Lab as it was of the Centre them, and receiving their honest feedback the severe demand on both physical for the Future of Places. In order to are all essential. and mental health. Students study, create a more equitable, sustainable, socialise, and live close to one another and prosperous society, the Lab and Finally, as advice to others, it is important on university and college campuses the centre that came before it to be able to learn from the past and from like those at MIT, Dr. Tigran's second envisioned a networked community of mistakes. Other important skills include place of employment, and KTH Royal leaders actively collaborating across having strong communication skills and Institute of Technology, which is industries, frontiers, and disciplines. developing lasting relationships on all MIT's partner institution. Additionally, levels; listening, understanding, and they serve as the centre for social and The Center's mission was to define, acting; optimism and risk-taking to a cultural hubs where students from categorise, and establish the public certain extent; reading people and different parts of the world come space as a separate academic study adapting them to necessary tasks in the together and where social and human topic by using a comprehensive organisation; anticipating problems and capital is created. strategy. In other words, the centre thinking outside the box; and removing organised knowledge from all fields threats and psychopathic personalities. They had to adjust to teaching, that are concerned with public space, studying, and networking online as a including urban planning, urban The Future Looks Interesting result of the coronavirus's rapid spread design, environmental psychology, and the unanticipated effects it has had urban sociology, architecture, urban The institute will be concentrating more on society. Most importantly, they had economics, human geography, and on either following the path they have set to take all reasonable precautions to others. thus far or steering the ship into another, protect the lives of their teachers and slightly less (un)charted destination after students. Making the most of online In order to combine the knowledge the success of a five-year sequel of the learning and teaching, creating from the various disciplinary silos and centre. The vital issue of humanising systems that are both reliable and link the experts within them, the cities within emerging smart and new adaptable, gathering information, and emphasis on public space served as a experimental urbanisms, as well as issues using best practises have all been cross-disciplinary innovation of livability, comfort, health, aesthetics of hallmarks of this trying time, along framework. This helped to create a cities, and open public spaces, will be in with excellent collegiality and holistic understanding of the city that the forefront during the next two years, it camaraderie throughout. serves as the foundation for practical is certain. and effective action, which will The higher education sector has necessitate extensive international On the micro, meso, and macro levels previously survived pandemics and cooperation. 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8 BENEFITS OF PROJECT-BASED LEARNING Here are 8 Benefits of Project-Based 2. Encourages Analytical and mistakes when carrying out certain Learning; Critical Thinking cognitive responsibilities. deliberation 1. Develops General Skills for Future 3. Contributes to Improved Students are required to engage in Understanding of Concepts One of the advantages of using a critical and analytical thinking while project-based approach to education is they are learning via project-based Students are able to learn more that it teaches pupils particular skills activities. A student who is prepared conceptually when they are given tasks to that prepare them for the future. for the world of the future must have work on while they are studying. Students gain the ability to manage and strong critical and analytical thinking Learning on a conceptual level helps solve challenges, think creatively and skills. learners solidify their understanding of outside the box, and learn to concepts and conceptions, as well as collaborate effectively via the use of The capacity to think logically in order connect those concepts to real-world project-based learning. These are some to arrive at a probable reasonable examples. of the job abilities that will be conclusion is what we mean when we It provides a richer knowledge and necessary in the future, as stated in an talk about critical thinking. It permits interpretation of a certain subject matter. essay that was published in the World you to make rational judgments that Conceptual learning allows for the Economic Forum 2020 publication. are based on the available evidence. It generation of concepts that contribute to reduces the likelihood of making the complicated problem-solving process. 32 | 2023

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4. Team Building project-based learning, but they also Delegating tasks in this manner helps learn how to manage their time more to prevent unnecessary duplication of Students learn to work together as a efficiently within a group setting. work, which in turn leads to efficient team via this programmatically based Let's look at an example to further management of time. learning. Learning the fundamentals of illustrate what I mean by this. It is working with others on a team leads to possible to assign each member of a 7. Handling of Tools and Machinery the development of a number of other team a specific part of the project to skills as well. Students develop work on and then present it in front of One other benefit of doing schoolwork abilities necessary for leadership by the rest of the class. This occurs when in the form of projects is that pupils working together in groups. Students a group is tasked with finishing and may get experience operating high-tech are encouraged to work together in presenting something in front of the equipment and machines at a much order to achieve a shared objective via class. younger age if they do so. The the practice of teamwork. Students experiences that the pupils have at this acquire the ability to be less self- centered and, as a result, become more successful team members while working in groups. It is common knowledge that students get an understanding of the value of cooperation via participation in project-based learning. Now, the opposite is also true in this case. As other words, when it comes to presenting work for a Project, working in a team is almost always preferable. For instance, if a student is required to present a project to the class, it is in their best interest to work with their classmates on the assignment rather than working on it alone. This is due to the fact that a collaborative endeavor incorporates the thoughts of numerous members of the team as opposed to just one individual's notion. 5. Development of Communication Skills Students are given the chance to practice and improve in their writing, public speaking, and effective communication in a variety of different methods, one of which is via the completion of a project-based learning activity that culminates in a presentation to the class or group. They also keep these talents sharp at the micro and interpersonal levels for the whole of their initiatives. 6. Time management abilities Students not only learn how to work together more successfully, which is one of the several advantages of 34 | 2023

age will serve them well in the years to uncommon for many hours of lectures to activity-based learning, critical and come. Under the instruction and and tasks to seem like they drag on analytical thinking are also essential watchful eye of a trained expert, forever and are uninteresting. Students components of this form of education, students work with potentially are required to remain seated at their as was just shown. It is important for dangerous materials such as sharp desks and listen to the instructor's students to make the connection implements and electrical apparatus. lectures in a conventional classroom between their lesson and the exercise. They get the self-assurance to handle setting; however, students who equipment at a much younger age as a participate in class activities are given result of this. the opportunity to move freely about the room. This is an opportunity that 8. Provides a Change from the would not otherwise be available to Routine them. However, \"learning by doing\" helps students break out of this rut by The routine of education is broken up providing them with activities and by learning based on projects. It's very questions to ponder about. In addition www.futureeducationmagazine.com | 35

OfCourseMe Changing Culture Davide Conforti Through Continuous CEO Learning Francesco Carante One of the major businesses transforming corporate learning Co-Founder & COO culture and behaviour is OfCourseMe. They are one of the few and best businesses offering services that improve content organisation, aggregation, etc. in large corporations. These services not only help to improve the learning environment but also boost employee productivity and performance, creating a work environment that is more focused on learning and fostering the development of both employees' personal and professional lives. All of these elements have a direct impact on the business' overall performance and promote holistic growth and development. In addition to being happy with their services, their clients also give them the credit they deserve for helping to accelerate their learning curve, improve the way they approach their work, and broaden their knowledge and skill sets. During a conversation with Davide Conforti, the CEO of OfCourseMe. Let's learn more about OfCourseMe, the products offered by the business, and the CEO's career path. Please tell us about OfCourseMe and the early difficulties the business faced. Learning culture and behaviour are changing as a result of OfCourseMe. We collaborate with learning and development managers to alter the way their teams learn, whether it's through upskilling, retraining, or 36 | 2023

simply adopting a fresh viewpoint. In budgets because it combines content with no outside investment. order to help them create a culture of curation, people intelligence, and lifelong learning in their staff members marketing support as a service. Ÿ closing 6-digit deals with some of and enable their success, we the biggest businesses in Europe, collaborate with them to provide Establishing a learning culture involves who we are happy to call our curated learning solutions for their daily habits and routines, which are flagship clients. team. based on interactions with peers and management. Because of this, we Ÿ 20 extraordinary individuals that To do this, we develop a more flexible continually make investments in the share the same passion, values, and and effective learning environment that social components of learning, from aspirations make up the growing enables all employees—regardless of exchanging comments and opinions on team. their age, aptitude, or skill—to realise content to informing users of their their full potential through peers' pertinent interactions with it. We How are the OfCourseMe team and individualised, on-demand, self- are simultaneously enhancing our work environment? training courses. In a nutshell, the search, ranking, and recommendation purpose of OfCourseMe is to develop features to give users results that are At OfCourseMe, Francesco and I set lifelong learners. increasingly relevant and personalised. out with the idea of creating a Because learning culture is about workplace culture based on the same Tell us about OfCourseMe's people, we think in technology that principles that our solution promotes: interesting services, any newest ones, benefits people. openness, responsibility, honesty, and how they adapt to the passing of curiosity, and empathy. OfCourseMe time and fashions. As upskilling and reskilling need to be never had a physical headquarters; grounded in skills and continual instead, we started out working from For our clients, we provide a full- performance appraisal/feedback loops home long before the pandemic drove service solution built around the ideas to identify gaps, mapping contents vs. most people inside. You can only of content aggregation, search, skill sets is a set of characteristics in accomplish this if both your people and recommendation, and curation. We great demand right now. Moreover, we others believe in you. The appropriate want to help you with two problems: are close to organising our first million culture must be established, reinforced, organising your digital training content sources in OfCourseMe, which and the appropriate procedures must be materials in one location, making them will enable us to offer educational implemented. easily accessible, comparable, and materials in over 20 languages, 160 well-organized; and, at the same time, topics, innumerable formats, and - of The greatest isn't necessarily brought preventing content overload for your course - talents. We do have a fairly out by competition, but rather by learners by curating pertinent and organised 12- to 18-month product having high standards for both contextual learning pathways to roadmap, which we iterate and update ourselves and our clients and always support your people in upskilling and every three months utilising finding a way to meet or exceed them. reskilling themselves, helping to behavioural data analysis, R&D, and change their mindset and attitude user feedback in an Agile framework. towards personal development. Please share your career history with In terms of the industry, we believe us, including any high points you OfCourseMe offers distinct skills when would like to mention. it comes to providing solutions that seamlessly fit into already-existing I have a degree in industrial learning ecosystems; we also specialise engineering from Milano, six years of at content scraping and tagging, consulting experience, and five years content curation, marketing, and of experience as a BI director and people analytics. Our value proposition CFO. then came the choice to start is distinctive and incredibly appealing from scratch in early 2017. to learning managers who are struggling to deliver learning paths at Ÿ establishing a lucrative and quickly scale with nimble teams and shrinking expanding business from scratch www.futureeducationmagazine.com | 37





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