World Bank EduTech Podcast

Today, you're listening to a conversation between Dr. Staneala Beckley, Chair of the Sierra Leone Teaching Service Commission and World Bank Education Specialist Himdat Bayusuf with today's host, World Bank EdTech Consultant Sharon Zacharia . They discuss how educational radio has been used in Sierra Leone to support continuity of teaching and learning, during COVID-19 and lessons l...

Today, you are listening to a conversation between Yves Punie, Senior Scientist and Deputy Head of Unit at the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Seville, Unit Human Capital and Employment, and Cristobal Cobo, Senior Education Technology Specialist at the World Bank, about the potential of digital technologies to innovate education and training practices in the European context. This is...

Today, you are listening to a conversation between Yves Punie, Senior Scientist and Deputy Head of Unit at the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Seville, Unit Human Capital and Employment, and Cristobal Cobo, Senior Education Technology Specialist at the World Bank, about the potential of digital technologies to innovate education and training practices and improve access to lifelong le...

The World Bank is teaming up with HundrED and the Global Partnership for Education to launch a call for solutions from around the world to support teachers' continuous professional development in an ever-changing classroom. On this episode, World Bank Senior Education Specialist Cristóbal Cobo and World Bank Senior Education Specialist Manal Quota speak with Danny Gilliland , Head of Growth at Hun...

Today, World Bank's EdTech team member, Sharon Zacharia speaks with Abdal Mufti (Head of Research and Policy at Punjab School Education Department, Government of Punjab-Pakistan). They discuss lessons from deploying Punjab's province-wide education TV program called Taleem Ghar including how leveraging stakeholders and a phased roll out approach can speed up implementation to just 3 weeks.  T...

Today, you are listening to a conversation between Valtencir Mendes, Senior Programme Lead in the Division for Policies and Lifelong Learning Systems in the Education Sector at UNESCO and Cristobal Cobo, Senior Education Technology Specialist at the World Bank about the Global Education Coalition , a public-private partnership for education bringing together more than 140 members from the UN famil...

Today, you are listening to a conversation between World Bank EdTech colleagues Michael Trucano and Alex Twinomugisha as they reflect on how educators have adapted to the coronavirus crisis in the past seven months, moderated by World Bank team member Hallie Applebaum. Read Continuity Stories and watch webinars at  https://oecdedutoday.com/coronavirus  and https://www.worldbank...

Today, you are listening to a conversation between Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin, Senior Analyst at the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI), and Cristóbal Cobo, World Bank Senior Education Specialist, about our joint initiative between World Bank Group Education Global Practice , the OECD Directorate for Education and Skills , the Harvard Global Education Innovation Initiative ,...

Today, you are listening to a conversation with Ollie Bray, Director of Global Programmes at the LEGO Foundation, and Victoria Levin, Senior Economist in the Education Global Practice at the World Bank and Co-Lead of the Skills Global Solutions Group, interviewed by World Bank Global Lead for Technology Innovation in Education Robert Hawkins. The LEGO Foundation  aims to build a future in whi...

Today, we're speaking with Anthony Bloome, Executive Director of the Mobiles for Education Alliance , about strengthening edtech ecosystems in low-resource contexts, interviewed by Work Bank team member Robert Hawkins. -- Anthony Bloome is the Executive Director of the Mobiles for Education Alliance , a non-profit focused on strengthening edtech ecosystems, particularly in low-resource country con...

Today, we're continuing our conversation from last week with Steve Song and Mike Jensen about connectivity policy and technology adoption strategies to broaden internet access in developing countries, interviewed by Work Bank team members Robert Hawkins and Alex Twinomugisha.   Steve Song is a researcher, entrepreneur, and advocate for cheaper, more pervasive access to communication infrastru...

Today we're speaking with Steve Song and Mike Jensen about connectivity policy and technology adoption strategies to broaden internet access in developing countries, interviewed by Work Bank team members Robert Hawkins and Alex Twinomugisha. Steve Song is a researcher, entrepreneur, and advocate for cheaper, more pervasive access to communication infrastructure. He is currently a Fellow at the Moz...

The World Bank's EduTech team is speaking with educators around the world to learn how they are innovating to support continued teaching and learning during COVID-19. In this episode, World Bank's EduTech team member Sharon Zacharia speaks with Umbreen Arif , Technical Advisor and Umair Javed,  Syed Umair Javed , (then) Joint Secretary of Education of  Pakistan's Ministry of Federal Educ...

The World Bank's EduTech team is speaking with educators around the world to see how they are innovating to support continued teaching and learning during COVID-19. In another episode in this series, World Bank's EduTech team member Sharon Zacharia (https://blogs.worldbank.org/team/sharon-zacharia) speaks with Sesame Workshop (https://www.sesameworkshop.org) Vice President of International Project...

The World Bank's EduTech team is speaking with educators around the world to see how they are innovating and supporting continued teaching and learning during COVID-19. In this episode, World Bank's EduTech team member Sharon Zacharia speaks with Ubongo ( https://www.ubongo.org ) Co-founder and CEO Nisha Ligon and Ubongo Head of Education Cliodhna Ryan about what we can learn from Ubongo's work in...

On August 7, World Bank Global Lead for Technology and Innovation in Education Michael Trucano spoke with World Bank Global Co-Lead for Technology and Innovation in Education Robert Hawkins about Robert's experience over the past 25 years working to improve teaching and learning in the classroom and education systems and management. -- Michael Trucano is the World Bank's Senior Education and Techn...

On July 31, World Bank Global Lead for Technology and Innovation in Education Robert Hawkins spoke with World Bank Global Co-Lead for Technology and Innovation in Education Michael Trucano about Michael's journey over the past 20 years advising and evaluating educational technology initiatives in over 50 middle- and low-income countries. Bob and Mike have worked together since the mid-1990s on edt...

On July 24, World Bank Global Lead for Technology Innovation in Education Robert Hawkins spoke with World Bank Education Specialist Alex Twinomugisha about Alex's journey from African Virtual University to the Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative (GeSCI) to Intel Corporation’s Education and Government Digital Transformation work in East Africa. -- Robert Hawkins is the World Bank's Senior E...

On July 17, World Bank Global Lead for Technology Innovation in Education Robert Hawkins spoke with World Bank Education Specialist Cristóbal Cobo about Cristóbal's journey from Mexico, Uruguay, and the UK to the World Bank and his recent book, I Accept The Terms and Conditions: Uses and Abuses of Digital Technologies . -- Robert Hawkins is the World Bank's Senior Education & Technology Policy...

As part of our partnership with the Harvard Graduate School of Education, HundrED, and OECD in response to the COVID-19 crisis, are co-hosting a series of webinars focused on education response to the coronavirus. The initial webinars focused on the cases of Spain and Colombia.  On July 9, we co-hosted a webinar focusing on how Egypt is implementing digital technologies to support remote lear...

Designing Distance Education Programs: Lessons from Telesecundaria in Mexico (episode in Spanish) On April 30, 2020, World Bank Education Specialist Cristobal Cobo spoke with Dr. Germán Ruiz from Telesecundaria in Mexico. Telesecundaria is a  system of distance education programs for secondary and high school students created by the government of Mexico. Learn more about Telesecundaria at htt...

Using Flexible Digital Pedagogies: Lessons from Plan Ceibal in Uruguay (episode in English) On April 8, 2020, World Bank Education Specialist Cristobal Cobo spoke with Claudia Brovetto and Gabriela Kaplan from Plan Ceibal in Uruguay. Learn more about Plan Ceibal at https://www.ceibal.edu.uy/es.

Crowdsourcing and Curating Education Content: Lessons from Educlan in Spain (episode in Spanish) On April 7, 2020, World Bank Education Specialist Cristobal Cobo spoke with  Carlos Medina (Director of INTEF), Yago Fadiño (Director of Content for children on Spanish television) and Federico Buyolo (Deputy Director Cabinet of the Minister) about the Educlan program in S...

Reimagining the Future of Education: Lessons from Evoke in Colombia (episode in Spanish) On June 24, 2020, the World Bank Education Technology team hosted a conversation about the future of education in Colombia. The Ministry of Education in Colombia, the EAN University of Bogotá, the Economic and Commercial Office of Spain in Colombia, Telefónica, and the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz joined the conver...