Edtech Asia Issue #8
Metaverse blossoms in 🇰🇷 South Korea, 🇯🇵 Japan, and 🇹🇼 Taiwan | Phone-based lessons boost Philippine students’ math skills 🇵🇭 | “Skills-based hiring" becomes all the rage 🌎
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🚀 Big news in Asia is here! Metaverse blossoms in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. Singapore wins the Upskilling challenge! Phone-based lessons boost students’ math skills in the Philippines. Indian startups mostly raised funds, while others have few acquisitions. Meanwhile, “skills-based hiring” becomes all the rage globally 🌎 Plus, interesting reads about AI in Education.
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📰 Hottest News
🇰🇷 🇯🇵 🇹🇼 Metaverse education blossoms in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan. The hype of virtual reality in Asia continues! Schools in South Korea and Taiwan are tapping the Metaverse as an instruction tool by experimenting with VR applications to devise new ways of teaching.
🇸🇬 How Singapore is Winning the Upskilling Challenge. Singapore launches the “SkillsFuture” where 660,000 individuals are utilizing the program initiatives. Upskilling employees emerged as the top goal for L&D in Singapore. Read more to learn how Singapore responds to upskilling.
🇵🇭 Phone-based lessons boost Philippines students’ math skills. The mobile application called "MathDali" has helped students enhance their learning and performance in math by providing accessible and interactive lessons. The initiative has been praised for its effectiveness in addressing educational challenges and promoting digital learning in the country.
🇰🇷 Foreign students at Korean colleges hit an all-time high! Korean government's efforts to attract international students through scholarships and expanded academic programs succeeded with the rise in foreign student enrollment. This increase is seen as a positive development for Korean higher education and international cooperation.
🍚 Stanford University's Asia-Pacific Research Center discusses the potential benefits of talent mobility within the Asia-Pacific region. As the talent pool flows in Asia-pacific, it needs policies that promote talent mobility and collaboration among nations in the region.
FUNDINGS | ACQUISITIONS
TEKY raises $5M led by Sweef Capital from Singapore. 🇻🇳 🇸🇬
TinyTap raised $8.5 m backed by Sequoia 🇮🇳
RESOURCES
World Economic Forum talks about the Skills-first approach. Businesses that adopt the skills-first model will be more competitive and emerge stronger. WEforum also shares the skills adjacency map to help out in skills development and targeted hiring.
‘Skills-Based Hiring’ Becomes All The Rage! In order to narrow down the skills gap, experts say it starts with schools. Carnegie Foundation is teaming up with a nonprofit testing developer to assess students using methods like project feedback and AI tools, a very different approach to help school graduates showcase their acquired skills in the real world.
What’s Next For Learning And Development? Where were we before? Where are we going? and How to get there—3 key points that talk about the future of L&D.
The Diffusion of Innovations In K-12 Edtech. Curious about what will be the next edtech wave? This article discusses the adoption of K-12 schools in innovation. With Broadband Internet and Google Chromebooks as case studies, it highlights how diffusion of innovation happens in K-12 edtech.
ALL ABOUT AI
News
AI programs like ChatGPT to be on the G-7 agenda in Hiroshima, Japan
Skilldora & D-ID is hailed as the world’s first accredited AI-based eLearning
CreatorUp Launches Daisy, the First AI Content Creation Platform
US Continuing Education Market Report: ChatGPT is the Future of Continuing Education
Insights
Bill Gates says AI chatbots will teach kids how to read & write within 18 months.
Large, creative AI models will transform lives and labour markets
AI Disruption in Education Isn't About AI. It's About The Business Models AI Enables.
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Janica. Good to see the diverse coverage of content here like the piece about talent mobility. I was reading Government of India's report related to skills and the latter part includes some valuable information about skills + mobility > https://www.msde.gov.in/sites/default/files/2023-09/Final%20Skill%20AR%20Eng.pdf.
Akhil Kishore
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/akhilkishore/