MIT to offer Free Online Classes which lead to a Degree
First time a university has made online coursework a feeder to a degree.
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Alexandra Alden
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OpenIDEO
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas Edison"
Creating pathways to impact and facilitating community cohesion. Impact Strategist @OpenIDEO | Master's Candidate @UC Berkeley Master of Development Practice
Last activity: on 22/05/2018
Joined: on 30/11/2014
Design quotient
Research
119pt
Idea
251pt
Evaluation
1pt
Collaboration
569pt
Total
940pt
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The Social Portion Plate
This plate helps people with portion control and through connection with an app lets people know exactly how many calories they consume.
Entrepreneurial Training for Women
Improves refugee education by creating access to entrepreneurial training and financing for refugee women.
Research Finds Cultural Factors, Insecurity and Poverty Main Issues with Education Access
Scholarly article on education access in Kakuma Camp, Kenya
Tesla goes Open Source
Elon Musk announced this June that he was making all of Tesla's patents open to the general public. Instead of seeing other people's innovations as competition, he looked at it as a model to accelerate research on the field of electric cars and suppo
The “Water Care Model”: Preventing Water-Borne Illness in 0 - 5 year olds
According to the World Health Organization over 4,000 children die each day as a result of waterborne illness. Our aim is to develop a scalable model of excellence that integrates drinking water testing treatment and related education into the primar
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