Girl Scouts of USA Hires TLC
Every year, Girl Scouts of the USA serves over 2,000,000 girls and 900,000 volunteers internationally. Through a myriad of enriching experiences, such as extraordinary field trips, sports skill-building clinics, community service projects, cultural exchanges, environmental stewardships, and online endeavors, girls grow courageous and strong.
Girl Scouts of the USA has hired The Learning Collective to conceive an engaging online experience that will help girls across the globe reduce their carbon footprint. This is part of GSUSA’s Journeys program. Learn more.
The Learning Collective is proud to work with the Girl Scouts on this important project.
Read More...TLC Members’ Work Webby Nominated
Youth Venture’s social change website, which Members of The Learning Collective helped created, is nominated for a Webby. Adam Aberman, along with Lior Ipp (former TLC Member), created the original specifications for the website, developed by Interfuel, up for a 2011 Webby in the Youth category. Adam Aberman and Lior Ipp did this work in 2009 while employed by Ashoka’s Youth Venture.
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College Board Hires TLC
Each year, the College Board serves seven million students and their parents, 23,000 high schools, and 3,800 colleges through major programs and services in college readiness, college admission, guidance, assessment, financial aid, enrollment, and teaching and learning.
The College Board has hired The Learning Collective to help develop College Board’s new online professional development model
Read More...TLC Announces Three New Clients
The Learning Collective announces three new clients. We are acting as the “in-house” online educational experts for Ketchum and their account with a leading provider of online classes to middle and high school students. We’re advising UCLA on the potential development of an online emergency preparedness tool for developmentally disabled adults. And we’re overseeing Mojo Markeing & Media’s Jamaican charitable programs, and related digital promotions, stemming from The Mojo 6 LPGA/CBS golf tournament. Learn more about what we do.
UNICEF Rapid Prototyping Lessons
Interesting lessons learned excerpted from UNICEF’s Stories of Innovation …
This video is a synopsis of the projects, themes and trouble-shooting expressed at the Design Days event on May 10-11 at UNICEF NYHQ.
We have edited down a conversation between UNICEF sponsored rapid design prototypers to profile what they have created in order to respond to and alleviate actual needs of families and children. This video is intended to help make transparent the iterative process that development must undergo in order to create a new device that can respond to global concerns. Also touched on are ways for the organization to make the process of creating prototypes more streamlined, and the best method to take what is developed and to make it open source in order to create a sustainable and beneficial outcome to those that need it.
For Design Days we invited designers and engineers who have worked with us to discuss UNICEF, the design process, and recommendations for future design collaborations.
Lessons Learned:
UNICEF needs methods for iterative and flexible design contracting; we can’t always know what the end result will look like.
UNICEF would benefit from understanding and discussion of the design process before embarking on projects.
We need to work with open-source designers and engineers so that whatever we pay to have produced is public domain.
“Research” and “development” need to happen with end users, in the field.
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