Raya Bidshahri
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Founder / CEO, School of Humanity; Senior Project Manager, SciFest Dubai; Founder, Awecademy; BBC’s “100 Most Influential Women” (2019);
(5) Big Ideas from the Podcast:
- make “more time to make more mistakes”
- they offer no classes; they only offer interdisciplinary challenges (and workshops)
- School of Humanity invites learners to ‘act’ upon great challenges; they are not pressured to ‘solve’ those challenges
- designing Orientation Week for the entire family, not just the learner: “Support from and for the entire family is critical in a truly online school.”
- everyone (learner, facilitator, family, partner) arrives with her/his own ‘why’