The MacArthur foundation has spun off its work in digital media and education into a separate entity called Collective Shift, and provided the new nonprofit with $25 million in start-up cash.
The new organization’s mission is to “redesign social systems for the connected age.”
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has spent more than $200 million developing a new approach to education, which it calls “connected learning.” Collective Shift will use this method in its first project, which is dubbed LRNG. The project will bring together different aspects of a student’s life, including schoolwork, personal interests, learning from peers, and employment into a curriculum that will include the use of “digital badges” as credentials for activities outside of traditional classroom work.
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