History

Description

• Empowering hands-on skills taught by global leaders through a collaborating network of local educational workgroups

Course Requirements

• Taught by global leaders
• Distributed rather than distance education, with students in workgroups
• Just-in-time, peer-to-peer, project-based, hands-on learning
• Rigorous assessment standards
• Use common supporting platform, cover central costs
  • Faculty, curriculum, IT, finances, student tracking, marketing
• Documented in annual report
• Reviewed annually

Governance

• Director: Neil
• Coordinator: Luciana
• Working group: internal course heads
• Advisory group: outside course reviewers

Fab Futures

• 21st century vocational skills
  • artificial intelligence
  • biotechnology
  • big data
  • cyber security
  • robotics
  • microelectronics
  • nanotechnology
  • computer graphics
  • video game development
  • precision agriculture
  • sustainability
  • entrepreneurship
  • ...
• One month rotating units with rotating faculty
• Continually adding, dropping, cycling topics
• Never starts, never ends
• Can do any number of one-month units
• One month completion certificates: Introduction to ...
• One year diplomas: +integration project
• Can incubate full programs
• All other Academany requirements
• Fixed central cost, varying local cost+requirements
• Recurring roles
  • Curator: Neil
  • Program manager: Jean-Michel
  • Coordinator: Luciana
• Fall start goal