"Winners announced for the "Oscars" of innovation in higher education"
Philadelphia, December 9th: The Wharton-QS Stars Awards 2014: Reimagine Education took place on December 9th in Philadelphia. The global competition received submissions from 427 universities and enterprises from 43 countries with 21 awards judged by a panel of 25 international experts – a 'who’s who' of higher education.
QS Quacquarelli Symonds, publisher of the QS World University Rankings, has developed this global competition to identify the most innovative approaches in higher education to enhance learning and student employability, in partnership with The Wharton School SEI Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
The overall award has a prize fund of US$ 50,000, offered by IELTS, and the judges decided it should be shared by two overall winners:
PaGamO, the worlds' first-ever multi-student social game (National Taiwan University) in which students compete to amass virtual land and wealth by answering questions correctly and can then buy defences to protect themselves from monsters and other competitors. This highly engaging platform is popular for teaching probability in Chinese, teaching maths to K12 students in the USA , teaching dentistry to US Ivy league undergraduates and has been adopted by a fortune 500 company to teach management and leadership
PhET Interactive Simulations (University of Colorado Boulder) provides interactive animations to teach students fundamental scientific principles. Over 130 stunning and engaging simulations have already inspired over 45 million students around the world.
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