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"Established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000, the Millennium Development Goals were formed to galvanise efforts to meet the needs of the world's poorest. Eight goals were defined and twenty-one targets were set to be completed by 2015. / To mark the final year of this programme, Taylor & Francis Group are delighted to be offering free access to selected research related to each of the eight Millennium Development Goals" (¶¶1-2, 2015.11.17). The offer of free access apparently will expire at the end of November 2015 (Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability,¶3, http://goo.gl/zjYrCb).

"Not only inside the university but after graduating when it comes to career options[,] the knowledge and fluency of English can be very helpful. Every professional job needs a good usage of English. To engage in international trade activities, to develop technical skills required in modern industries and for many other opportunities in developing the personal career, need the usage of English" (¶13, 2015.08.19).

Essays on this Schooling the World resource page (2014.10.06) include: The Other Way of Knowing To Hell With Good Intentions Education is Ignorance Do Indigenous Peoples Benefit from "Development?" Indigenising Curriculum: Questions Posed by Baiga Vidya Indigenous Knowledge Systems / Alaska Native Ways of Knowing Childhood in an Indian Village

"Watch this short, satirical film, written by Oren Ginzburg and narrated by actor and comedian David Mitchell, which tells the story of how tribal peoples are being destroyed in the name of 'development'."

"Gapminder is a fact tank, not a think tank. Gapminder fights devastating misconceptions about global development. Gapminder produces free teaching resources making the world understandable based on reliable statistics. Gapminder promotes a fact-based worldview everyone can understand" (What Gapminder is, ¶1, 2018.01.25).

Check out Dollar Street and other cool interpretive visualization tools on this site!

"Career and technical education (CTE or vocational education) educators now face a critical new imperative: to prepare all students for work and civic roles in a world where success increasingly requires the ability to compete, connect, and cooperate on an international scale. / A new, free professional development course and toolkit, "Global Competence Through Career and Technical Education," is available to help" (¶¶1-2, 2017.11.29).

"Washback becomes negative when learners spend so much time preparing for exams that they do not develop the actual skills and abilities those tests are meant to measure, thereby calling into question the very validity (and wisdom) of the tests themselves."

Rajaendram and Khor (2015) quoted an open letter from "a group of prominent Malaysian" that embraced integrative motivation for developing English proficiency: "'[I]f we aspire to be more proficient in the language, we are only trying to be better citizens of the world'" (¶4). What a breathe of fresh air among all the integrative motives that articles like this one often highlight! Rajaendram, Rebecca, & Khor, Ann-Marie. (2015, August 9). Speaking the global language. The Star Online, Education section. Retrieved from http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Education/2015/08/09/Speaking-the-global-language/

"The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world."

"Our findings contribute to an improved understanding of the effects personalisation has and proposes several lines of interpretation of the quantitative data. Based on this, we conclude that more research is urgently needed to develop a wider understanding of the social and cultural implications of personalisation of Web search in people's everyday life (Introduction, ¶6).

"The MERLOT Content Builder is a free webpage and website development tool that is integrated into MERLOT. It is directly accessible by logged-in members from the MERLOT home page by clicking the Create Material with Content Builder tile or the Access Content Builder link from a member's profile page, under Actions. All webpages and websites built with Content Builder are hosted by MERLOT" ((Help, ¶1).

"Room for improvement: For decades, Asia has been the workshop of the world, fueling economic development across the region. But a transition from manufacturing to knowledge-driven growth will require better English."

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Schwartz (2014.02.28) acknowledged that approaches fostering deeper learning are not new, and pointed out related competencies derived from a MOOC. She also highlighted challenges of assessing such competencies.

"The Global Digital Citizen Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to cultivating responsible, ethical, global citizens for a digital world" (Vision, deck, 2014.08.27).

Coutts, Nigel. (2015.12.20).

In this post including a 16-slide SlideShare presentation, Bernard Marr recommended "adopting a commitment to lifelong learning so you can acquire the skills you will need to succeed in the future workplace" (¶1).