No child should die from malaria: Thierno Abdoulaye Baldé’s story
The Geneva Learning Foundation runs peer learning for the people who deliver health care where it is hardest to deliver. Its courses ask participants not for…
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Teach to Reach 17: Share your experience, find new ways to solve your challenges
You are stuck on a problem at work. A colleague in another country has already solved it. How can you connect? Request your invitation to join…
Teach to Reach 16 Replay: Defying distance to learn and lead change, from menopause to malaria
258 health workers. 1,534 real stories. One question: how do we turn the tide against malaria? In Teach to Reach 16, the Geneva Learning Foundation gives…
The Geneva Learning Foundation Scholar Newsletter, issue 6 (6 August 2026)
Dear Scholar, On Thursday 6 August 2026, health professionals will gather for Teach to Reach 16 (what is this?). Leaders from TGLF’s Malaria: Turning the Tide programme…
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You know that climate change is hurting the health of your community: You do this without being asked, and often without being paid back for the…
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Too many problems, too little time You have more to do this week than the week has hours. The list gets longer. You have plans, but…
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Quick Q&A with George Siemens on corporate MOOCs
Here is an unedited chat with George Siemens about corporate MOOCs. He is preparing an open, online symposium on scaling up corporate learning, to be announced…
From communication to education
There is of course an intimate relationship between communication and education. In many universities, both sit under the discipline of psychology. However, in most international organizations, these tend…
Learn and change
A learning organization is an organization that has an enhanced capacity to learn and change. Source: Watkins, K.E., Milton, J., Kurz, D., 2009. Diagnosing the…
A question of such immense and worldwide importance
Scale: Predictions over the impact of climate change and globalization suggest that we will see more frequent disasters in a greater number of countries, along with…
Sustainability
In a complex, knowledge-driven society, learning, education and training are key to sustainability. Sustainability initiatives need to explicitly make learning strategic in order to succeed in…
Panamanian chicken
Why did the chicken cross the road? Lunch time, after a jet-lagged conference morning. Hand shakes and smiles, mingling Spanish and English. Forks and knives scrape plates as…
Four billion
A few months ago, a malaria guy showed me the $20 dumb Nokia phones he buys in a Geneva convenience store and then gives out to…
There is no scale
So, you are unhappy with a five percent completion rate. Hire tutors (lots of them, if it is massive). Try to get machines to tutor. Use…
Divonne
Demure, soft-spoken, personable, affable, no-nonsense. All those things, in that peculiarly North American way. Those words don’t do justice to B., the uniquely compelling individual I…