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April 9, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
The Khan Academy is a free online educational platform that provides self-paced, mastery-based education, and is a launching pad for what will become a complete, free knowledge-base for health care education.
April 8, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Khan Academy, AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have launched a powerful collaboration with potentially significant implications for health care education.
April 2, 2013 | News Release
The new collaboration would help provide free online resources to help students get ready.
February 20, 2013 | Program Result
Ashoka: Innovators for the Public sponsored an online competition to identify innovative health care programs in developing countries with potential to be replicated in the United States and selected three winners from 373 entries.
January 30, 2013
News and upcoming events from the Pioneer Portfolio.
November 27, 2012 | Program Result
HopeLab Foundation, Redwood City, Calif., hosted an idea prize competition and then built an interactive, digital product to spur physical activity in middle school students, particularly those youth who are most likely to become obese.
September 7, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Read a blog post about an initiative to identify and map automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in Philadelphia.
July 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This article examines the impact of team-based interventions on weight loss during a statewide weight loss competition in Rhode Island.
June 15, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The program generated a forum for faculty and students that spectacularly transformed the learning experience. Students learned new language and ways to think differently about problems and solutions. Students learned by doing and developed an unexp ...
May 16, 2012 | Program Result
Ashoka, via its Changemakers initiative, hosted two international online idea competitions and developed Changeshops, an open-source platform allowing innovators to introduce their projects, seek funding and exchange ideas.