#13 Guiding Impactful Change in Education with Paula Elksne

Paula is a Latvian researcher who focuses on education innovation. Her passion lies in exploring new ideas and sharing them with others. She loves creating and executing new projects and initiatives.

She spent a year in BAFF in Boston at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Where
she was a researcher in the “Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL)” to research
innovation diffusion and change management in higher education.

Today she is a Director at Education Innovation Lab at Riga Business School.

At the podcast we talk about:

• How can one bring innovation to education, without being a teacher?
• Differences between student life in the US and Latvia.
• Co-operation between Riga University and MIT?
• How the commitment of people in the MIT community inspired Paula
• Creating boot camps in Africa

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