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Moi University in Kenya and IUPUI students continue their dialogue

Students at the Moi University in Kenya and students in Peg Williams anthropology class at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis continue discussing their perceptions of each others countries. Check out Project Perception to see the latest with this on-going project.


Project Perception is made possible by a gift from the Anspach Family Trust and in part by a grant through the US Fulbright Program




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Global reform of education to overcome the constraints of medieval educational models and to extend adaptive learning systems throughout our planet (such as Global Visits is seeking to do) is a huge task. It is comparable to such human undertakings as the Apollo Moon Project, the Great Wall of China or the Great Pyramid of Egypt. In this case, the materials to be worked with are not stone and steel. Rather we must work with people's minds, transform educational philosophies, and alter values and biases.

-- Professor Joseph N. Pelton, Executive Director, Arthur C. Clarke Institute and author of e-Sphere: The Rise of the W-Wide Mind e
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