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November 13, 2020

How a Decades-Old Flagship Program Got a Digital Makeover and Blew Up the Internet This Summer

In 2016, World Learning launched a virtual exchange program designed to connect students from the Middle East with their U.S. peers. Without leaving their living rooms, participants interacted through videos, discussion forums, webinars, online chats, and playing digital games together. Known as DYLEP—Digital Young Leaders Exchange Program—it brought together more…
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November 13, 2020

An Experiment Across Three Generations

Evelyn Seidner embarked on a remarkable journey to India and Nepal last summer with World Learning’s The Experiment in International Living program — the same program that her mother and grandfather had done when they were about her age. During Evelyn’s trip, she spent five days sleeping on the floor…
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November 13, 2020

World Learning Webinar Helped Educators Adapt STEM Education for Online Learning

During the COVID-19 pandemic, one major concern for parents and educators around the world is students’ loss of learning from students being out of the classroom for so long. While many students are benefiting from online learning, some subjects, such as science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), can be difficult…
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November 13, 2020

Celebrating the Importance of Virtual Exchanges on National STEM Day

By World Learning Program Associate Katya Murillo and Intern Taieb Cherif Climate change, food security and sanitation, healthcare, and gender equality are just a few of the many grand challenges countries across the globe face today, and in an increasingly global world we recognize that we must work together to…
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October 27, 2020

What Does it Take to Facilitate a Virtual Exchange Across Two Continents?

Djamila Azzouz is a 22-year-old Algerian student who worked as a facilitator for World Learning’s eight-week The Experiment Digital program in 2019 and 2020. The program is a virtual exchange designed to connect hundreds of young people across the U.S. with peers in Iraq, Algeria, Yemen, and other countries in…
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