Less than seven percent of people worldwide have a bachelor's degree -- and for many, this is simply because the cost of university is too high, says higher education executive Adrian K. Haugabrook. In this barrier-breaking talk, he introduces an innovative approach to expanding access to higher education by driving down costs and rethinking thr...

Out of the more than 70 million displaced people worldwide, only three percent have access to higher education. The Global Education Movement (GEM) is on a mission to change that with the first large-scale initiative of its kind to help refugee learners get bachelor's degrees and create pathways toward employment. Hear from students and the prog...

With Coursera, Daphne Koller and co-founder Andrew Ng are bringing courses from top colleges online, free, for anyone who wants to take them.

Created in collaboration with Wiley, the American academic publishing company, TED Studies use TED talks as a jumping-off point for a structured educational experience. They're designed to help students, professors, researchers and self-guided learners explore important topics in higher education. On TED.com, each TED Study includes a curated vi...

Build Back Better features thought leaders and change agents evaluating our pre-pandemic systems and practices in an effort to create a more sustainable, efficient and just world. (Made possible with the support of Verizon)

LB Hannahs facilitates change by leaning into discomfort and centering authenticity.

D-L Stewart empowers and imagines futures that sustain and cultivate the learning, growth and success of minoritized groups in postsecondary education.

Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly narrow areas of study, she proposes a truly cross-disciplinary education -- one that dynamically combines all areas of study to address the great problems of our day.

At the online University of the People, anyone with a high school diploma can take classes toward a degree in business administration or computer science — without standard tuition fees (though exams cost money). Founder Shai Reshef hopes that higher education is changing "from being a privilege for the few to a basic right, affordable and acces...

Higher education remains rooted in rigid, traditional structures and tracks -- and it's at risk of getting left behind in favor of expanded access, greater flexibility and tailored learning. Educator Tyler DeWitt explains how innovations in digital content and virtual reality are ushering in the future of learning, emphasizing why academia must ...

Adrian K. Haugabrook is working to rethink and redesign higher education.

Shai Reshef wants to democratize higher education.

Liz Coleman radically remade Bennington College in the mid-1990s, in pursuit of a new vision: higher education as a performing art.

"Once upon a time in America," says professor Sajay Samuel, "going to college did not mean graduating with debt." Today, higher education has become a consumer product -- costs have skyrocketed, saddling students with a combined debt of over $1 trillion, while universities and loan companies make massive profits. Samuel proposes a radical soluti...

TED Fellow Dr. Elizabeth Wayne is a biomedical engineer and advocate for women in higher education.

Peter Doolittle is striving to understand the processes of human learning.

Shai Reshef believes higher education is a right, not a privilege. In January 2009, he founded University of the People, a nonprofit, tuition-free, online university dedicated to opening up higher education to anyone in the world with a high school diploma and a willingness to learn -- “regardless of who they are, where they live or what soc...

Christina Costa teaches psychology to undergraduate and high school students and studies well-being and resilience.

As the head of a student group called Uncomfortable Learning, Zachary R. Wood made a point of engaging in conversation with people he disagreed with.

Through blended courses Anant Agarwal is pairing online education with face-to-face student-faculty interactions, reshaping the university campus experience.

Michael Green designs and studies flags, and is fascinated about how we use them as symbols of personal identity and pride.

In this contested territory, women must endure a lengthy, frustrating process when they pursue a university education abroad. Here are four of their stories. “For me, two basic human rights are the right to education and the freedom of movement,” says Kuwaiti-raised Palestinian photojournalist Laura Boushnak (TED Talk: For these women, reading ...

George Siemens taught the first "massive open online course" back in 2008. He shares his take on why the class form is still valid -- and what might happen next in higher ed. In the past few years, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become a lens used by educators, entrepreneurs, education reformers and venture capitalists to view the h...

Michel Dugon researches the potential of spider venom as a source of novel therapeutic agents.

Severn Cullis-Suzuki is a lifelong environmental activist seeking justice for future generations.

David Lammy is the first Black MP to hold the Justice post in British Parliament, either in government or opposition.

Linguist John McWhorter thinks about language in relation to race, politics and our shared cultural history.

About this event: TEDxAshokaU provided the platform to share some of the best innovations used in Higher Education to address the many challenges the sector is currently facing.

About this event: This session explores and discusses the innovation of several initiatives managed by our speaker, Dr. Lovett, for the Governor of Tennessee that drove degree and credential completion. He will also discuss his work with the Communities Foundation of Texas and how he hopes to accomplish similar results in Texas. Speaker: Dr. Kenyatta Lovett, Ma...

Kelsey Johnson has spent her life in awe of the universe, and she works to inspire that awe in future generations.