1. Renald Lachashvili
Exercise presentation for MOOC of
Design Thinking Action Lab
By Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, Stanford University
Ocean of Education

2. 50 ideas
Here I present my ideas to solve the problem, which I have defined as
follows: to reconcile the interests of all stakeholders: students and
their parents, all the staff of school, Universities, employers (at least -
its HR managers):
1. (Practical) idea, does not require any cost: Open the page in
Facebook and begin to invite the representatives of parties for talks
2. Activities for professional orientation in and out of school
3. Fair of vacancies offered by employers
4. Open days at Universities
5. Orders for graduates of Universities placed by employers
6. The practical training of students at the workplace
7. Technology courses at schools
8. Corporate education
9. Possible idea of a 5 years-kid: “I would gather all parties to the
ice-cream party”

3. 10. If I had lots of money: I would suggest to reconstruct the
whole system of education and training in the world - it is to be
continuous, without barriers between different stages (schools,
Colleges, Universities, corporate education) (disruptive)
11. Fantastical idea: Time machine that moves the student from
school to University, to work and back, to let him to feel what he
would do at work
12. Discover interests of the parties by the questionnaire throw e-
mail
13. Provide a Skype-conference for representatives of the parties
14. Provide meeting of the parties at school
15. To hold an international conference on the transition from
school to work
16. Contact UNESCO with this project
17. Organize crowdsourcing to inquire on the problem
18. Organize a contest for the solution of the problem among
schools, Universities, colleges and HR-managers

4. 19. Organize study on the interests of the parties at Stanford
University
20. Conduct a foresight on the future of education
21. Organize all stages of education (from kindergarten) inside the
big business
22. Abolish all institutions of full-time study and learn in individual
and distantly
23. Tax exemptions for businesses that organize the realization of
students projects
24. Organize special schools to train crafts
25. Put the representatives of all sides on the island and keep until
they agree
26. Conduct fair on future vacancies for graduates of schools
27. Organize Universities and Colleges within the corporate training
28. Create an Association of lifelong learning

5. 29. Make a list of good and bad features of different professions
30. Create an Association of young employees
31. Incubator of young employees
32. To shoot the soap opera on socialization
33. Do a reality show about socialization
34. To make the mutual project with the participation of parents-
children-young tmployees
35. Provide roundtable on the problem with Google hangout
36. Create a livejournal on the problem of coordination of interests
of the parties
37. Organize TED session on the problem
38. Create a series of courses (MOOC) for high and higher
schools students «what it means to be a surgeon, a banker, a
baker and other professionals»

6. 39. School courses for parents provided by HR-managers
40. A focus group study of the Universities proposals
41. Questionnaire for parents: What I want for my child after
graduating from the school, University? After entering a work?
42. Educational clusters containing kindergarten, school,
Colledges, University, corporate University
43. Portfolio for life recording all the achievements of the person
from the date of botn
44. Independent certification which does not require any
certificates of attendance
45. Simulators for most popular professions
46. Educational games on work of surgeon, policeman, pilot,
baker and so on
47. Weeks of professions at school (the school becomes an
airport, hotel, hospital)
48. Video games for parents sending their child to different kinds
of work

7. 49. Role-playing games for parents: what could I recommend to
my child, and children scores that ideas (a kind of gamification)
50. Video quests for children on different occupations (like the
story of a Mysterious island by Jules Verne)
51. Game diving into the profession for school students
52. Professionarium museum (like Experimentarium museum
Copehagen)
53. The toy city (children's police, mayor's office, a hospital, a
school, a shop and so on) - like children's railway
54. Trial lectures in higher schools for high school students, test
labs, homework, colloquiums, tests and exams (like open doors,
but through the days, but through an action)
55. Essay competitions for parents and children: the UNIVERSITY
of MY DREAM, MY DREAMED JOB
56. Essay competition for HR: the applicant of my dreams
57. For Universities: the entrant of my dreams
58. For school: parents of my dreams

8. 59. For children: the school of my dream, my dreamed job
60. Press conference (for school students) from the second year
students: How to survive in the University
61. Press conference for students from second year interns: How
to survive at work
62. Network essay contest for employees: describe the worst
workplace you have ever seen
63. Make a landing of higher school teachers to production site
64. Lectures of businessmen in Universities and schools
65. Establish the new Nobel prize in pedagogy
66. Introduce tax benefits for employers of University graduates
similarly to employers of persons with disabilities
67. Make acquaintance with the profession through extreme
situations (island, flood, fire, first aid)
68. Part-time internship for students, special centers of internships
(curriculum is designed on the basis of interviews with HR,
Universities, parents)

9. 69. Public awards for parents for volunteer work at the school
70. Develop an alternative system of education on the basis of
voluntary Association of efforts of parents, teachers, University
lecturers, employers (create a chain from kindergarten through
independent certification and employment)
71. Gather a team of positive and interested parents, seniors,
students of different courses, employers from 3 sectors
(government, business, NGOs) and researchers (methodologists),
take them in a good place and hold a business game to solve the
problem
72. To give all the processes of socialization to outsourcing bodies
73. Everyone (both teachers and students) at the school teach
and everyone learns, the older students teach the younger ones
(favorite)

10. Integration of ideas

12. 3 selected ideas

13. The most practical idea No.1 (one
that could be easily implemented):
I could open the page in Facebook and begin to
invite the representatives of parties for talks. I
could inform all my followers and ask them to
inform all their followers and so on. Almost
everybody belongs, at least, to one of the
parties: teachers, students and their parents,
employers or HR-managers.
I hope, we could initiate discussion of the issues
from different perspectives.

14. My favorite idea No.73 (one idea that I am excited
about for whatever reason... I don’t have to justify
why)
Everyone (both teachers and students) at the school
teach and everyone learns, the older students teach
the younger ones.
Usually, teachers do not want to learn and students
have no possibilities to teach. But I have seen some
examples, when people in the school turned out to
learn together and one example, when older
students successfully taught younger ones.
I am sure that it is possible to implement such a
school in life.

15. The most disruptive idea No. 10 (one that
would make a huge impact, regardless of
how feasible or affordable it is)
If I had lots of money: I would suggest to
reconstruct the whole system of education and
training in the world - it is to be continuous,
without barriers between different stages
(schools, Colleges, Universities, corporate
education) – it will be the Ocean of Education.

16. The Ocean of Education

17. I have a dream: to remove all barriers between educational
institutions, to get the Ocean of Education.
This Ocean is surrounded by seas and beaches, where any
person can be delivered by the bullet train (300 000 kilometers per
second). On the beach one can enjoy of Edutainment and have
fun of Internet-surfing.
Everyone can go to the ocean on a yacht, alone or with friends,
gathering them into the team. You can go on one of sailers of the
MOOCs.
Having reached the opposite shore, you can see the mountain
chain, of which flow rivers of Sciences: Mathematics, Physics…
To climb on this river, you have all the time to go against the flow,
and when the river will not passable, you have to scramble.
Advancing to the top will be rewarded by the Nobel prize.