Self Education for School Dropouts

Few months back I signed up for a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on Design Thinking Action Lab from Stanford and it being more of an action lab rather than a theoretical course, it was a fun experience. During the course, I happened to pick up the problem of getting school dropouts to continue their education. My motivation to address this problem was a young 15-year old school drop-out, Anand who was assisting the carpenter building furniture for my home. So talking to him about why he dropped out was the starting point and the rest I will share in the Prezis I submitted as assignments for this course.

Here is the Empathy Map that summarizes my talk with him and defines the problem statement for the course


Here is a summary of my experiment to get Anand to educate himself using a smartphone


And last, here is a summary explaining the complete process of designing an affordable and meaningful self education learning program for a high school dropout