eXtreme Learning
Throw out the teacher. Bring in the team.
Combine pair-based- / problem-based- / fail-based- / sprint-based-learning with agile scrum. Mix in a ton psycho social support, mindfulness training, yoga, mediation, talking circles (restorative justice) and badda bing! Witnessed are dramatic increases in 31 personality traits that correlate with leadership, success and life happiness.
- Educators fostering 21st century skills
- Personalized teaching, especially in disadvantaged communities
eXtreme Learning is relatively new. Adapted from code bootcamp pedagogy. Our org has been doing it for 2 years now and is constantly refining it. It is the only form of training / education able to keep pace with a rapidly accelerating future. But the proof is in the pudding: RBK's placement rates are 100% compared to less 10% from the best universities in the region.
Combination of several previous pedagogies with agile/scrum, heavy facilitation, sentiment analysis and mPEAK mindfulness training to render powerful new education technology.
Expansion into Palestine, Lebanon and Turkey. Focusing on the same disadvantaged populations. 3/4s of each cohort is female or refugee.
20 campuses from Casablanca to Karachi producing technicians for a dozen high demand industries including tech (data science, machine learning / AI, IoT, blockchain, cyber-security, CRM admin), medical (nursing, mental health, med techs, dental hygienist), architecture / physical engineering, auto / robot repair and more
- Adult
- Female
- Rural
- Lower
- Middle East and North Africa
Partnering with various INGOs. Increasing the quality of our product. Signing up new hiring partners. Building out a more robust Outcomes Team to better refine grads for placement with select hiring partners.
Since 2016, we have produced 130 high quality software engineers a year. Each graduate supports on average of 6 family members with some supporting up to 12.
In Syria, 1 in 5 buildings has been seriously damaged or destroyed. Needed will be armies of CAD techs, modelers, renderers, animators, draftspersons and specwriters to product the mountains of construction documents need for the $1 trillion rebuild. RBK will be supplying these technicians.
12 months: 700 high quality software engineers a year.
3 years: 5,000-10,000+ para professions across a dozen industries.
The life time earning capacity of an RBK grad is $1.5M. For every 1,000 grads that is 3.5 billion lifetime GDP contribution.
There is massive demand for our product in the region. We could exporting 5-8K per year just to Saudi Arabia as they are throwing hundreds of billions of dollars at juicing their nascent startup system.
NEOM will require tens of thousands of programmers to keep this fully automated megacity running.
- Non-Profit
- 20+
- 3-4 years
eXtreme Learning pedagogy. Our grads get job. Every. Last. One. In an country where 77% of the female degree holders are unemployed. In a country where effective youth unemployment is 62%. Our grads start for 2-3X what a university grad will start for. RBK grads are being hired with no college or high degree.
Tuition fees; recruiting fees; selling loan agreements (success stories / outcomes) to INGOs (retroactive scholarships; outsourcing company revenues
Network / intellectual infrastructure
Lending partner recruitment. We need to get out of the banking business and find banks to write student loans.
- Organizational Mentorship
- Connections to the MIT campus
- Impact Measurement Validation and Support
- Media Visibility and Exposure
- Grant Funding

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