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Do your students have
what they need to create
the future they want?
Enter EdgeMakers
We have translated innovation into the teachable
capacities that empower people to change the world

The EdgeMakers Learning
Experience
EdgeMakers is the world’s leading authority on innovation
learning. Our core framework covers five disciplines:
CREATIVITY AND
INNOVATION
STORYTELLING AND
CHANGEMAKING
DESIGN
EDGE
CHARACTER AND
COLLABORATION
ENTREPRENEURS
AND STARTUPS
GENERATION OF IDEAS
AMPLIFICATION OF IDEAS
REALIZATION IDEAS
Our portfolio includes two additional courses: Digital Fluency
and Sustainability and Innovation.
DIGITAL
FLUENCY
SUSTAINABILITY
AND INNOVATION
EdgeMakers Features
Project and challenge-based, hands-on learning
A community of learners networked to reach out to each other
through social media
Learning materials that can be in print, blended or full digital
formats
LMS compatible
Flexible, modular architecture designed to fit into a variety of
schedules
We are optimized for two and four year institutions of higher
education as well as secondary school and post-graduate career/
technical tracks.
EdgeMakers is a unique and compelling solution for educators seeking
to offer meaningful learning experiences that lead to the acquisition of
21st century relevant skills.

Three Gaps
EdgeMakers addresses three fundamental gaps:
What typical schools offer
One
What the new world of
work demands
EdgeMakers integrates the disciplines of creativity, design, digital
fluency, collaboration, and entrepreneurship. It is a school’s
answer to question of what employers want.
A growing wish for more
innovators and entrepreneurs
Two
The lack of ways to learn
the “how” of innovation
Innovation is not a bumper sticker or a mood. Rather, it comes
from practical learning experiences. EdgeMakers addresses the
needs of the student who asks, “show me how.”
The complex problems
facing global civil society
Three
Resources available to
address our challenges
EdgeMakers weaves social challenges within its learning
experience. It answers society’s need to link purpose-driven
learning with the responsibilities of citizenship.
We believe that to be successful in work as well as in
life, you need to know how be an effective innovator
and entrepreneur

Course Detail
EdgeMakers is a new category of innovation learning ready to
empower those who want the skills, inspiration and tools to
explore the edge as the new innovators and entrepreneurs
that the world needs and to lay the groundwork for their future
success as they find the edge for themselves.
Essentials of Innovation
The Essentials of Innovation course is a springboard for cultivating
capacities to grasp the nature of our changing world, exercise
judgement, and act on opportunity.
This course features lessons from our master courses in Creativity
and Innovation, Design, Character and Collaboration, Digital Fluency,
Storytelling, Change Making, Entrepreneurship and Startups.
Throughout the course, students will:
learn how to tap into and nurture their creativity
grow capacities for innovation, storytelling, and change making
gain experience with multimedia creation tools and an
understanding of the nuances of social media for marketing,
networking, and learning
learn by doing, thinking critically, making, designing and
interacting with others
use hands-on, project-based learning to make entrepreneurial
ideas real
Success
Bright
Development
titude
ocus
Insight
esearch
Build
Build
Focus
Creativity
Challenge
Social Change
Competitive
Goals
Communication
History Expertise Technology
Observation
We are expanding our
Strategy
Aptitude
portfolio and developing
Make
Interaction Concept
Brilliance new Morality courses, available
Activism Summer 2017.
Culture
Knowledge
System
A
Ideas
V
Adap
Vi
Intuitio

Digital Fluency
Digital Fluency is the capacity to navigate the digital sphere in
appropriate, responsible, and effective ways. The Digital Fluency
course will help students develop the capacity for agility and the
ability to transfer existing knowledge to learning new technologies;
to grow their social capital; and cultivate a rich, diverse, personal
learning environment and network.
EdgeMakers Digital Fluency course teaches students to:
better understand the historical role technology and media
have played in economic, educational, and social change
use technology and digital media to further creative thinking
and amplify ideas and innovations
become critical consumers and producers of digital
media and information
develop skills of sense-making and content curation in the
digital world
use digital media and technology to identify trends
and opportunities
become knowledgeable of social learning tools as tools for
learning, creating, communicating, and doing business
cultivate an awareness of the nuances of the social, ethical,
political, cultural, and administrative issues often associated
with technology & media
chieve
ision
tation
Tools
ews
n
Skills
Causes
Motivation
Follow us Flexibility on social media
Awareness
Quality
Storytelling
Value
Character
Change
Collaboration
Product
Analysis
Educate
View
Develop
Clever Genuine
Critical Thinking
Thrive
Business
Future
Consistent
Foresee
Connection View
Learning Inform
Success Process
Compassion
Smart Blended

Share our passion and sense of urgency.
Join us!
What is an edge?
• The seam between traditional disciplines that
generates new ideas and insights
• The moving horizon between what exists and
what is possible
• The ultimate source of competitiveness
• What is fresh and new, as in the “cutting
edge”
Who is an EdgeMaker?
• One who is able to exploit a position on the
edge to achieve the creation of extraordinary
value.
EdgeMakers is not just a series of lessons, it is
a learning experience that transforms lives
EdgeMakers is not just a set of courses, it is a
global movement.
Educating for Innovation
For more information, please contact us:
www.edgemakers.com · partnerships@edgemakers.com · 415-561-2420
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