--- description: Free online courses for refugees, how ISIS became the world's deadliest tech startup and more. title: Connecting the World's Refugees to Online Education image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Innovation](/tag/innovation/) ## Innovation Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Connecting the World's Refugees to Online Education by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 21, 2016 4:00 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 21, 2016 4:00 PM CUT **1\.** [**Refugees can now take free online courses at Harvard (and lots of other places).**](http://news.trust.org//item/20160620204513-diyz5/ "undefined") By Sebastien Malo at the Thomson Reuters Foundation **2\.** [**How ISIS became the world’s deadliest tech startup.**](http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/how-isis-became-the-worlds-deadliest-tech-start-up "undefined") By Nick Bilton in Vanity Fair Hive **3\.** [**Could rebooting soil across Africa improve food security?**](https://psmag.com/how-can-african-farms-get-better-soil-208d50bcbd16#.emkcbjbl5 "undefined") By Nathan Collins in Pacific Standard **4\.** [**Missed diagnoses cost lives and billions of dollars. Here’s a surprisingly easy fix.**](http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2016/06/15/the-team-sport-of-diagnosis-a-culture-shift-can-reduce-missed-diagnoses/ "undefined") By David E. Newman-Toker in the Health Care Blog **5\.** [**Here’s why we need a Yelp for funeral decisions.**](https://www.socialworkhelper.com/2016/06/20/end-life-yelp/ "undefined") By Daniel Ortiz Reti in Social Work Helper  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4376341/connecting-the-worlds-refugees-to-online-education/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4376341/connecting-the-worlds-refugees-to-online-education/"},"headline":"Connecting the World's Refugees to Online Education","datePublished":"2016-06-21T16:00:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:52.011Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4376341/connecting-the-worlds-refugees-to-online-education/","keywords":["Innovation","Food","Refugees","ISIS","health"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4376341/connecting-the-worlds-refugees-to-online-education/","name":"Connecting the World's Refugees to Online Education"}}]}] ```