Categories: "Learning" or "Assessment" or "Connectivism" or "OCC2007" or "Designing Online Courses" or "Evaluation" or "FOE2007" or "Large scale programmes" or "Learning Ecosystem" or "Learning Objects" or "Learning to learn"
Mar
19
Flipping the classroom
Learning, Context, Management & Implementation, Change Management 3 feedbacks » 15806 viewsThere's a lot of thought flying around the web at the moment about the concept of "flipping the classroom" - using the internet to provide pre-classroom lectures and the classroom to embed that knowledge through exercises, coaching and discussion.
Key… more »
Mar
01
“If your only tool is a hammer, then every problem starts to look like a nail.” Maslow
L&D Departments need a toolkit that can support a wider range of learning activities than most L&D departments are currently concerned with.
Some of the… more »
Feb
26
Often, when we think about the idea of introducing ICT into the classroom (whether in schools or in the workplace), we are simply thinking about ways what is happening inside the classroom.
In these cases the role of the teacher or tutor tends to rem… more »
Feb
23
The changing face of learning & development (70:20:10)
Not yet categorised, Learning, Designing Online Courses, ROI 2 feedbacks » 8047 viewsLearning and Development is changing. As an organisational function, it is having to become far closer to Operational delivery and to Internal Communications than to Human Resources.
As a concept, organisations are beginning to realise that Learning… more »
Feb
09
Part of the #purposed series of blog posts. For more see: http://purposed.org.uk/
In a recent Twitter post I said:
I think the purpose of education is to develop a creative society that will ask difficult questions.
Note, I've made no mention… more »
Feb
07
"Developing a learning ecosystem" - Google's Sudhir Giri at ALT-C 2010
Not yet categorised, Learning Ecosystem Send feedback » 3556 viewsI saw Sudhir at an earlier conference last year, where he covered how Google is exploring new ways of supporting learning internally.
The video below is basically the same talk, but from the ALT-C conference.
Two key things that came out for me:… more »
Feb
04
Early stages yet, but I'm working on a conceptual model for the 21st Century LMS.
The diagram below shows the high-level view. There's a lot of detail that sits underneath it, which I'm not able to publish yet.
Any comments very gratefully welcome… more »
Jan
27
I attended the quirky, but interesting Be Bettr conference a couple of weeks ago.
The most fascinating presentation (of the ones I watched) was that from Mohit Midha, who heads up Blue Duck Education, which produces Mangahigh.com
MangaHigh is "one… more »
Dec
23
A quick look back at what's been on my mind over the past year:
January
What should elearning look like?
Definition of a learning ecosystem
Youtube as a learning ecosystem
Communities of practice and learning ecosystems
Mini-Moodlemoot at Learn… more »
Dec
08
I've been a fan of Cathy Moore's Action Mapping approach to learning design for a long time.I've also been a long-time advocate of the idea of separating our courses from our content by making more use of Content Management Systems (CMS).Cathy Mo… more »
