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May
08
Creativity, problem finding, education and training
Not yet categorised, Learning, Book 4 feedbacks » 7511 viewsA small crowd of teenagers were gathered in the quiet computer room on a Wednesday afternoon. They watched in astonishment as, on a small square monitor screen appeared a rapid succession of numbers - prime numbers - those numbers that can only be divid… more »
Nov
12
Membership organisations - are they past their sell-by date?
Not yet categorised 8 feedbacks » 4968 views@CraigTaylor74 suggested I write this article, following a brief twitter conversation, during which I stated that I was unlikely to join the ELearning Network or any other paid-for membership organisation.
What I'm going to say below may be… more »
Jul
25
Over Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last week, along with 140 other people, I cycled a total of 240 miles from London to Paris.
Our team of Capita colleagues raised over £5000 for the Big Issue, and we were that over £200,000 has been raised overal… more »
Apr
13
Thanks to Xyleme - the Learning Content Management System provider - for their generous sponsorship of the Big Issue London to Paris Bike Ride.
If you or your company would like to add to the sponsorship fund, please go to the secure fundraising page. more »
Feb
23
The changing face of learning & development (70:20:10)
Not yet categorised, Learning, Designing Online Courses, ROI 2 feedbacks » 8689 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
07
"Developing a learning ecosystem" - Google's Sudhir Giri at ALT-C 2010
Not yet categorised, Learning Ecosystem Send feedback » 3599 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 »
Jan
31
Over the weekend, a couple of people in my Personal Learning Network have mentioned that they would like to learn how to use HTML and CSS.
Users of today's web-applications like Wordpress, Moodle, Google Docs etc will often never see any of the code… more »
Jan
29
National Curriculum Review - initial thoughts
Not yet categorised, Schools, Education reform 4 feedbacks » 6730 viewsThe UK Department for Education recently announced a wholesale review of the curriculum for schools in England.
According to the announcement:
The review will:
replace the current substandard curriculum with one based on the best school systems i… more »
Dec
03
I promised my colleagues at www.censusjobs.co.uk that I would mention their recruitment campaign since they are very kindly sponsoring me for the Big Ticket Bike Ride.On 27 March 2011 the next census in England and Wales takes place. There are over 3… more »
Nov
04
The demise of global conversation
Not yet categorised, Knowledge Management 2 feedbacks » 2706 viewsReading Ewan Macintosh's recent post about time zones killing real global thinking, I realised why some of my posts seem to "take off", while others die quietly. (And, no, I don't think all my posts are equal in quality. It's just that some of the ones I… more »
