Five Hundred
Lessons learned from more than a decade of publishing Censemaking.
education & learning
Education and learning
To Teach, To Learn: How Committed Are We to Both?
Our learning institutions are not set up for actual learning. Look at the costs and outcomes and we might design them differently.
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Learning Myths & The Learner
The idea that we have a learning ‘style’ is a myth; let’s stop perpetuating it and engage learners instead. While I was teaching in a program for young social entrepreneurs one of the learners approach me and said they were struggling with some of the reading materials and discussions because they were a ‘visual learner.’
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Futures for Education, Learning and Work
The shift to online education by universities is going to be a big experiment in learning and survival and it’s not clear that they will achieve either.
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Learning As Our Outcome
You knew it would come . This week we started to see accusations and conflict peek through what had been a largely harmonious, if somewhat fragmented, response to the global pandemic. What was at first behind the scenes now took centre stage. Governments, citizens, public health officials, and scientists are starting to point the fingers
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Live Learning
Our models of organized learning could benefit from the disruption we’re seeing across society…if we allow it. The conceit of traditional learning models is that past experience informs present understanding to guide current and future thought and actions. This is so taken for granted that it’s hardly challenged; it is the essence of ‘received wisdom’
Learning to Learn
The ‘pandemic pause’ has created much interest in online education when what we need is real learning. Many of us might be looking to boost our skills and knowledge base as work slows down for many sectors (or stops altogether). The term ‘learning’ is popping up everywhere as education institutions, corporate services, and professional associations
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The Complexity Cop-out
Complexity introduces significant challenges for humans. One of the unexpected ones is that it’s been used to hide from difficult problems. Our understanding of complexity has come a long way, but like many things, a little knowledge can be a real problem. A few years back I was facilitating a public health event that was
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Here to There: Navigating Through the Unknown
VIsionary evaluation is about putting data to our principles and actions and seeing where we’ve come from and where we’re going at the same time. This article explores what it is and what we need to do.
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A Changing Future for Education and Learning
As long as there have been people, there’s been education. The goal of learning remains, while the methods are changing. The way education and training is delivered has changed dramatically in the past 20 years moving from mostly face-to-face, classroom-based models to ones that might include an online component or be digital altogether. Some new
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