education

A Changing Future for Education and Learning

October 23, 2019October 21, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 517 Views 0 Comments Coursera, design, education, learning, mobile phones

As long as there have been people, there’s been education. The goal of learning remains, while the methods are changing.

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Learning: Bites, Snacks, and Meals

September 4, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 389 Views Chris Brogan, communications, education, knowledge translation, learning, media, publishing, social media, teaching, technology

Media communications is trending toward generating content in small forms. What does small ‘snackable’ content mean for learning big things?

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The Quality Conundrum in Evaluation

November 16, 2018June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 191 Views AEA, education, learning, measurement, Oregon, quality, quality improvement, school, standardized tests, teaching

One of the central pillars of evaluation is assessing the quality of something, often described as its merit. Along with

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Complex problems and social learning

September 14, 2017September 14, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 314 Views education, goals, groups, knowledge exchange, knowledge management, learning, learning organization, organizational development, organizational learning, social, social networks

Adaptation, evolution, innovation, and growth all require that we gain new knowledge and apply it to our circumstances, or learn.

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Bullying, the market for education and the damaged quest for learning

September 11, 2014September 11, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 315 Views bullying, Canada, cyberbullying, education, empathy, John Oliver, knowledge integration, knowledge translation, learning, Macleans, marketing, mental health, mindfulness, Ontario, Paul Verhaeghe, post-secondary education, psychology, student debt, systems thinking, teaching, university

A recent study found looked into the experience of cyberbullying by university professors at the hands of their students. This disturbing

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The Myth of Fast-tracking Learning

August 7, 2014August 7, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 136 Views Anders Ericsson, education, expertise, leadership, learning, MOOC, Timothy Ferris

In a quest for getting more, faster we pursue strategies that aim to compress and challenge the physics of time. Education

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The urban legends of learning (and other inconvenient truths)

July 28, 2014August 8, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 205 Views design, design thinking, education, educational design, evidence, learning, mindfulness, research, science, sensemaking, systems thinking, theory of change

Learning styles, technology-driven teaching, and self-direction are all concepts that anyone interested in education should be familiar with, yet the

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Asking Better and More Beautiful Questions

March 12, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 376 Views book, book review, CENSE Research + Design, community psychology, design, design thinking, education, Google, inquiry, Larry Page, learning, mindful organizations, mindfulness, Montessori, poverty, psychology, questions, Sergey Brin, social innovation, strategic intent, strategy, systems thinking, Warren Berger

Beautiful answers require beautiful (and better) questions and Warren Berger’s new book looks at this very phenomenon of inquiry and

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“If You Build It..”: A Reflection on A Social Innovation Story

February 10, 2014February 10, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 282 Views architecture, community engagement, design, design thinking, education, Emily Pilloton, evaluation, Hart's Ladder of Participation, learning, social impact, social innovation, youth engagement

If You Build it is documentary about a social innovation project aimed at cultivating design skills with youth to tackle

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Developmental Evaluation and Mindfulness

January 20, 2014December 3, 2018 Cameron D. Norman 336 Views attention, CENSE Research + Design, complexity, decision making, developmental evaluation, education, emergence, evaluability assessment, health, innovation, Karl Weick, learning organization, metacognition, mindfulness, organizational mindfulness, sensemaking, social innovation

Developmental evaluation is focused on real-time decision making for programs operating in complex, changing conditions, which can tax the attentional

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