The Quality Conundrum in Evaluation
One of the central pillars of evaluation is assessing the quality of something, often described as its merit. Along with
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education
Complex problems and social learning
Adaptation, evolution, innovation, and growth all require that we gain new knowledge and apply it to our circumstances, or learn.
Read moreBullying, the market for education and the damaged quest for learning
A recent study found looked into the experience of cyberbullying by university professors at the hands of their students. This disturbing
Read moreThe Myth of Fast-tracking Learning
In a quest for getting more, faster we pursue strategies that aim to compress and challenge the physics of time. Education
Read moreThe urban legends of learning (and other inconvenient truths)
Learning styles, technology-driven teaching, and self-direction are all concepts that anyone interested in education should be familiar with, yet the
Read moreAsking Better and More Beautiful Questions
Beautiful answers require beautiful (and better) questions and Warren Berger’s new book looks at this very phenomenon of inquiry and
Read more“If You Build It..”: A Reflection on A Social Innovation Story
If You Build it is documentary about a social innovation project aimed at cultivating design skills with youth to tackle
Read moreDevelopmental Evaluation and Mindfulness
Developmental evaluation is focused on real-time decision making for programs operating in complex, changing conditions, which can tax the attentional
Read moreEvaluation, Evidence and Moving Beyond the Tyranny of ‘I Think’
Good evidence provides a foundation for decision-making in programs that is dispassionate, comparable and open to debate and view, yet
Read moreDesign Thinking, Design Making
Designing and thinking
Critics of design thinking suggest that it forgets making while advocates suggest that it extends itself beyond the traditional constraints of design’s focus on the brief. What separates the two is still the implications associated with making something and the question: can we be good designer thinkers without being design makers? This post looks at the relationship between design thinking and making.