Conferencing Remotely
I’m conducting a review of four online conferences to share the design and educational lessons learned from each of them over the next four posts.
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Learning’s Problems
Learning is the key to innovation and resilience and it also presents us with problems. Developmental evaluation, adaptive strategy, and learning organizations are a few of the concepts used to reflect an attitude of responsiveness and innovation. We pivot, flex, adapt, and are resilient — or so we tell ourselves. In some cases we are
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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 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
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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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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Learning: Bites, Snacks, and Meals
Media communications is trending toward generating content in small forms. What does small ‘snackable’ content mean for learning big things? It’s back to school time in many parts of the world and with it a return to a different pace of life. Throughout history we’ve not had many models of structured, intentional learning. Until the
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