A Wider Lens on Learning
Learning in times of turbulence requires much more than lessons or courses – it requires new systems. I’ve long contended
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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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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.
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 moreDefining the New Designer
It’s been suggested that anyone who shapes the world intentionally is a designer, however those who train and practice as
Read moreScaling Education: The Absurd Case of the MOOC
The MOOC offers enormous potential to re-shape the way people learn and promoting access to content and expertise that many in this world could have only dreamed of years ago. But the naivete that such learning can be done in an monocultural way without losing something special about the context in which people learn and use what they learn might lead to some expensive lessons.
Read moreMuch Ado About MOOC
It’s fair to imagine that one of the 2013 ‘words of the year‘ will be MOOC (which is not really
Read moreThe Quality Metric in Education
What is quality when we speak of learning? In this third post in series on education and evaluation metrics the issue
Read moreThe Knowledge Metric in Education
Higher education is asking itself some big questions and making substantive changes to the way it sees itself and produces
Read moreThe Job Market Metric In Education
Post-secondary and continuing education is continuing to be rationalized in ways that are transforming the very foundation of the enterprise.
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