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A Wider Lens on Learning

February 2, 2021February 2, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 276 Views brain research, cense academy, craft, deliberative practice, educational design, learning, memory, neuroscience, online learning, organizational learning, post-secondary education, psychology, scott galloway, university

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?

August 11, 2020August 11, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 498 Views education, evaluation, higher education, learning, teachers, teaching, university

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

July 6, 2020July 6, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 782 Views education, online learning, teaching, universities, university

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

September 11, 2014September 11, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 1244 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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Defining the New Designer

August 8, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 864 Views 3D printing, abductive reasoning, Andrew Heaton, Bruce Nussbaum, decision making, design, design education, Design Observer, design practice, design thinking, Dieter Rams, discipline, education, fashion, healthcare, Helen Walters, Herbert Simon, journalism, Mat Hunter, Mayo Clinic, Roger Martin, Rotman Designworks, Sir George Cox, training, transdisciplinary research, UK Design Council, university, UX

It’s been suggested that anyone who shapes the world intentionally is a designer, however those who train and practice as

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Scaling Education: The Absurd Case of the MOOC

July 19, 2013July 19, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 889 Views culture, design thinking, education, educational design, Greece, higher education, innovation, learning, MOOC, research, scale, social innovation, teaching, Thomas Friedman, university

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.

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