Every year I tune in to the Reith Lectures on Radio 4. They provoke new ideas, challenge assumptions and often connect previously disassociated notions and concepts. This year sees a break with tradition, as the lectures have been split into two parts, due to a guest pulling out at the last minute. With the overarching [...]
Entries Tagged as 'online learning'
The Communications Revolution: reflections from the Reith Lectures 2011
June 28th, 2011 No Comments
Tags: communication · learning theory · online facilitation · pedagogy
Collaborative Consumerism, Constructivism and the Currency of New Knowledge
February 8th, 2011 1 Comment
As I walk and drive around our island, I am increasingly filled with despair at the self-centred way that people throw rubbish into our grass verges, hedges and roadsides. Sitting in a traffic jam a few years back, I got out of my car and handed a crisp packet to the front seat passenger (a [...]
Tags: collaboration
De-Innovation
September 3rd, 2010 1 Comment
I’m not sure what to call it really, but I’ll give you an example straight away:
In 2007, after Concorde was taken out of service, the BBC described it as a ‘technological pioneer’ and heralded it’s passing with the following statement: “Concorde’s designers put together an aircraft that was a triumph of innovation”. Of course there [...]
Tags: innovation · online learning · reflection
ULearn09
October 8th, 2009 No Comments
I’m having an absolutely wonderful time here at ULearn09. I’ve just come from a session led by Simon Shaw of St. Albans Meadows Primary School in Australia, who has been talking about how to develop deep thinkers through podcasting. He used two really interesting examples of students work and demonstrated how the use of technologies [...]
Tags: conferences · online learning
Web 2.0 and Teachers’ CPD
April 23rd, 2009 No Comments
I spent Monday evening and most of Tuesday at Brunel University with a group of colleagues from schools, HE, DCFS, GTCE and a variety of other educational organizations, looking at Web 2.0 tools and discussing them in the the context of teacher professional development. I offer this posting as a summary for those on the [...]
Tags: learning technologists · life long learning · online facilitation · professional development
Higher Education hit by the economic downturn
March 10th, 2009 No Comments
I was interested to read THIS ARTICLE yesterday in the New York Times and it got me thinking about how important ULTRAVERSITY … otherwise known as the BA in Learning, Technology and Research Degree … is in providing an affordable option for further study in this time of economic downturn. I decided to take a [...]
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Award Winning Online Communities!
January 23rd, 2009 2 Comments
The IDeA (Improvement and Development Agency) has just won an e-Government National Award for excellence in professionalism and leadership. The award was achieved by the Knowledge Management team, who CORE Education UK has been mentoring and working alongside for the past 2 years. The development and implementation of their Communities of Practice platform, which was [...]
Tags: innovation · life long learning
