Do you own a micro-enterprise (9 employees or less)? Could you use some help? If so, I would appreciate your help in finding out what would be important when deciding whether or not to take on a foreign intern. Maybe you have never considered it, in which case I would be interested to know why [...]
The digital handshake is a critical point in any online interaction. Handled well, it will lead to successful and rich communication. Handled badly, it will take a long time to recover and get group process on track. I am thankful to Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay for this evocative name for a vital part of [...]
In relation to the PLP Connected Coaching course I now need to address the self-assessment rubric in a bit more detail. The strength-based approach means that I should concentrate on strengths rather than deficiencies and while I don’t feel that I am unduly modest, I must admit that I am not entirely comfortable when applying [...]
When you are a course facilitator it is always salutary to go to the other side of the table once in a while. Some of my work involves being a tutor for The Consultants-E, mostly on very intensive 20 week courses. It can be quite difficult for working adults to sustain that level of commitment [...]
Teaching as a design science Do you see yourself as a designer? According to Diana Laurillard, that’s exactly how teachers should be seeing themselves and she had a proposal for systemizing the process of engineering learning experiences. Diana Laurillard’s IATEFL 2012 plenary was making the case for the collation of proven pedagogical patterns across all [...]
I’ve always wondered how politicians such as Tony Benn were able to keep such copious diaries while in office. It is when I’m busy that I don’t have time to blog and the fact that this is the first blog post of the year is testament to the deadlines that I have been trying to [...]
Basic assumptions Earlier in the year I was speculating about how to implement a mobile exercise using one of the many augmented reality apps that have appeared in the last couple of years. Before I could implement I wanted a smartphone so that I could experiment and this finally happened in June. Although I bought [...]
Just started the Mobimooc and intend to see it through! Unlike my abortive attempts with connectivism. So now I will make progress in mobile learning! It’s a pic’n’mix course (dear old Woolworths how we miss you) where the determined track out their own learning path while the rest cherry pick. And my the cherry harvest [...]
As I facilitate the transfer of the VITAE course to a new project network I can sense that what the project partners expect from me are a series of presentations, articles and activities. These would then be seamlessly transfered to their institutions. Instead I give them learning outcomes and a template as carried out in Denmark [...]
Catching up on old New Scientists recently I was interested to read yet another article on human happiness. This one by Dan Jones concluded that the evolutionary purpose of happiness is to enable and reward learning. So learning makes us happy and we learn better when we are happy. If true, this has many implications [...]
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