Coaching connected learning across borders
I can support learning in online and blended course development (often through EU projects)
Absolutely Intercultural
I co-host this podcast about all things intercultural with monthly episodes. On Spotify and Apple podcasts.
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diversophy – intercultural game
Think you know Denmark? Standard and refugee versions of the game for Denmark in the diversophy series.
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En-ROADS for understanding
Solve the climate problem by pulling policy levers! Workshop for students to raise awareness of climate policy levers and local action.
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Latest posts
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Assessment 3.0
Mark Barnes has discovered a big problem in education and believes he can solve it. That is the aim of the book Assessment 3.0 sub-titled Throw out your gradebook and inspire learning. The problem is that grades get in the way of learning and are not even very good at reporting on the amount of…
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Online course: The first 24 hours
I recently started a new online course as moderator and documented the first 24 hours of activity. Read from bottom to top. Does anything need explaining?
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Online facilitation: Best practice
I just received this email from two new online tutors: Could you please give us some best practice. We start today and maybe we should take care of something specially. My response: I am starting a second iteration of a well-established course on training online moderators in the role of tutor…
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Free book on online learning
If you would like some tips on online moderation then you may want to download the book ‘Online Learning’ while it is still free. Every cloud has a silver lining so they say. My websites were mostly out of action in the last quarter of 2014 and so I started posting on Linked In on…
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Tracking quality in online courses
Since I went freelance in 2010 most of my work in European projects has been on the issue of monitoring quality of the online course that we are developing. So I thought I would wrap up this tour of online learning with a few observations on how this has been done. Tracking quality should be…
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Online Learning: The tools for the job
So how come I have been able to write 7 posts on online learning and only now in post 8 start discussing the tools? The TPACK model suggests that content knowledge, pedagogy and technical skills are all necessary for a successful online course. Actually the model is directed at learning in general and not just…
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Designing an Online Course
in PedagogyHow do you go about developing an online course? As with any formal guided learning path, the starting point should always be the learning outcomes. What will your students be able to do as a result of the course? There are many ways of determining how outcomes will be met. Here are four: 1. In…
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Creating an Online Task
In the M-HOUSE project we are targeting home-based adults to explore the business skills they have from their experience of running a household over many years. In the same way that reframing the work of hotel attendants as exercise actually helped them to lose weight, we hope that reframing the often-undervalued work of running a…
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What online learning looks like
When we ask content experts to design online learning, the default course will look something like this: Content (article, book, video lecture) + Test (quiz or essay) Content (article, book, video lecture) + Test (quiz or essay) Content (article, book, video lecture) + Test (quiz or essay) Content (article, book, video lecture) + Test (quiz…
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Online participants are individuals
I am often charged with quality evaluation of online courses. What would you think if, as part of that evaluation, I asked the tutors the following: After your first week of tutoring, could you tell me one fact about each participant if I gave you a list of their names but without looking at the…
