Coaching connected learning across borders

M-HOUSE course: part 1 Every course needs to be built on Learning Outcomes but where do these LOs come from? In the M-HOUSE project an 8 module course was built on the basis of 8 Key learning Situations (KLS), an approach which had been successfully used to build the UniKey course aimed at university students.…

We (the M-HOUSE project) still have a few places on our free online course starting next week for people running a household and thinking of how their household skills might be able to transfer to a business context. Contact me directly either in a message or as a comment to this post if you would…

I am embedding this post from NoTosh here from Facebook, partly as an experiment to see how embedding Facebook posts works and partly because I love the graphic: Post by NoTosh.

I came to James Tooley via Sugata Mitra. They both work in the same university. Tooley and Mitra are connected by their recognition of the problem that good teachers do not like to teach in poor, remote areas. Both come up with different solutions to that problem. Tooley’s book, The Beautiful Tree, proposes a voucher system to support the…

Thanks to RSCON5 for allowing me to present the outline of the new Erasmus+ program which allows teachers, trainers and others involved in education and training to be funded to attend residential courses in the EU. The recording of the 25 minute session is here. And my slides are below:   Have Erasmus+, will travel…

I have been coming out recently as a MOOC junkie. I have lost count of the number I have signed up to and even of those that I have completed which of course is a much smaller number. The latest one I have completed stands above many of the others. Coaching Teachers: Promoting Changes that…

Very proud to have been a part of the group which created the Kragerø Open Online Education Declaration 2014: The Kragerø Open Online Education Declaration was conceived and signed by a group of 14 Nordic experts related to the field, attending Campus NooA‘s workshop on online education at the Hasselholmen Island from May 28 to…

I have just returned from a 3-day sojourn on an idyllic Norwegian island where with 16 other people we ‘worked’ to find ways to bring Campus NooA to a higher level. I put the word ‘worked’ in inverted commas because it didn’t feel like work at all. After a while the experience reminded me of a series…

How to promote entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship in employees and graduates? Challenges: How to promote graduate workplace skills How to promote knowledge transfer between business and higher education? Could a course in entrepreneurship getting students and companies working together on business plans help? And what is the best way of developing this? In the FLITE project…