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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Do we have to be social online?
Where many online courses are weak it seems to me is in neglecting the social aspect. Highlighted on its own like that it can seem rather irrelevant. I have found that many new online students just want to ‘get on with it’ and go straight to the content. Come to think of it, if there…
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Is online learning any good?
I had an online student once who told me at the beginning of a 20-week online course that eLearning was clearly going to be an inferior experience compared to face-to-face learning. Many people feel that way, partly because for most people eLearning is unknown whereas they have been doing face-to-face learning since they were 5…
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Online learning: State of the art
Tell us about the state of the art of online learning in 20 minutes, the CCD-FLITE project asked me as part of our latest meeting in Lisbon in October. My reaction? If you had asked 15 different people to do that talk, you would have got 15 very different talks. Ie don’t take what I…
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Development of an online module
M-HOUSE course Part 2 How do you transform an idea into an actual online module? There are many ways of doing this but below I can share the process we went through recently in the M-HOUSE project as we prepared our online course for its first pilot run starting in November 2014. The aim of…
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Building Key Learning Situations
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.…
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Business Skills Explorer: 3 free places!
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…
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Visible Learning in Practice
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.
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Don’t uproot our Beautiful Tree – Why voucherisation is not the answer
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…
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RSCON5: Have Erasmus+, will travel
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…
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Coaching MOOC
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…
