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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The Kragerø Open Online Education Declaration 2014
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…
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Transformative Learning Recipe
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…
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Promoting entrepreneurship
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…
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Global collaboration: the great motivator
Conversation between me, Anne and Amy Musone, a third grade teacher at York Elementary School in Pennsylvania on the topic of a global collaboration between Amy’s students and a 6th grade class at my local school. Anne: I have initiated and collaborated on several very different global collaborations over the years, ever since pre-Internet days.…
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Does Government funding sap motivation?
I just completed the Coursera MOOC on the History and Future of HE with the wonderful Cathy Davidson. All MOOCs have to have an identifiable front persona even though it’s impossible that any of these courses could be the work of only one person and to be fair, in this course Davidson often showed us who…
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Learning Designer
Since I am a partner in two projects planning to design short online courses I was interested to try out a new tool last week, the Learning Designer. This was introduced through a short sharp MOOC, the International Learning Design Challenge, which was over in a week! The Learning Design tool makes the planning of…
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Digital tool choice
When I started tutoring the online version of the Certificate for Teaching Languages with Technology for The Consultants-E in 2010, it was fairly simple in terms of tool choice. For each digital task there were two or three mainstream tools to choose from and they were PC-based. Wiki/ Wikispaces, Pbwiki, WetPaint Blog/ Blogger, WordPress, Edublogs…
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Global Collaborations
The title sounds grand but this is about how you can make global collaboration an everyday part of the life of a classroom as and when it is appropriate. I was asked to do a 5-minute talk (via Skype as it happens) to a group of about 200 trainee teachers in Israel. Since their first…
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Course Building Tools
in PedagogyClick on image for larger version. What choices are available for building a Knowledge Building course on entrepreneurial skills? For an online learning event or process focused on promoting entrepreneurial skills it seems logical to plan this using structured or staged self-directed learning (SSDL), including elements of Knowledge Building (KB). Are there any tools available…
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The SSDL Paradox
(Click on images to enlarge) In the dCCDFLITE project, our aim is to develop a course that promotes entrepreneurial skills by bringing together IT students and technical employees to work together on identifying an innovative idea as a business plan. We will develop the course using dCCD. We will also introduce participants to CCD as…
