Coaching connected learning across borders

Well actually I mean 7.30 to 3.30 but that doesn’t have any ring to it. So the 4-week lockout of Danish school teachers is finally over after the government intervened with some emergency legislation. And the result is as follows: From August 2014 Danish teachers Must be on school premises from 7.30 to 3.30 Lose…

If you fancy an all-expenses paid trip to Brussels in September then why not try the X Challenge, a competition in which you carry out a series of challenges which give you a taster of the popular Unikey ‘Unleash your Business Potential’ online course? There were many more would-be participants than places on the latest…

I am never sure whether I qualify as an entrepreneur as I only sell myself, a few ideas and some skills rather than a concrete product or software. However I wanted to go to the Entrepreneur event in Aarhus on April 18th for many reasons, not least because the Chaos Pilots, the school for social…

Management of foreign interns: Interested in taking on a foreign intern in your SME? Or maybe you have already had one or two interns and are interested in learning more about how to motivate them and let them meet their potential? The UniKey project can offer you a free two week online course requiring about…

Just because you speak a lesser spoken language you can no longer assume that that what you write will be confined to your small language group. Not so long ago, Marie Krarup, a member of the nationalistic Danish People’s Party was invited to New Zealand as part of a parliamentary delegation learning about the New…

What are seniors looking for in a language book? Are their requirements any different to the rest of the population? I carried out a quick survey of a currently running class on English for Tourists aimed at this sector to find out more. The word book here refers to a paper version. What the group…

Det mest spændende under lockout er … at der sker absolut intet, heller ikke fra forældrenes side. Lærerne er kede af at miste deres klar arbejdsrammer og  af at skulle arbejde flere timer uden mere i  løn. KL (og regeringen) vil have frihed til at bestemme over lærerne. Forældrene klarer sig på en eller andet…

Connected from the Start is a great read! If anybody doubts the value of getting first graders to tweet, blog and Skype then this will confound and delight you. In fact it is a skillfully told story of one teacher’s digital journey and, because her raw materials involve mainly six year olds, it is full…

How do you evaluate an online course? As the leader of the quality assessment work package for the European UniKey project, this was a prime concern. There are efforts being made to standardize evaluation for example through the SEVAQ+ tool which recognizes that there are many factors to evaluate in an online course over and…

Så truer Lockouten og vi ser frem til måske flere uger uden undervisning. Tilfældigvis er TED prisen i 2013 lige blevet uddelt til Prof Sugata Mitra. Han mener at alle børn ikke bare er villig til at lære i samarbejde med andre, men derudover at, børn er i stand til selv at styr deres egen…