Coaching connected learning across borders

This is a plea for the mindful use of simple English. I recently had a short assignment which was called English teaching but in reality turned out to be a very tough assignment not really concerned with learning English. The clients were a local professional company which offers services to local businesses in my part…

In the middle of a financial crisis there’s high graduate unemployment so maybe it’s a good idea for graduates of any discipline to find out more about how business works? They can do this through sponsored internships but in the podcast show I’ve just put together we hear about asking the interns to also follow…

Here are two interesting trends: 1.    Many countries in Europe and beyond expect much public sector activity to happen digitally within a very short time. Eg 2014 in Denmark and 2016 in the UK. This means that even mundane activities such as registering a change of address, registering your child for school, paying your taxes…

So you’re at college and decided to do an internship? Good. Then you decided to do the internship abroad? Great! Finally you decided to do your internship in a SME so that you could have easier access to the entrepreneur behind it all? Inspired! But do you process all that experience just by being there?…

I am not being New Age in the title of this post. Holistic refers here to e-learning courses which have been planned not just from a pedagogical point of view but also from a business point of view. The UnderstandIT EU-supported project, which has just officially finished, sought to test whether the intensive planning process…

Today is the last day of the UnderstandIT project.  So what have we achieved? The main objective of the project was to find out whether it was possible to transfer the very intensive concurrent design approach to the online medium.  ConCurrent Design involves gathering all relevant players, in this case for e-learning development, in one…

As part of the Edstartup 101 course I need to set out the edstartup idea I am working on at the moment. So here goes: The Idea: We will offer an opportunity to implement digital work-based training enabling effective learning through social learning, informal learning and personalized learning paths. It is targeted at organisations that…

There is a plethora of new companies claiming to be offering something new and effective in learning using digital tools. What is the state of play in the ed start-up world? Of the list of nine ed startups listed at http://101.edstartup.net/space/  I had already heard of 5 of them and am in fact taking a…

There is a shortage of qualified Chinese teachers in rural areas because trained Chinese teachers will prefer the higher salary and better facilities of an urban area. The gap year solution is one way of giving rural children the opportunity to learn English which is fast becoming essential in China. But what would it be…

I have just become aware of the EdStartUp course which started at the end of August and which I’d very much like to participate in. As I have just started my association with I Go To China, a social enterprise addressing the shortage of English teachers in rural China, the idea of combining the provision…