Tag: blended learning
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How deep is your green?
in PedagogyOne of the dilemmas of those advocating a more sustainable lifestyle is about how radical the change should be. Is it enough to buy sustainably? Will the buying habits of individuals have a positive impact on the Doomsday clock? The view of experts such as Dr Sylvia Lorek is that legislation on the issue of…
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Modelling sustainability
Modelling sustainable behaviour is a powerful strategy for affecting those around you. Listen to Diana Solovyova from eastern Russia as she talks about three different aspects of being sustainable. As a professional ornithologist who does extensive fieldwork in the tundra and elsewhere, she is only too aware of the effects of waste packaging in the…
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The goal of EfS in vocational skill training
In my last post I painted a rather bleak picture of where we are now in terms of sustainability (two and a half minutes away from the midnight of catastrophe to be exact). So what is to be done? Can anything be done? What can one individual or organisation do that is worthwhile?
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Sustainable home-based business
Many use their household skills as the basis for a home-based business. It could be a Bed and Breakfast, with or without AirBnB. It could be the manufacture and sale of country food grown on their own land. It could also be a farm market or a small cafe in a little ceramics gallery. This…
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Automating teaching in Denmark
in PedagogyAttending the Skolemesse (Schools Exhibition) in Aarhus last Thursday I was struck by the explosion of books in the exhibition hall. Danish teachers have had their preparation time reduced in the most recent education reform. Yes! Danish school teachers are used to having designated preparation time. What seems to have happened is that there has been…
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How much blended learning?
in PedagogySomeone asked me an interesting question recently: Why do you think there is so little take up of blended learning in UK universities? And that the little that there is, is so bad? The short answer is I don’t know. The long answer needs to start by defining blended learning and by asking whether it is…