Eliminate educational language

This is the next weekly blog post from my Learning Live session a short while ago. The session was about developing smaller, more workable ideas under the banner of my 50 big ideas. This post, like the others, is a stream of consciousness – I’m writing this post whilst looking at the output from the… Read More Eliminate educational language

Require Subject Matter Experts to design

This is the 2nd in a series of 5 weekly posts that are following up from my session at Learning Live this year. This post is all about number 41 on my list of 50 big ideas. The big idea says: Require Subject Matter Experts to design and deliver learning support There are a few… Read More Require Subject Matter Experts to design

Make learning resources entirely visible

This post is the first of the 50 small ideas from my session at Learning Live last week. If you’ve not seen about the session, you may wish to have a read of a summary of the event here before continuing. It’s also definitely worth your time reading from a participant perspective too. Number 11 of… Read More Make learning resources entirely visible

Curate’s Egg

I delivered a session at Learning Live this week which (I hope) wasn’t the traditional curate’s egg – partly bad with some redeeming features. It seemed well received based on the Twitter backchannel and kind people I respect said very humbling things to me. I wanted the session to be different and used a 20/20/20 split;… Read More Curate’s Egg

But what is informal learning?

This is a simultaneous blog post, published in tandem with a post by Rachel Burnham. I’ve been involved in a few conversations recently talking through the approach that I’m taking and a common question that people are asking me is about the use of the word informal. My definition is to place the learning that… Read More But what is informal learning?