One of the best things I did over the lockdown was join the GLDC weekly chat. Hosted by John HInchcliffe, I was invited by Nick Ribeiro and it’s been a great place to meet people I didn’t know and connect with people in many different spheres, countries and continents. One of those is Mitch Moldofsky.… Read More Fraud
After the defeat of England by Italy last night, there were some highly offensive tweets made about some of the England players. One tweet I saw was picked up by some Twitter users who found the person’s Instagram account, as well as their LinkedIn accounts. The person concerned deleted the tweet, but made no apology,… Read More Anti-social media
“That’s not the way we do learning here” Anon In a conversation about learning in the organisation a discussion happened around social, collaborative and peer to peer. The ‘we’ here matters most – just because ‘you’ don’t do it that way, don’t assume everyone else doesn’t.
I saw another example of solving the wrong problem recently. Cheating in online exams appears to be widespread at the University of Auckland with claims students sitting online exams are gathering on group calls to discuss the answers. Work is being undertaken to detect and penalise cheating. In a digitally enabled world that we have… Read More Examinations
The BBC Annual Report was published yesterday. It’ll get lots of noise and discussion over the pay of its top stars, or the lack of union flags. The bit I was interested in was the people section, and (rather obviously) the learning and development section. It’s reproduced in full below: We are also building a… Read More Tired
Lost and Desperate 