“I’ve often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it’s inside a frame.” Abbas Kiarostami – Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer I understand the need for a filmmaker to create a frame; their purpose is to capture what they need inside… Read More Framing the issue
I almost didn’t write a blog post for today. I’ve been busy with reading and writing, meetings and conversations, designing and creating and realised, late in the day, that I didn’t have a post written. Would it matter if I didn’t write a post today? Probably not, but only in terms of today. What it… Read More Almost didn’t
The next part of asynchronous design I mentioned previously was about questions. Questions are simple to fix aren’t they? Craft a FAQ document and away you go. This is where we get much learning design so very wrong. The worst examples of poor design mean we have FAQ documents that: Go on for dozens of… Read More Asynchronous questions
Yesterday, I saw my friend Sukh Pabial has been recruiting for a new venture. What was different was the way he recruited – no CVs, just a cover letter to meet 3 questions he set for the applicants. I’ve mentioned that we need to think about flexible working and flexible learning differently – I’m interested… Read More Flexible recruitment
I’ve mentioned asynchronous within learning a few times and I’m not convinced that there’s a clear understanding of how fundamental a shift this will make for learning design. The idea of blending (mixing face to face/online meeting with additional elements) is pretty well known across the learning profession now but many failures exist in the… Read More It’s not just ‘sticking it online’
Lost and Desperate 