I saw a report on student engagement in higher education the other day: More than half of faculty members say they prefer face-to-face classes over hybrid or online delivery, but nearly seven in 10 students say they prefer an instructional model with at least some virtual component. Three-quarters of students favor digital course materials over… Read More Keep up
I read a piece about the proliferation of learning technology in school classrooms a while back. I noticed last week it had been mentioned by the Christensen Institute in a piece on their website. The angle I hadn’t considered from a workplace perspective was cramming. That is, technology being crammed into workplaces to reinforce existing… Read More Cramming in tech
We were all prepared to record the ‘Learning Technology One’ episode of the Women Talking About Learning podcast and realised there are probably LOADS of women who’d be interested in speaking on it. So we’re going to do something different. Our online studio allows us to add an audience and let them join in and… Read More Let’s participate
My son and I were talking about how technology had sped things up – the idea of accessing TV programmes at any time on my mobile would have been unheard of 20 years ago. I was telling him about how following football scores on Teletext was a thing on a Saturday afternoon and he laughed… Read More Consumption and experience
In learning I am often asked what has worked in the past. This is about knowing which legends contain a grain of truth, what success other people have had and how to capitalise and scale these successes. Some people want future success to be built around other people’s missteps. I am also asked about what… Read More Tell me what’s happening now, and next
Lost and Desperate 