Using technology to support learning and work

I was looking at the results of the Learning and Work Institute survey looking at the use of technology to support learning and one detail made me stop: Confidence in using technologies more specific to learning and work is also low; just two in five adults are confident in joining video meetings for work (40… Read More Using technology to support learning and work

Keep up

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

Cramming in tech

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

Let’s participate

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

Consumption and experience

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