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Autonomy and the importance of teachers
The technology industry spends millions trying to disrupt education. And one of their fantasies is that machines can replace teachers. I don't think they can or should. On International Teachers ... -
Digitalisation in / of Vocational Education and Training
Last November I facilitated a workshop at the European Skills Week event on research in vocational education and training. The workshop was entitled digitalisation in /of vocational education and training. ... -
Identity transformation and Industry 4.0
Creating social online spaces to facilitate learning for identity transformation from Graham Attwell Here are the slides from a presentation I gave at the Bundeswehr BildungsKongress In Hamburg last ... -
Open Educational Practices
Conceptualising OEP: A review of theoretical and empirical literature in Open Educational Practices from Catherine Cronin Good presentation at Open Education Global Conference, April 24th, 2018 - based on ... -
Learning Design
Grainne Conole talks about the promise and reality of using technology for learning. She asks "is technology changing learning and teaching? Social media, she says offer new ways to ... -
Crossing Boundaries
I think I have written several times before about the problems with conferences. Too many boring sessions with short presentations featuring long lists of bullet points in PowerPoint. At best ... -
The Green Slime Neoliberal Lens
Like many of us I guess, I am disillusioned that the rich promise of social networks for informal learning and the sharing of knowledge has been overwhelmed by endless drive ... -
Taking further steps with the TACCLE4-CPD project – Part Three: Mapping the approaches and contributions ...
With my two latest blogs I have been started a series of posts with which I want to take further steps with the ongoing EU-funded TACCLE4-CPD project. In the first ... -
Student satisfaction unrelated to learning behaviour and academic performance
I seem to spend a lot of time lately moaning about bad data practices. About approaches to learning analytics which appear to be based on looking at what data is ... -
Taking further steps with the TACCLE4-CPD project - Part One: Setting the scene for project ...
In December 2017 I wrote a blog on the kick-off meeting of the EU-funded TACCLE4-CPD project that took place in our institute ITB at the University of Bremen. In that ...