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Revisiting the Learning Layers experience – “ToDo List” for conferences finally completed
At the end of April this year I had left behind all the work after the final review of our EU-funded Learning Layers (LL) project. We had completed the work ... -
Conversational learning and evidence based education
I have missed out on this autumn's conference circuit. I just don't have the money to pay for fees and travel (let alone beer) in attending these events. I am ... -
Wrapping up the ECER 2017 experience – Part Four: Discussions on vocational teacher education
With my three previous blogs I have started a series of posts reporting on the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER 2017) that took place last week in Copenhagen. The ... -
Boot camps closing
Interesting press release from Reuters regarding the American Coding Boot Camps - a model some policy makers in Europe have been looking at as a model for adoption. Reuters report ... -
Shaping digital tools for continuing vocational training in construction sector - the DigiProB workshop in ...
Last Friday (19th of May) I visited a workshop hosted by my ITB colleagues for yet another follow-up activity of our EU-funded Learning Layers (LL) project. This time the German-funded ... -
The future of learning is social?
In the stream of tweets passing by on the top of my screen I noticed a link to a article called 'The end of Formal Learning Content' by Juliette Denny ... -
Stress and academic identities
I was planning to write an article on academics and ‘well being’ today so it is somewhat serendipitous that Twitter gave me a link to an article in Times Higher ... -
More about competency based education
Just a quick addendum to my earlier article on competency based education. Things go round and much of my experience was from providing professional development to teachers and trainers for ... -
What's the problem with competency based education?
I got this diagram from a report by Katherine Hockey on the Accelerating Digital Transformation in Higher Education conference, I’ll write more about some of the topics Katherine raises, but ... -
The unwritten rules of engagement
Fascinating research from April Yee, program officer for the James Irvine Foundation in the USA. In a report entitled "The Unwritten Rules of Engagement: Social Class Differences in Undergraduates’ Academic ...
