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Data and the future of universities
I've been doing quite a lot of thinking about how we use data in education. In the last few years two things have combined - the computing ability to collect ... -
The TACCLE4-CPD project takes further steps in its work - Part One: Reflections on our ...
As I had told in my earlier blog of December 2017, our institute ITB is involved in a new European project TACCLE4-CPD. This project is the fourth one in the ... -
Issues in developing apprenticeship programmes: UK and Spain
After years of running down apprenticeship schemes through a policy focus on mass university education, the UK, in common with other European countries, has in the past few years turned ... -
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 slow cancellation of the future
Writing in the Guardian, Becky Gardiner, a senior lecturer at Goldsmiths University in London, explains why she is on strike. Although the strike in the UK universities is now into ... -
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 ... -
Are we lost in online space?
Last November I was invited to give a presentation at a conference "Are we lost in online space?" organised by in Belgrade. As the report on the conference web ... -
The problems of assessing competence
It was interesting to read Simon Reddy’s article in FE News, The Problem with Further Education and Apprenticeship Qualifications, lamenting the low standard of training in plumbing the UK and ... -
Revisiting the Learning Layers experience "2.0" - Reworking the research papers of 2017
Last April (2017) I prepared for myself a ToDo list to prepare three conference papers with which I would revisit the experience of our EU-funded Learning Layers project (2012 - ... -
One year from the Learning Layers' final review - Part Three: New information on the ...
In my two previous blogs I have been developing a series of posts that reflects on the Final Review of our EU-funded Learning Layers project (one year ago) and on ...
