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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 ... -
Time to tap the breaks?
Graham Brown Martin talks about Personalised Learning. Does #EdTech personalise, individualise or standardise, he asks? "In the age of big data and learning analytics, are ... -
Number students outside EU falls in UK
Times Higher Education reports the number of first-year students from outside the European Union enrolling at UK universities fell by 1 per cent from 2014-15 ... -
Learning Analytics and the Peak of Inflated Expectations
Has Learning Analytics dropped of the peak of inflated expectations in Gartner's hype cycle? According to Educause 'Understanding the power of data' is still there ... -
Celebrating the Finnish children's favourite TV program "Pikku Kakkonen" - 40 years and more
On my blog I have not dealt so much with my home country Finland - given that I have worked since 1994 most of the ... -
The end of the Obama era - the great Obama moments
In my previous blog I wrote from a personal point of view on the coming of a new era. But, of course from a global ... -
A new year - a new era: Let's see what's coming up!
The new year 2017 is already two weeks old and I returned back to work already one week ago. During the last few years I ... -
Informal learning in practice
Last week I travelled from Derby to Manchester airport by train. It was a typical English Midlands December day – cold, damp and foggy. Waiting ... -
New Insights into UK society today from longitudinal research
Understanding Society has published its fifth annual report highlighting some of the new topical policy-relevant research conducted recently using data from the annual survey which ... -
Productivity and vocational education and training
Interest in Vocational Education and Training (VET) seems to go in cycles. Its always around but some times it is much more to the forefront ...