Closed and Open Education
When you set out to educate a society in which information is scarce and in which all the key sources of information are controlled by an elite, the most effici...
Category: Learning
Panjandrums and their Playground
Let’s pretend for a moment that the formal education system has been designed and established to produce independent thinkers, people who, at the end of 10 or 1...
Self-Directed Professional Development
In 2010, I published a prose-poem called I Am Learner, which was an attempt to distil the fundamentals of my philosophy of education into as few words as I coul...
Technological Determinism and the Key to the Gates
Howard Gardner, speaking in a video on the DML Central site: I don’t believe for a moment in technological determinism. I believe any technology can be used ben...
University as Public Currency
A university is not a scientific hothouse with some frills around the edges – such as the humanities – generating off-the-peg ideas for business to patent and c...
Education Fast Forward: from learner voice to emerging leaders
Almost everyone involved in education agrees that leadership is important. That, however, is where agreement ends and debate begins. Beyond that point, we cross...
Educa ‘Online’ Debate
There’s an interesting clash of views taking place in a debate at Educa Online tomorrow (Thursday 29 November, 2012). In the red corner, Jef Staes, author...
SAIDE & OER Africa
On my travels around the world I have often found myself working with some truly inspiring organisations. One of these is SAIDE, the South African Institute for...
Kelvin Doe, aka DJ Focus – from Sierra Leone to MIT, self-taught
A perfect illustration of the I Am Learner philosophy! This has been cross-posted from my main blog at John Connell: the blog.
Has the UN’s Obsession with Primary Education Backfired?
In the light of my recent post, about the I Am Malala campaign, it was interesting to come across the intelligent and thoughtful article in this month’s P...