Teaching the World
Professor Bob Moon, Professor of Education at The Open University in the UK, penned a piece in 2010 for the Commonwealth of Learning site entitled: Time for Ra...
Category: Teaching
Teaching: A Doctoral Profession?
A few years ago, Don Ledingham wrote about the prospects of achieving a ‘doctoral profession’ in Scottish teaching. Whether his enthusiasm for a doctoral teachi...
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...
What do Saylor, Grovo and Scitable all have in common?
They are all sites offering free online learning! Check them out, along with a few others worth looking at… Thanks to Edudemic for the link.
The greatest edtech development in 200 years? I hope so…
….the same three-person team of a professor plus assistants that used to teach analog circuit design to 400 students at MIT now handles 10,000 online and ...
Writers Teaching Writing
Euan Semple has a knack for short posts that force me to confront some assumptions. A recent one is a case in point, entitled Mass Illiteracy: Are those who esp...
Could a MOOCl Contribute to the Education of the World’s Poorest Children?
In a piece in the Independent, in 2011, Gordon Brown wrote: ….the international aid system for education is failing the world’s children. He was int...