What every teacher knows instinctively…
…that teaching is not just complex, it is very complex! Teaching involves many tangibles, but far more intangibles. There is just so much in the whole com...
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From ‘Radical Impossibility’ to ‘I Am Learner’
I recently re-visited a paper by Ron Burnett, President of the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, entitled Learning to Learn in a Virtual World. It w...
Education’s Moment of Interplay
In The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, published almost half a century ago, Marshall McLuhan observed that the world he lived in was changing s...
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...
Teacher-Student Relationship
David Brooks, in his popular book, The Social Animal, expounds on education, and has a few interesting things to say, mainly in the American context (although u...
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...
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...
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 ...