Education for change, not education as a result of change

I just read a really positive article on Flux about Intel, Microsoft and Cisco getting together and to call for a change in the way we “do” education called Time for a change? Largely I agreed with it. Certainly, we need a change, we need our education to reflect the way we do business…. wait [...]

“Some students are just not cut out for learning”

Earlier this year I was researching for an assignment on Generation Y and I came across Mike Wesch’s (US Professor of the year) work for the first time.  The assignment’s already been handed in and the semester finished but there’s still a quote from one of Wesch’s papers Anti Teaching: Confronting the crisis of significance that sticks [...]

Could Moodle be the answer to the question?

So it appears our LMS choice has been narrowed down to Moodle, which would be hosted by an external company that specialises in hosting Moodle and another open source platform for corporate clients.  I am quite fond of Moodle because of its open source nature – being built for a community by a community around educational prinicples [...]

All I do at work is sit online and chat with my friends.. no really… it’s true

A few times a week I devote a smallish amount of time at the start if my day to researching what’s going on in the world of learning, particularly learning online, even more particularly indulging my professional interest in connecting learners using technology.  I am often found searching wordpress for interesting ideas and links. I often [...]