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Use social networking for learning, do not let it use you
As some learners seem surgically adhered to their Blackberries, others despair of the time wasted in social networking sites when classes – or work – beckon. Yes, networking can waste time – but only...
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Learning for living and learning for life
Why bother with a degree? A refreshingly forthright presentation by Mike Campbell at the BILD 2010 conference set me thinking once again about the economics of learning and what that means to real...
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Double-counting and open learning
Degrees and the vast majority of professional qualifications include a sometimes mysterious ‘double-counting’ rule. If you are full-time within a UK-based degree in one institution, this is not a...
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Qualifications and work
Around the Western world newspapers are writing about lack of jobs for the degree-educated young, parents who question the value of degrees of any sort, academic concerns about ‘mickey mouse‘ degrees...
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Learning, measuring and teaching connections
Ripples on a pond, a snowdrop and The King’s Speech. Connective learning, knowledge and human agency. Using images is one way to try and understand the relationships between learning, the measurement...
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Visual learning goals and outcomes
Just as I was contemplating the events of the past week, Erik Duval popped up on Twitter with a link to his blog on visual portrayal of goals. I was contemplating the idea of requiring all engaged in...
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TELMap – future learning landscapes
Where and how we learn is changing. Last week in Lisbon, the TELMap project group met to brainstorm the challenges that lie ahead in meeting the education and training needs of a growing, more...
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Oven-ready graduates
A Guardian poll looks at whether or not university graduates should be job-ready, saving the employing company from any initial training – beyond, presumably, the usual health-and-safety stuff....
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Tips for stagiaires finding work in England
So, you are a European student and want to improve your English by working in Britain for a few months. That is good – but jobs are hard to find so you need to prepare. First, if you need Google...
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Personal Learning apps
The ROLE project has today had its final official review but this is far from the end of ROLE. Personal learning environments and self-regulated learning for people at work, in education or at home...
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Academic language – or being taken seriously
There’s a huge divide between casual spoken and academic language when written and a slightly smaller gap when spoken. The problem for international speakers who arrive at Masters or higher levels is...
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