When it comes to new thinking on digital skills, I think we’re stuck in a moment that we cannot get out of. Last week I ran a keynote as part of Google’s Growth Engine for Europe initiative. I was meant to talk about digital skills and SMEs. 33 slides and 15 minutes later, I ended […]
An Infographic about technology change as adopted by students
This infographic is a neat snapshot of how much of what constitutes ‘technology change’ to learners is simply the legacy of other disruptive technological innovations in the past. What is not illustrated here is the restless dialectic between technology and popular culture. Students, of course, straddle both! Find more education infographics on e-Learning Infographics
Developing a National Lifelong Learning Strategy
It’s not every day that you are asked to develop the Lifelong Learning Strategy for your country. Lifelong learning has become a loaded term within the EU context, with interpretations that range from ‘learning throughout life for personal empowerment’ to ‘learning basic skills’ to secure employment in the labour market. So it was clear […]
From Social Media to Neuroscience to MOOCs and Mobile Education
My post-PhD work has taken me into three distinct, but correlated areas. The first is teaching. I have developed a 14-module social media strategy course from the ground up for marketing undergraduates at the University of Malta. It has taken me some to realise that I am comfortable in exploring both the ‘business’ approach to […]
Rheingold and the new literacy of Cooperation
Earlier this year I joined the first group at Howard Rheingold’s MindAmplifiers course. It was a seminal learning experience that continues to this day, in the Alumni group that formed spontaneously after to explore and change how we learn on the Web. Howard’s just announced a new course, called ‘Toward a New Literacy of Cooperation’, […]