This November starts several new initiatives for me. Sustainability, Society and You The Sustainability, Society and You MOOC #freeonlinecourse on FutureLearn started yesterday. Six weeks of learning and sharing about sustainable lifestyles, individual, group, neighbourhood, national and global level. I’ve supported this MOOC, for lead educator Prof Sarah Speight, since
In order to succeed, companies’ strategies for sustainability need to be informed by their context, aware of internal and external factors, and able to adapt with these in mind. A commonly used technique in developing strategy is SWOT analysis, based upon an assessment of ‘Strengths, ‘Weaknesses’, ‘Opportunities’ and ‘Threats’. These
Nottingham’s NOOC was an online course on Perspectives on Sustainability open to all staff and students at all three campuses of the University of Nottingham. Here’s the presentation from my talk about it at the Association for Learning Technology conference this week (sorry it’s a bit late!). Click into post for NOOCing Nottingham PDF
University of Hull 2012 – based on JISC’S ‘Susie’s Journey’ I’ve just published (on the University of Nottingham Learning Technology Blog) a really useful explanation of Open Badges, from Kirstie Coolin: The Whats and Whys of Open Badges.
There’s a theory that by experiencing and reading widely, particularly outside one’s own field, one can be inspired by ideas from wildly different domains and encourage innovation and problem-solving. So I like to remain open to new ideas and concepts and sometimes actively seek them. Or at least, that’s the
New Library Technologies Dispense With Librarians An article caught my eye from the Wall Street Journal (this article currently free to access but may disappear behind subscription firewall). A library in St PAul, Minnesota, USA, has been replaced with a “Library Express” – you order the book you want and
It’s not always easy to engage a large audience interactively in a learning session. Yet we know that active learning and engagement improves understanding, prompts reflection, provides feedback so that the tutor can tune the content of the session, and has many other positive effects on learning. Asking questions however,
Sometimes it’s useful to compare your understanding of a term with the generally accepted definitions. Over time, too, words and phrases change their meanings or acquire new ones. Within different sectors of education, the same term can be understood differently. Here are some useful lists of techniques, definitions and terms
Moodle is well-known as a virtual learning environment in schools, colleges and universities. What is perhaps less well-known is that Moodle can also be used as an online learning space within a corporate environment, yet even those who use it may not recognise it, as it’s often hidden as part
It’s amazing how much continuing professional development you can do for free. The web has always been a great place for sharing knowledge and expertise, and there are new ways to do this appearing all the time. It’s almost always the case that someone will have written a blog post