Jane Hart published the results of a survey which show again that learning doesn’t happen just by sitting in a classroom or by completing an online course. Years of formalised and structured education programs which were rolled out by teams of trainers, instructional...
There’s an amount of articles popping up telling us that the "new learning" should be like watching a movie. Just recently, I shared an article of Josh Bersin in which he described that learning should look like TV. Karl Mehta and Rob Harles agree with him and suggest...
During the last few months I worked a lot with teachers. While I used to hold rather programmed courses on how to use certain tools, I started changing my tune to listening much more to the teacher’s very own preferences on how they want to use technologies in their...
The problem with today’s training department is that it is actually not “today’s”, but “yesterday’s”. It is trying to manage their employees’ learning instead of focusing on how to make the learning itself be more exciting and useful. As Josh Bersin wrote in his...
Whenever I reminisce with people about school life and what was good about it, most people always end up at some really good teacher. Students need good teachers to help them explore, dream, care, become lifelong learners. Teachers who bring their passion and...
E-Learning in distance learning institutions is not supposed to be a mere department. It is a philosophy to be embraced by every employee — from the CEO to the administration staff. I’ve been preaching this for years. Yet I’m still surprised that many institutions...
According to this article, New York University launched a computer science bridge program for liberal arts graduates. It's called "Bridge to Tandon" program and offers basic instruction on programming, algorithm development and system fundamentals. I'm still missing...
Während darüber diskutiert wird, das Gratis-WLAN am Westbahnhof in Wien als Kriminalitätsmaßnahme einzuschränken, gibt es andernorts noch nicht einmal Breitbandversorgung. Überhaupt scheinen Städte stärker im Fokus zu stehen, wenn es um die Digitalisierung geht. Von...
In October 2016 has opened the first university without any teacher in California, trying to do to education what Facebook did to communication and Airbnb to accommodation. It's called 42 - the name taken from the science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the...