How To Chair a Socratic Webinar

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Webinars are usually dreadful affairs. There is wise advice from Donald Taylor and there is the webinar manifesto (slightly too commercial: "Never design, deliver or sell lousy webinars again") that will help you do a better job. I would like to add a completely different way to run a webinar. I call it the Socratic … Continue reading How To Chair a Socratic Webinar

The Caledonian Academy: Learning from Incidents, OER en Self Regulated Learning

Earlier this year I visited the Caledonian Academy (part of the Glasgow Caledonian University). Their work focuses solely on technology-enhanced and professional learning. I spent most of a day exploring their delightful areas of research and have now finally found the time to write it all up. Learning from Incidents Dane Lukic worked with the … Continue reading The Caledonian Academy: Learning from Incidents, OER en Self Regulated Learning

Self Organized Learning Environments: An Assignment

This post is an assignment for the participants of the "Sociale media voor Leren en Veranderen in Organisaties en Netwerken"-leergang by En Nu Online. (Click here to get a Google Translated Dutch version of this post). Last February Sugata Mitra was awarded the TED prize for 2013. The prize money will help him carry out … Continue reading Self Organized Learning Environments: An Assignment