Today was the first day of the seventh edition of the PICNIC festival in Amsterdam (hashtag #picnic12. The festival's goal is "to discover opportunities for transformation: processes, cultures, products, services, models and experiences". The theme for the year is New Ownership: the shift from top down to bottom up. This is my first time attending … Continue reading PICNIC Festival 2012 Day One
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Putting the ‘Design’ in Learning Designer (for The eLearning Network)
The eLearning Network publishes a yearly advent calendar at the end of the year. I wrote a small post for this year's calendar. Please find the text below (first published here): The Big Lebowski The Big Lebowski by the Coen brothers is my all time favourite movie. I am not the only one who feels … Continue reading Putting the ‘Design’ in Learning Designer (for The eLearning Network)
Reflecting on Lift France 2011: Key Themes
A couple of weeks ago I attended the Lift France 2011 conference. For me this was different than my usual conference experience. I have written before how Anglo-Saxon my perspective is, so to be at a conference where the majority of the audience is French was refreshing. Although there was a track about learning, most … Continue reading Reflecting on Lift France 2011: Key Themes
Kaizen versus Good Enough
Arjen Vrielink and I write a monthly series titled: Parallax. We both agree on a title for the post and on some other arbitrary restrictions to induce our creative process. For this post we agreed to write about how Kaizen (the philosophy of continuous improvement) relates to the rise of the Good Enough paradigm. The … Continue reading Kaizen versus Good Enough
Beautiful Functional Design: The Strida Folding Bike
As regular readers of this blog might have noticed: I love great technology. When I talk about technology, I push the concept slightly further than most web aficionados might do. It is not just gadgets that I like, but any well designed tool that can make my life easier is much appreciated. A great blog … Continue reading Beautiful Functional Design: The Strida Folding Bike