In late October I attended Elliot Masie's Learning Conference. I've blogged extensively about each individual session, but want to use this post to lift out the larger themes that I saw at the event and to ask the corporate learning departments a few challenging questions that relate to these themes. Personalized Learning A few years … Continue reading Nine Challenges for the Learning Department (Based on Masie’s Learning 2012)
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Personalizing Learning
Richard Culatta is with the US Department of Education at the Office of Educational Technology. He is an exceptional speaker and a "smart cookie", I dig his self-deprecating style. He kicked off by showing examples of what he calls "pencil sharpening" technology. Pencil sharpening is a metaphor for just making the same thing a little … Continue reading Personalizing Learning
Werken = Leren & Leren ≠ Werken
Today I keynoted the Dutch Moodlemoot (mootnl12). I talked about how current times force us to let go of curricula, why it is more important than anything else to teach students how to learn, what it means to work in a knowledge society (work becomes synonymous with learning) and what this might mean for a … Continue reading Werken = Leren & Leren ≠ Werken
Erik Duval on Learning Analytics at the e-Learning Event
Erik Duval is a professor at the Catholic University in Leuven. His team works on Human Computer Interaction. In the last few years, he has done a lot of work around Learning Analytics, which he defines as being about collecting traces that learners leave behind and using those traces to improve learning. His students at … Continue reading Erik Duval on Learning Analytics at the e-Learning Event
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