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Author Archives: Stuart Sutherland
New Year, new job
After five years at The National College I shall be leaving this Christmas to take up a new post in January as head of development and delivery at University of Derby Online. University of Derby Online is a new startup … Continue reading
The Amsterdam 300
On Thursday 15 September at 10.30 PM, I set off in a group of around 70 cyclists from SCOPE headquarters in London to ride to Amsterdam in less than 2 days. The Amsterdam 300 (which turned out to be over … Continue reading
TeachMeet Midlands, May 20 2011
I’m looking forward to what I am confident will be one of my most stimulating professional development experiences of the year on the evening of Friday May 20: TeachMeet Midlands at the National College.
Learning design for collaborative online learning
I work in a team at the National College that is widely distributed across the country. One way in which we ensure that we keep in touch with each other and share what we are working on and learning, is … Continue reading
The National College online network: a case study in building and managing a professional networking and learning system
In January 2010, eLearn Magazine published its annual set of predictions for 2010. In her contribution, Jane Hart wrote: I think (and hope) we will see learning systems moving away from managing or controlling users and instead providing open learning … Continue reading
Etienne Wenger on communities of practice
I was privileged to be able to attend a number of really stimulating events in 2010 focusing on how social technologies can be harnessed to foster the spread of knowledge and good ideas across organisations, communities and sectors. I attended … Continue reading
Voices from the SSAT National Conference
I was lucky enough to attend the last day of the SSAT’s excellent National Conference in November as part of my work for the National College on our Developing Leaders for Tomorrow (Primary) programme, which we run with the SSAT. … Continue reading
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The CancerNursing.org story
The story of CancerNursing.org to date is the story of carefully-packaged but relatively uncomplicated e-learning resources … bringing high quality cancer nursing expertise to truly international audiences and to many audiences that simply could not access such expertise previously. It … Continue reading
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Community management lessons learned – Part 2
Since posting ‘Community management lessons learned – Part 1’ a couple of weeks ago, I’ve learned further important lessons that I’d like to articulate in this second post. Again, these are lessons I’ve learned with and from colleagues through our … Continue reading
Community management lessons learned – Part 1
This is the first in what I hope will be a series of posts in which I seek to articulate some of the lessons I feel that I’m learning with colleagues about community management, based upon our work to look … Continue reading