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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
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
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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Tagged learning technology, online learning
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My online learning experience as a series of links
I’m starting this new blog at the same time as beginning work on my portfolio to be presented for accreditation as a Certified Member of the Association for Learning Technology. To begin the process of pulling together material for the … Continue reading
Grassroots leadership of learning and technology
Since the expected announcement by the new coalition government in May that they are to close down BECTA, I’ve been really heartened by the optimisim and confidence that have emanated from what you might call the educational technology grassroots about how peer-to-peer networks and collaboration can continue to promote innovation and advocate for the enhancement of learning through technology.
Peter Ford makes this case very persuasively in his blog post ‘Passing the technology baton? to grassroots networks’ and Martin Wheeler did likewise in his post ‘The sun sets on Becta’.
However, a recent tweet from Phil Bagge has prompted me to contribute the thoughts below to the ongoing conversation. Continue reading
Posted in leadership, learning technology, teaching and learning
Tagged National College, system leadership, TeachMeet, Twitter
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