How much does it cost to make decisions?

Educational institutions are dominated by committees and meetings, with FE being worse than schools and HE worse than FE. It was during one such meeting at a University that had lots of people attending that I created a simple Excel Sheet similar to the one below to estimate how much the meeting cost in terms [...]

Frank Coffield – on embedding e-learning

The short video below, is of Professor Frank Coffield, a well respected and out spoken professor of education, whose beliefs very much mirror mine, and in particular he mentions the fact that for embedding to take place, tutors need access to the tools but more importantly time for this to happen. This video follows on [...]

Using students to teach teachers

I have often thought that people working in education don’t make use of students as resources, I recognise that some educationalists hold on to the belief that they have to be the font of all knowledge, and by using learners knowledge would be somehow underminning that believe (I personally don’t believe in myself being the [...]

Using ‘Paint’ to create simple quizes for a phone

Lilian Soon of xlearn is superb when it comes to using mobile phones with learners, and one technique that she has developed is creating a series of small image files, which you then distribute to the learners phones, and if they flick through them in sequence they have a learning object. Lilian has created a [...]