Category: Future
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I know what education will look like in the future
Actually I don’t really know but I know that it will reflect everything else around us as we move forward into the future. Unfortunately education and training are highly reactive. They both respond with a fairly large time lag to a multitude of other factors that have already changed. Education and training are typically the…
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More on the amazing brain
Further to my post yesterday I found some information I had stored for a later date which I thought you might enjoy. The first one is some research conducted on brain training programs. All though it is not conclusive it was very disappointing for all of those advocates of brain games etc. Then there is…
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Free screencasting software!
I found this great post a while ago which lists six free screencasting tools. What is screencasting? Basically it is where you take a series of shots of your computer screen, add some text, some voice and a range of other material and compile it so it plays like a movie. One of the simplest…
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Online learning is better
Another interesting post on online learning. It appears from this research “On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.” Not by much though. Intriguing is the final comment by the researcher who says that despite these findings learning must occur in a community. I suppose that is an online…
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A new training term?
Here’s a new training term for you, edupreneur. Well at least it was for me. I picked this up from a post at the Huffington Post. You can read it here. There appears to be a real educational revolution happening in America as opposed to our educational reshuffle which has really amounted to very little.…
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More on the online debate
It doesn’t take very long to find an article on the online education debate. Part of what I hope my role is in this blog is to review a lot of information and pass onto you some of the better articles, saving you the time taken to scan thousands of useless and poorly written posts…
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New Horizon report released
If you haven’t read a Horizon Report then start now. You don’t have to read the whole thing. You can just read this nice little summary provided by the education.au. Click here to read this post. You can access the full report from this post as well or just click here. A quick skim over…
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Who wants to watch an online lecture?
Maybe the lecture portrayed above is on the way out. Please read this post from the Chronicle of Higher Education. It basically covers the issues, pros and cons of putting your lectures, sessions or training online. Most of us are aware that in the university sector a growing number of lecturers post their lectures online,…