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Serious Gaming, The Next Frontier for Learning?
In late October I hosted a set of Webinars titled “Serious Gaming – The Next Frontier for Learning?”. These were very interactive webinars, or as I called them, Socratic Webinars (hat tip to Humberto...
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Society as a Platform for Learning
I’ve written before about the #4T2 project by Kennisnet. A while back I was interviewed by Wietse van Bruggen about a concept, society as a learning platform, that we brainstormed in a small subgroup....
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Nine Challenges for the Learning Department (Based on Masie’s Learning 2012)
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...
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The Books I Read in 2012
Inspired by Tony Haile I have decided to write a yearly post in which I list the books that I have read for the year. This year I managed to read 57 books (still 18 books short on my seemingly...
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A Day of Conversations at Learning Technologies 2013
This is now my fourth year in a row that I manage to do a quick visit to the Learning Technologies exhibition in London. Like last year I decided to try and speak to as many luminaries as possible and...
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Learning. Who is responsible?
A hero: Ivan Illich Just now I delivered a keynote at the 20th Annual Israeli Learning Conference. I was there at the kind invitation of HR Israel and Amir Elion. My talk was pitched as follows: Over...
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Only the Autodidacts Are Free – Why I Have a Personal Library
Antifragile I’ve been reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book Antifragile, Things That Gain from Disorder. I’ve portioned the book into 30 daily chunks of 14 pages each and post a Tweet about those 14...
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A Short Video-Interview About Self-Organized Learning
Marcel de Leeuwe and I will be hosting a workshop on do-it-yourself learning at this year’s Dutch e-learning event. Marcel did a short interview with me about the topic as a warming-up exercise. In the...
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Self Organized Learning Environments: An Assignment
This post is an assignment for the participants of the “Sociale media voor Leren en Veranderen in Organisaties en Netwerken”-leergang by En Nu Online. (Click here to get a Google Translated Dutch...
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The Caledonian Academy: Learning from Incidents, OER en Self Regulated Learning
Earlier this year I visited the Caledonian Academy (part of the Glasgow Caledonian University). Their work focuses solely on technology-enhanced and professional learning. I spent most of a day...
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Changing the Responsibility for Learning
Last week has been a busy week with both the E-learning Event and a webinar for En Nu Online. I’ll share some of the presentations that I did in this short post. Based on my presentation at last year’s...
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Delivery Models for Learning
Marcel de Leeuwe, Ruud Smeulders and I hosted a Masterclass on Learning Business Models at the Dutch E-learning Event. TU Delft’s Pieter de Vries has written a solid report (in Dutch) about this...
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How To Chair a Socratic Webinar
The Man Webinars are usually dreadful affairs. There is wise advice from Donald Taylor and there is the webinar manifesto (slightly too commercial: “Never design, deliver or sell lousy webinars again”)...
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My Top 10 Tools for Learning 2013
Jane Hart has been compiling a list of top 100 tools for learning for over six years now. This is one of the many reasons why she received an award for her contribution to Learning. A learning tool...
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The Books I Read in 2013
Just like last year I decided to publish an overview of the books that I’ve read during the year. Covers of the books I read This year I managed to read 48 books (I am really missing my daily commute,...
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Self Defense: Justifying Your Role
Nigel Paine The original title for this session was “how not to get fired”. Nigel Paine talked about strategies you can use that help you stay relevant and create a bit more security for yourself: If...
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Closing Session of Elliott Masie’s Learning 2012
The last general session of Learning 2012 started with thanking all the people who were involved in producing the conference and making it happen. I have to commend Elliott Masie and his team for...
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Is group chat making you sweat? — Signal v. Noise
Jason Fried has writen an incredible post about the benefits and the pitfalls (mostly the latter) of group chat after ten years of experience at 37signals and Basecamp. I think he is fundamentally...
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Liberia Outsources Primary Education
Wait. What? Admittedly I know little to nothing about education in Liberia and it really isn’t up to me to judge the decision of their Minister of Education (how would you solve his problems?)....
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Turnitin User Agreement: I disagree
For the past one and a half year or so I’ve been studying Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. Today I wanted to hand in my very first and very tentative ideas about my Master’s thesis. Using the...
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