The midden

Ken Robinson’s wonderful talk on TED

Visit his website for all things Sir Ken.

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This book gives a detailed and comprehensive coverage of how digital technologies can be used to transform our present, outdated, industrial model of education. Co-published by BC Campus and the Commonwealth of Learning, it is available as a free download. As we are aware, despite the widespread availability of new technologies, their impact on teaching [...]

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Team Academy is now 15 years old. Started in 1993 by inspirational marketing teacher, Timo Partanen, Team Academy offers a Business Administration degree with a difference - students leave the course having learned how to be an entrepreneur. Rather than have traditional lectures and assignments, students work in teams to create and run a real [...]

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Jane Hart, head of the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies, has produced a useful list of the most popular tools used by learning professionals. The list is a mix of proprietary, open source and web-based tools. She has also grouped them by type, and given other suggestions of similar tools in each category.

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