While writing a chapter for a book, I was wondering about the contemporary needs of a course to fit the demands of this knowledge age. The beginning of the new millennium has been described as a Knowledge and this shift from the industrial age affects all of us (global audience). The societal changes brought along with the Internet, social media development and the rise to ubiquity by a number of technologies (wifi, mobiles…) has changed human society as a whole. He strongly beliefs (and I concur) that the emphasis of future education should not be on instruction, but on engagement. 2000). MORE >>

The name Sebastian Thrun may not mean much to you, but it should. And if it doesn’t now … it probably will at some point. Last year, Professor Thrun of Stanford University and his colleague Professor Norvig opened up an otherwise closed AI university course to the world. Instead of 200 students (tuition paying Stanford pupils) they ended up with what is arguably the world’s largest MOOC when they opened up enrolment to citizens of Earth. 160,000 students enrolled in their “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence” online version. For free. Oh, and those 200 paying customers? What is it? MORE >>

I haven’t been put in the place of having ultimate responsibility for driving a complete user experience for over a decade, though I’ve been involved in advising on a lot on many such. But I continue my decades long fascination with design, to the extent that it’s a whole category for my posts! An article on how Apple’s iPhone was designed caused me to reflect. On one such project, I asked early on: “who owns the vision?” ”  The answer soon became clear that no one had complete ownership. And we were a team. So, what do you think? design MORE >>

… continued from Part 2 … … Well if my conversation with Patrick Fitzpatrick at the Learning Technologies 2012 exhibition is anything to go by then the technology is already here, ready for use within learning interventions and he should know – he’s using it! I’d made a point of going to see Patrick as he had pushed out this rather mysterious tweet in advance of the exhibition. Who could resist? Imagine how this could impact upon our use of learning technologies? This is another step further in to creating a truly immersive elearning world. So what about you? MORE >>

With my Career Clarity Camp, we're entering the home stretch and starting to integrate the lessons we've learned. One of the things we're working on this week is looking at the emotions we feel about the work we've been doing, which got me thinking about the power of emotions at work. . Emotions at Work. One thing I've learned about work is that being "professional" often (usually?) means being unemotional. On a regular basis we are asked to check our emotions at the door, especially any negative emotions we may have like sadness, fear, anxiety, confusion, etc. Working with Our Emotions. MORE >>