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MOOCs are rising: what to do about it

What connect’s Seth Godin’s Linchpin to a vote at Amherst? The question of MOOCs. Godin’s pitch goes something like this: access to knowledge is no...

0 replies - 141 views - 05/15/13 by Josh Dormont in Articles

Coursera Adds More to Their Educational Offering

Yesterday MOOC network Coursera released news of an increasing number of teacher training courses launching on the site. They have continued their march into...

0 replies - 492 views - 05/10/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Coursera to offer teacher training

MOOC company Coursera has made a huge splash in the online education market, offering people from around the world access to classes from some of the...

0 replies - 399 views - 05/08/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Zynga team up with New Schools for learning accelerator

Online gaming has never been more popular, and through gamification this notion of rewarding certain behaviours is creeping into the workplace.  For...

0 replies - 497 views - 05/02/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Will anyone remember a classroom in 10 years?

First, ask yourself, “What is the purpose of an education system?” If your answer is, “To provide the structure for training people in subjects that...

0 replies - 676 views - 04/21/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Reinventing corporate learning with online courses

Just as management schools got “disrupted” by a shift to more focused organizational training, so too should organizations be on the look-out to be...

0 replies - 294 views - 04/19/13 by Josh Dormont in Articles

Applying continuous learning using an online platform

Life is a continuum; it stops for no one and under no circumstances. In many aspects so does our work in any form it may take.  This understanding had...

0 replies - 723 views - 04/18/13 by Shany Dembak in Articles

NovoEd Brings Collaboration to Social Learning

MOOCs have been huge news over the past year, with sites like Coursera and edX regularly delivering classes to 50,000+ students from around the world. ...

0 replies - 311 views - 04/16/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Prepr create a social learning community

With the likes of Coursera and Khan Academy making headlines in the past year, it is undoubtedly a golden age for social learning delivered via web 2.0...

0 replies - 716 views - 03/26/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Assorted social business links

Some interesting social business links from around the web today, covering topics such as Yammer/Office integration, the different forms of social business and...

0 replies - 631 views - 02/21/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

The future of learning in a networked organisation

In our knowledge economy, having employees that continuously learn, and therefore continually improve, is a per-requesite of success. Below is a fascinating...

0 replies - 908 views - 02/14/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles