Category: Learning
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The Learning Manifesto
Five Core Principles for Effective Learning I started teaching in 1979, when, as a third year undergraduate student, I was given a 1st year class to teach. Since then I’ve taught thousands of students, designed courses from short courses to Masters degrees and bailed out courses that were in trouble. Over 43 years I have…
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Higher Education Is in Trouble, And Should Be – Higher Education is Broken, Let’s Disrupt it and Build a Better Model of Adult Education Series, Part 1
This series of articles examines the deep and profound structural issues in post-secondary and adult education, examines the disruptive forces at work and works towards a new model of adult education that can truly work for all. Here is part one. Even before Covid-19, higher education was dead in the water, it just didn’t generally…
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The Benefits of Having Diverse Friends and How to Learn from Them
I am blessed with having friends of all sorts, from so many countries, religions, ethnicities, experience and professions. There are values in such diversity that you may not expect. [caption id="attachment_883" align="aligncenter" width="1400"] Photo by Duy Pham on Unsplash[/caption]
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The Privileging of Text Literacy in Education Must Stop and a Media-Agnostic Approach Embraced
 Since the development of writing we have gradually privileged text literacy above other forms of communication. Even oratory, one of the pillars of Greek civilisation, has been subsumed in the march of text literacy above all else. In education we put so much emphasis on text literacy that children who have difficulty with text are…