On January 24-26, 2012, one hundred distinguished thought leaders from all over the world were invited to come together in Austin to mark the tenth anniversary of the NMC Horizon Project with a very special convocation and retreat. During the retreat they identified a number of ‘mega trends’ that will effect learning and the way we work …
Korea IAA Workshop
The conference/workshop started with a tour of Seoul and an evening drinking the local Saki type fuel called Soju with 3 of the IAA staffers – clear, inoffensive tasting but with the power to finally catch up with you and make new acquaintances seem like very old friends. Good fun. Today Michael McQueen gave his …
Participatory Learning Workshop, Seoul, Korea 25-29 October,2010
I’ll be in Seoul, Korea between the 24th October and the 30th October presenting at the International Award Association’s ‘Asia Pacific Regional Training Workshop’. I’ll be running a two hour workshop on the 27th that will concentrate firstly on what learners, and especially Generation Y learners, expect of the learning experience and what participatory, constructivist …
E-learning in France: Anything new?
I’m back in France for a couple of months after eight months in Australia. Having spent most of my working life in Europe, particularly in France, working on various digital media projects I am very interested to see how the French are thinking about e-learning in 2010. France was slow to pick up on the …
Digital Media Skills Training Shortage
Findings in a recently released survey from the American Society of Business Publication Editors and the Medill School/Media Management Center at Northwestern University point to a significant digital media skills training shortage for business-to-business (B2B) editors. The survey finds that B2B editors “generally receive a paltry amount of corporate training on the skills they need …
Keeping up with the Kids
The George Lucas Educational Foundation has a great Digital Generation Project running through its website EduTopia. Anyone who has an interest in digital media, especially educators involved in the development of online learning, wants to know how the next generation of digital media users is approaching both the technology and the distribution and design of …
Online Learning Boom in Korea
We’ve known for some time that the take-up of the Internet in Asia is accelerating faster than in nearly any other region. But within that there are some surprisingly rapid growth curves for online learning. Australian educational organisations and suppliers should be looking at these figures and thinking about how they can develop successful digital …
Digital: More Opportunity Than Risk
Following my last posting, I’ve just come across an article on the NASDAQ website where Time Warner’s Chief Executive, Jeff Bewkes, talks about the ongoing, and often pessimistic discourse coming from traditional publishing houses who have, for several years now, been hit by slowing revenues from traditional media sources as consumers have moved online. Unlike …
The Digital Future
When an industry pundit like John Warnock, co-founder of the digital development tools software giant Adobe Systems, talks about the effect of digital technology on the future of information dissemination and communication it is worth taking a bit of time out to have a careful listen and think about how what he is saying applies …
