Salman Khan, the founder of the incredibly successful Khan Academy of short, low-production value/low-cost, highly effective educational videos talks about educating online and the use of engaging video produced with passion. From the TED website: Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos …
6th Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning
Tony Hughes, praxMatrix CEO, presenting our online development project for the International Award Association at the 6th Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning in Kochin, India. The project is a global online training platform to train IAA Award leaders. It’s an ambitious project and has to satisfy a wide range of criteria including language localization, cross-platform …
Macrowikinomics and PCF6
I’m currently in Cochin, India for the Sixth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning. The theme of the conference is ‘Access and Success in Learning: Global Development Perspectives‘. I’m here with a contingent from the International Award Association for whom praxMatrix is developing an Online Award Leader Training platform for the Asia Pacific region in conjunction …
Korea IAA Workshop 2
Two hour presentation and workshop completed! It was good fun. Fortunately, there’s been great continuity between presenters and my presentation centreing around new approaches to learning and why these have informed the design of the online learning platform we are developing for IAA was able to draw a lot of good research from previous speakers. …
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 …
Developing Creativity to Make Sense of Digital Literacy
I’m getting seriously excited. For months I’ve been wondering exactly how digital literacy skills could be developed in ways that were relevant to the extra ordinary demands to reshape the way we use media and information while, simultaneously, ensuring that basic literacy skills such as reading and writing are given their proper place as the …
What is Moodle?: Part 2
The following presentation gives an overview of what Moodle is and how it works. For more information on integrating Moodle into your organisation’s elearning strategy please contact us.
