Video 1 in the Award Leader Series that answers many of the questions asked by aspiring Award Leaders of the International Award for Young People. Rob Oliphant, Regional Programme Manager, Asia Pacific, talks about the challenges and rewards of being an Award Leader. Filmed in Bali, Indonesia during the November 2011 Award Leader Training. Filmed …
praxMatrix Awarded by IAA
praxMatrix has been recognised as a ‘Gold Friend’ of the International Award Association (International Award for Young People) at a ceremony in London earlier in the month presided over by HRH the Earl of Wessex. The Award is given in ‘recognition of outstanding support to the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award International Foundation’. Other awardees included HSBC, Coutts, Xstrata, …
Speaking & Presentations March and April 2011
I will be presenting at the following conferences in March and April. If you aren’t attending and are interested in receiving more information about the presentations or the events please contact me. Global Learn Asia Pacific 2011, Melbourne March 28-April 1 I will be presenting a paper on the online training platform we are developing …
Join us on Facebook
After my last post/article about the potential dangers of social media I’m now going to urge you to join us on Facebook! Our Facebook site is used to notify you of events that praxMatrix is involved in, new projects that we are working on, speaking engagements that I have and updates and links to other …
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 …
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 …
Australian Education: Passport to A Global Career
Australian Education: Passport to A Global Career (ISBN 978-1-921156-53-3) has been published and is now available. The guide offers a comprehensive coverage of Australian education and education providers and has been especially written for international students wanting to study in Australia. In her forward, the (new!) Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, says: “I am pleased …
