Sometimes as trainers, we wonder how our learners can ever take on board what is set before them. This could be for various reasons: it may …
Coronavirus and the Online Learning Conundrum
Corona virus is completely changing our world, including how we all now learn. What we once learnt in person is now learnt online. Which creates the content provider’s conundrum.
How to Create Safe Spaces for Contentious Issues Online
How do I react when I read something I disagree with online? I have to admit that I may Unfriend people if it is on Facebook or chose to Hide…
A Discourse Analysis of a Facebook Conversation
Why analyse a conversation? Social media conversations can bring out either collaborative or confrontational sides in us. This post analyses such a conversation from a Facebook group that I did…
An Ethnography of a Facebook Group
Social media plays a prominent role in most of our lives but because it is so pervasive, it is hard to see it through fresh eyes and to make what…
Thoughts on Topic for Dissertation
This blog post is very different to ones I have written previously on this site. In those I have blogged on experiences in a Masters in Digital Education at Edinburgh…
Digital Learning in a Community of Practice
Silence. Total silence. It came after one highlight for me of the Digital Education Masters course I was doing through Edinburgh University. Two world experts in their field had been…
The Power of Peer Review and Implications for Digital Learning
There were many challenges throughout that course. Electricity was intermittent. English, the language of communication, had varying levels of understanding among participants. But the biggest challenge was the cultural shift…
Digital Training – Enabling Better Discussion?
One participant came to speak to me about how the training session had been for her. At this early stage as a trainer, I had thought it had been good,…
Why I believe in adult learning principles
One of my great passions in life is helping learners best to learn and I believe that a big part of this is applying adult learning principles to how training…