Virtual Action Learning Facilitation

The programme has been designed to enable experienced Action Learning facilitators to become confident and successful virtual facilitators and to discover the real potential of this powerful learning format.

Learning Should Be Fun « Mind Hacks

When you learn a new thing, or get a surprise, there is a shot of a chemical messenger in your brain called dopamine. Dopamine is famous among neuroscientists for its involvement in the reward and motivation systems of the brain. …

ITOE: Motivations for Open Education

Strategic: Adapting educational practices to the changing world culture may increase viability of educational institutions. (Additional motivations exist here as well, but are perhaps more subtle or less overarching).

No. 07-15679. – NOLAN v. HEALD COLLEGE – US 9th Circuit

In January 2002, Appellee Heald College purchased a group long-term disability insurance plan (the Plan) from MetLife. The Plan granted MetLife broad discretion to both interpret relevant Plan provisions and to determine eligibility for …

Learning Makes Itself Invisible « Mind Hacks

One-shot learning is unusual. Most learning happens over a far longer time-scale, so it is even harder to keep a grip on what it was like to not know.

ITOE: History of Open Education

I was joking with Scott Leslie on Twitter today that the history of open educational resources probably goes back to Hammurabi’s Code or earlier. Probably the Library at Alexandria would have been a better example, but whatever. …

Petition for Equal Access to Music Education – The Petition Site

To that end, we call on the US Department of Education and all American