Change Stories: teachers’ accounts of how they changed their practice
Visiting University of Kent at Canterbury yesterday, I met Sally Fincher. She is running an intruiging project called Change Stories, a narrative approach to eliciting accounts of practitioner...
View ArticleAuthentic Enquiry meets Theory U
Mark was at the Authentic Enquiry Design Principles workshop and came up with this visual description of the thinking and learning capabilities. Eight steps become five stages of a journey and meet...
View ArticleTrafalgar Primary School in Victoria, Australia, pioneers radical approaches...
Vicki Miles, Principal, Trafalgar Primary School in Victoria gives an overview of how her students are enhancing arts and media skills with integrated technology. Trafalgar Primary school is a...
View ArticleInstitute for Inquiry
This is how the Institute for Inquiry describes the enquiry process — in language very similar to our ideas about authentic enquiry… Good science education requires both learning scientific concepts...
View ArticleComplexity, Computing, Contemplation, Learning?
Beyond conscious rationality All of my work has been around harnessing the digital world to get us to go beyond the surface and think more deeply. Up till now this has been largely focused on rational...
View ArticleIntroducing Learning Power: Bahrain Polytechnic
These were the slides used at a seminar in Manama, organised by Bahrain Polytechnic on 22nd June 2011. Bahrain Polytechnic have been using ELLI for two years and it is becoming well embedded in the...
View ArticleMapping the Deeper Learning Literature using Cohere
In a perfect example of Bristol/Open U. collaboration, Helen Jelfs (Grad. School Educ., Univ. Bristol and visiting OLnet Fellow, Open University) recently gave a seminar with the Open University’s...
View ArticlePhD: Learning Analytics for Learning Power
Learning Analytics for Learning Power Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK 3 year fully-funded PhD (Oct. 2012-Sept.2015), Stipend: £40,770 (£13,590/year) Supervisors: Simon...
View ArticleNgambara Fimityatit: Learning Together in Daly River
These murals of a Barramundi and a Brolga have been painted by the community in Daly River, Northern Territory, Australia, to remind everyone about how the community and the children in St Francis...
View ArticleTeaching for Effective Learning: South Australia Department for Education and...
Visiting Fellow Chris Goldspink presents the research and practice from the Teaching for Effective Learning Programme in South Australia at the Centre for Systems Learning and Leadership at the...
View ArticleModelling Learning Dynamics
Shaofu Huang presented his doctoral research at a seminar of the Centre for Systems Learning and Leadership on Wednesday 24th April. This is an exciting application of complexity theory and systems...
View ArticleLearningEmergence team at Stanford July 1-5
The LearningEmergence team are prepping for the upcoming Learning Analytics Summer Institute, Stanford University (July 1-5). We’ll be running one of the workshops, exploring with colleagues from...
View ArticleComplexity and Pedagogy – Shanghai Workshop
Ruth, Chris and I have just spent an extraordinary week in Shanghai in an intensive, highly ‘emergent’ workshop designed to reimagine educational systems (research and practice) as complex adaptive...
View ArticleLearning Dispositions + Authentic Inquiry in a Primary School
What happens when you turn a curriculum topic over to 10-11 year old children, give them freedom to choose their focus, and increasing autonomy to make their own decisions to design, create and run a...
View ArticleLearning to Learn – International Perspectives
Learning to learn is crucial for success in our complex, unpredictable and data-drenched world. This new book from members of the Learning Emergence Network explores learning to learn from theory and...
View ArticleEdMedia 2014 keynote on learning analytics
At EdMedia 2014 [#edmediaconf] I enjoyed great AACE and Finnish hospitality The critical stance of my keynote there seemed to resonate with delegates, who hear a lot about “Big Data” and analytics, but...
View ArticleUniversities: core business (and analytics) in 2030?
Ruth and I have the privilege of working with Randy Bass [blog] and team at Georgetown University. Randy is a leading thinker around the deep purpose of higher education, and how this entails...
View ArticleLearning Power: new research identifies Mindful Agency as central to resilience
For learning in the complex world of risk, uncertainty and challenge, what matters is being able to identify, select, collect, collate, curate and collaboratively re-construct information to suit a...
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