Browsing the paper online this morning, I came across an article on overcrowding in lecture theatres in universities in Australia: http://www.theage.com.au/national/unis-packed-to-the-rafters-20090403-9rmj.html (Packed to the Rafters is the name of a popular TV series here in Australia.) This connected for me with my comments on the Australian Financial Review Conference around the need to start investing [...]

I found this presentation when I was checking out SlideShare recently, and thought I would share it with you. While it’s provided by a consultant in the education industry, it provides some  ’how-to’ ideas that apply not only to elearning, but more generally to presentations and writing. It also highlights the continuing challenge we all [...]

McKinsey Quarterly has published an article on Open Innovation: The Internet and new social-networking technologies are allowing companies and their customers to interact with unprecedented levels of richness. Some leading organizations are using this opportunity to draw customers into the heart of the product-development process. Co-creating products and services with customers, however, is uncertain territory [...]

Another video about the changing nature of learning, from a student’s perspective. This is one perspective on learning right now in 2008. Those of us who went to university in the 1970s or thereabouts will be able to compare and contrast their experience of universities with that of the students in this video. Some things [...]