Jake Broadhurst

Everything you ever wanted to know about outcome mapping

2008-10-24T15:08:00.003Z

Outcome Mapping for Insight to Impact Meeting

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Brain drain or brain circulation?

2008-06-19T14:45:00.007Z

Brain drain or brain circulation? A World Bank publication. Diaspora Networks and the International Migration of Skills: How Countries Can Draw on Their Talent Abroad.

University partnerships can play a massive role in brain circulation! Career pathways back home are the key to avoiding brain drain.

Neil Turok: 2008 TED Prize wish: An African Einstein

2008-06-19T12:31:00.006Z

An inspirational call for all educators everywhere!

BarCamp Scotland 2008

2008-01-22T10:41:00.001Z

BarCamp is back in Edinburgh on 2nd Febraury 2008. The first Scottish BarCamp a year back was a truly inspirational event & this years looks all round bigger, stronger & even more supported.

Some cut n’ pasted details:

BarCamp Scotland will be held on Saturday the 2nd of February 2008 from 10.00 to 21.00 GMT in the Concourse of the Appleton Tower at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The night before on Friday, the 1st of February, BarCampScotland will be launch with a cocktail party and presentations on "Digital Arts, Sound Design and Media" in the Alison House in the School of Architecture at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland. BarCamp Scotland will start at 18.00 on Friday and end at 21.00.

Friday night will be "Digital Arts and Media"; Saturday's theme will be "Web 2.0, Social Networking (Facebook especially), The Intersection of Arts and Informatics, The Intersection of Cleantech and Information Technology, Mobile applications, Open Innnovation, Software as a Service, Consumer robotics applications, Educational Software, eLearning, Web 3.0 and Virtual Worlds and Environments".

Sign up at http://barcamp.org/BarCampScotland2008

educa berlin 2007

2007-11-28T13:00:00.000Z

The more I work with colleagues from around the world, the more I see common challenges in online learning. The session on eL in development cooperation covered some excellent monitoring and evaluation issues.

Now looking forward to the plenary from Sian Bayne on Virtual worlds in education

2007-06-19T14:17:00.001Z

JISC Conference 2007

2007-03-14T10:32:00.001Z

Top networking and some useful presentations....

Especially Tom Loosemore's candid talk about BBC 2.0 and their 15 Web Principles. I wonder how this list should be adapted for an HE context.

The JISC Infonet Camel Project have some excellent ideas for partnerships for sharing knowledge and practice in e-learning adapted from collaborative visiting networks of South American farmers. Also had a useful chat with Seb Schmoller from ALT about sharing practice for large scale international distance learning.

I liked the HEFCE mention of the need for the sector to get on with High Quality and Mass Education.

The session on lifelong learning exclusively focused on vocational skills and people entering the workforce. The locus in the lifelong learning sector is heavily orientated towards the needs of vocational workers and not people who contribute to the knowledge economy. The UK government commissioned Leitch Review of Skills, Prosperity for all in the global economy - world class skills suggests that the lifelong learning debate be wider.

The JISC eL Pedagogy Programme is still turning out practical tips on teaching and learning online, but perhaps focusing too much on early adpoters and rather missing the rest of humanity.

There is a whole load of commentry and other stuff from the event on the JISC website.

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UKeU 0 : OUAustralia 1

2007-03-06T15:06:00.001Z

Take a selection of the nations best universities, build a shared e-learning platform and open the doors to the rest of the world....

This story has remarkably different endings depending whether you happen to be talking about the United Kingdom or Australia.

Demand from students for online courses at Open Universities Australia could soon outstrip the supply from current providers according to the Times Higher (subscription article). Given the Australian's ability to get this so right that they risk not being able to keep up with demand, where did it all go so wrong for the UK eUniversity? “The failure of the UKeU” - the House of Commons Report has some answers. I still struggle get it.

regurgitated echoes

2007-03-05T12:33:00.001Z

This piece by Furious Season strikes a chord and weirdly draws me into doing something that (1) the authors guards against and (2) I've felt uneasy about all along...

The sad fact is that no one will care too much because no one knows the difference anymore between intelligent reporting and regurgitated information repeated endlessly in little echoes around the Net by people who have no fucking idea what they are talking about (this may be true of me sometimes, as well) and would have no idea how to hold the government or big corporations accountable if their lives depended on it.

Furious Seasons

Benchmarking and strategy quest

2007-03-04T18:30:00.001Z

Developing strategy and vision needs perspectives from beyond the organisation and sector. This year I hope to present at Educa Berlin attend Educause Seattle

Online Educa Berlin, November 28 – 30, 2007 is all about increasing your skills and knowledge in e-learning. You can: * explore the latest developments * share experience * expand your network and knowledge.

EDUCAUSE 2007, October 23–26 in Seattle, Washington.Focused on the theme “Information Futures: Aligning Our Missions".

BarCampScotland inspires blog

2007-03-04T13:00:00.000Z

The inspirational 'unconference' BarCampScotland has given me the motivation to start this blog to help me share and organise thoughts around online learning. It is likely to have a bent towards online distance learning as this is my current career focus.

I’m not sure how this blog will evolve and I hope it will cover a number of fields relating to online learning including (but not limited to):

Technologies; strategy and business models; pedagogies; personnel development; marketing; change management; intellectual property rights; ICT in international development; the list keeps growing....