Does asking your company to pay for a technical training outside of those offered by your learning department feels a bit like asking someone to cover the tab because you forgot your wallet? It shouldn’t. It is a well-supported fact that employees that get relevant training opportunities and feel like …
The Teacher is Dead — Long Live the Teacher.
In a lecture setting, it is presumed that that the words uttered by sage individuals in the front of the class will drift out through the room to eternally embed themselves in the memory of the spongily attentive students. Yet there are a few problems with this picture. The role …
Take back the Test — how Technology can Help
We have, since the 1800’s and perhaps a bit before, lived and learned in the industrial age of education. Our learning institutions were built to produce minds fattened on facts in the feedlots, I mean classrooms. At the end of the process, we get the blurred blue stamp — pass, fail, grade …