Friday Fave: Digital Reality – Real learning in a virtual world

This week’s Friday Fave looks into the digital reality world of learning – augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), 360 video, and immersive technologies.

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The future of work and learning

Transforming learning in the digital workplace This week I will be presenting and running a workshop at the LearnTech Asia 2015 conference in Singapore (3-5 November) alongside an impressive line-up of reputable learning professionals such as Laura Overton (Towards Maturity, UK http://towardsmaturity.org/), Charles Jennings (70:20:10, Internet Time Alliance, UK http://internettimealliance.com/), Steve Wheeler (Plymouth Uni, UK), Clark Quinn…

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Vacancy: Postgrad Scholarship on social technology at work

At the Ripple Effect Group, we’re serious about contributing research that extends our practices in social technologies and the future of work.  That’s why we’ve partnered with the University of Sydney Business School to offer a PhD scholarship to work on a joint project in the fields of workplace application of social technologies and the future…

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Learning in the workplace of the future

Slides from my opening keynote presentation at the AITD (Australian Institute of Training & Development) National Conference in Sydney, Australia, 13 – 15 May 2015.

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Disrupt Learning

The current educational landscape is in the midst of a disruptive state with new technological developments, including the use of personal devices such as smartphones and tablets questioning the relevance institutional platforms. Challenges to current funding models in education will require, in some cases, a total review of economic models. While the phenomenal rise of…

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What do you LOVE about learning?

‘veI presented at 5 difference conferences and workshops over the last couple of  weeks – and collected some interesting data / responses to 2 questions: 1. What do you LOVE (or like) about learning?2. What do you dislike (not hate – I didn’t go there!) about learning? Here are the collated responses:1. What do you…

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Reframing Assessment #1

I’m doing some writing on/about assessment practices at the moment and relating it to some of my findings from my PhD research…So rather than a 15k word essay I’m going to use the Tiny URL approach and condense the key issues into a series a posts. To start the series, it feels appropriate to position…

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