Edukateam in the digital era was a 3-day online forum discussing the main skills challenges faced by organisations globally. The event brought together experts from the north and the south to share their views to 500 participants on digital development. I participated in a session discussing the importance of putting Read more…
This March Don Presant led a workshop panel of innovative practitioners that explored examples and case studies from North America, Europe and Africa in a Webinar titles “Putting the Pieces Together: Getting Started with Micro-Credentials in Global Perspective“. The panel included: Gwen Zeldenrust, co-chair of the Micro-credential Strategy at Mohawk Read more…
SkillSafari and Pathfinder Senegal have entered into a strategic partnership with aims to bring vocational skills available for the informal sector in Senegal and Ivory Coast, based on an identified competency gap. The cooperation consists of a joint offering of skills validation and training programmes, aiming at strengthening the employability Read more…
The challenge For many years Finnish education organisations ranging from public schools to edtech companies have struggled in entering the African continent and getting engaged in meaningful proejcts there. The often heard explanation is that the lack of success is dues to lack of funding from Finland and also the Read more…
The challenge The Finnish lifelong learning foundation implemented an interesting project “Media Literacy for Sustainable Society” in Palestine. During the project the know-how of the local media educators was updated, and a group of new media educators was trained and equipped with the latest teaching methods and materials. Towards the Read more…
The use of Open Badges in professional development of teachers is an extension to traditional teacher professional development initiatives. Existing teacher ICT Skills frameworks set a clear baseline for developing skills criteria and professional development goals for teachers globally. At the same time Badges support self-directed learning and micro certification Read more…
Challenge The Aalto University Sustainable Metals Processing Master’s programme has not manages to attract enough students for the past years, which is a shame given the relevancy of the the subjects studies in the final years. Unfortunately students are not well enough informed of what the study programme consists of Read more…
The year 2020 surprised and shocked education systems on all corners of the world, from North to South and from West to East. The digitalisation of education, which has been a part of education strategies everywhere became the new normal practically overnight. In Africa, various actors have tried or are Read more…
Using Open Badges in professional development of teachers is an extension to traditional teacher professional development initiatives. Existing teacher ICT Skills frameworks set a clear baseline for developing skills criteria and professional development goals for teachers globally. At the same time Badges offer an interesting new paradigm to self-directed learning Read more…
EdTalk organised an interesting webinar on the future of learning with special focus on winning tools and practices of online learning. During the webinar I discussed the overall change learning has gone through and in what to consider when planning distance and/or eLearning. I shortly explain the changing role of Read more…