Quality in humanitarian education
Humanitarian education is a huge undertaking. Each year, for example, 17 million trainees learn first-aid skills through face-to-face (FTF) training programmes run by the 189 National…
Author: Reda Sadki
The significance of technology for humanitarian education
First published in the World Disasters Report 2013: Focus on technology and the future of humanitarian action. Since the rise of the internet in the early 1990s, the…
Community health into the scalable, networked future of learning
Preface to the IFRC Global Health Team’s Training Guidelines (2013) by Reda Sadki “At the heart of a strong National Society” explains Strategy 2020, “is its nationwide…
Fahamu
Fahamu Pecou (b. 1975) is an artist/scholar based in Atlanta, Georgia whose works comment on contemporary and hip-hop culture while simultaneously subverting it to include his…
Power of Humanity, Power of Education: Presentation at the AIESEC Youth 2 Business Forum, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt (20 August 2013)
Power of Humanity, Power of Education from Reda Learning
ASTD Learning Executive Briefing: Reda Sadki
This article was first published by the ASTD’s Learning Executive Briefing. By Ruth Palombo Weiss Reda Sadki is the Senior Officer for Learning Systems at the…
Teaching logistics with haptic feedback
EPFL’s Professor Pierre Dillenbourg heads the Center for Digital Education. He demonstrates the use of a Simpliquity Tinkerlamp to teach logistics training, and explains how research has…
Learning in a VUCA world: IFRC FACT and ERU Global Meeting (Vienna, 31 May 2013)
Presentation at the IFRC FACT and ERU Global Meeting (Vienna, 31 May 2013), exploring how we learn in a complex world.
Accreditation in higher education is based primarily on inputs rather than outcomes
Burck Smith describes how accreditation is based primarily on a higher education institution’s inputs rather than its outcomes, and creates an “iron triangle” to maintain high…
Badges for online learning: gimmick or game-changer?
As I’ve been thinking about building a MOOC for the 13.1 million Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers, I’ve become increasingly interested in connectivism. One of the platforms I’ve discovered is…