Learning from Frontline Health Workers in the Climate Change Era
By Julie Jacobson, Alan Brooks, Charlotte Mbuh, and Reda Sadki The escalating threats of climate change cast long shadows over global health, including increases in disease…
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Semaine mondiale de la vaccination: Que voyez-vous?
English version | Version française Ceci est la préface de la nouvelle publication Les visages de la vaccination. En savoir plus… Télécharger la collection… Chaque jour,…
Rethinking the “Webinar”: Sage on Screen, Guide on Side, or Both?
By Donna Murdoch, Ed. D. for The Geneva Learning Foundation A search for the keyword “webinar” on Google reveals over 85 million hits. How do we develop…
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Make a wish
Is the CLO really the ‘fifth wheel’ in the organizational strategy wagon? Learning leaders tend to roll their eyes upward in sour-faced agreement about ending up as an after…
Unified Knowledge Universe
“Knowledge is the economy. What used to be the means has today become the end. Knowledge is a river, not a reservoir. A process, not a…
Vanishing point
Two parallel lines look like they eventually converge at the horizon. Technology’s chase for digital convergence, say between television and the Internet, raises interesting questions of…
Scaling up critical thinking against extreme poverty
In three years, the World Bank’s e-Institute enrolled 50,000 learners through small, tutor-led online courses and webinars. Its first MOOC, run on Coursera’s platform for four…
Opening workplace learning
For organizations, the paradigm of workplace learning remains focused on internal development of staff, on the premise that staff need to be learning to improve, if only…
Bill Gates on education, MOOCs, poverty and disease
This quote is not new. Given the increasing focus of MOOC debates on corporate MOOCs, it is interesting because bridging gaps in knowledge and skills is…
Back to London on Thursday to talk learning strategy for humanitarian and development organizations
I’m looking forward to being back in London on Thursday 13 March for People In Aid’s Learning & Development network meeting. This group meets four times…
Meet Barbara Moser-Mercer, the lady who did MOOCs in a refugee camp
I first heard her described as the “lady who did MOOCs in a refugee camp”. It was completely ambiguous what that meant, but certainly sparked my…
European MOOC Summit: What looks tasty – for organizations thinking about transforming how they learn
This is a quick overview of what I found of interest for international and non-governmental organizations in the program of the Second European MOOC Summit – possibly…
Learning beyond training, to survive and grow
Humanitarian organizations already organize and deliver training on a massive scale. For example, the Red Cross and Red Crescent train 17 million people each year to…