Climate and health: 20 local solutions shared by health professionals at Teach to Reach
These 20 local solutions are drawn from Teach to Reach 11: Local action to mitigate the impact of the climate crisis on health. They are not…
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Panu Saaristo on NCDs in humanitarian settings: why local leadership is the missing key to humanitarian health
By Panu Eskola Saaristo, TGLF Fellow for Humanitarian Health Somewhere in a flooded district this week, a woman is trying to work out where next week’s…
New insights report: Health workers are leading community responses to climate change impacts on health
English | Français GENEVA, 4 June 2026 (The Geneva Learning Foundation) – The rainy season used to follow a pattern that everyone knew. From 2021 onwards,…
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Subject matter experts as a learning problem
Copenhagen. I chat with two “learning consultants”, whose job it is in their respective universities to help faculty improve how they teach. Much to my dismay,…
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We struggle with the measurement of learning. Elaborate frameworks compete for attention. The sophistication of complexity theory or fractals, the business speak of ROI, levels, pyramids,…
Humanitarian Leadership Academy merges with Save the Children UK
I asked three questions, four years ago, as a sympathetic observer eager to see a learning organization – launched with much fanfare and 20 million British…
The next big thing in learning
Will it be virtual reality (VR)? The promise of immersive, experiential learning is tantalizing. What about artificial intelligence (AI), if only to relieve humans of the…
Missed opportunities (2): How one selfish learner can undermine peer learning
The idea that adult learners have much to learn from each other is fairly consensual. The practice of peer learning, however, requires un-learning much of what…
Missed opportunities (1): making a dent requires rethinking how we construct medical education
“We are training 30 people to become doctors. My focus is on developing content for open educational resources (OER) that we can use to transmit foundational…
Why learning professionals should strive to be leaders, not just service providers
The learning landscape is changing fast. Even the most jurassic face-to-face trainers I know are now embracing the digital transformation or at least trying to. Ephemeral…
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Through their research on informal and incidental learning in the workplace, Karen Watkins and Victoria Marsick have produced one of the strongest evidence-based framework on how…
Why gamification is a disaster for humanitarian learning
Is gamification an advantageous strategy that can help increase knowledge and application when it comes to humanitarian responses? What are these advantages? Can gamification contribute to better…