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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Experience and blended learning: two heads of the humanitarian training chimera
Experience is the best teacher, we say. This is a testament to our lack of applicable quality standards for training and its professionalization, our inability to act on what has consequently become the fairly empty mantra of 70-20-10, and the blinders that keep the economics (low-volume, high-cost face-to-face training with no measurable outcomes pays the bills of many humanitarian workers, and per diem feeds many trainees…) of humanitarian education out of the picture.
The Design of a Learning System to Teach Analysis and Critical Thinking for Humanitarians
My presentation at the First International Forum on Humanitarian Online Training (IFHOLT) hosted by the University of Geneva on 12 June 2015. A more detailed version of…
Blame it on Plato
Even as computer-mediated communication is now embedded into nearly every aspect of life, the sentiment persists that written and therefore distance communication is intrinsically inferior. Here is the…
Publishing as learning
We are both consumers and producers of publications, whether in print or online. Publications are static containers for knowledge from the pre-Internet era. Even if they…
Why we secretly hate webinars
Webinars reproduce the structure and format of the formal training workshop in an online space. The sole positive distinction for participants is that they may now…
Why supposedly boring conference calls are actually amazing
Where phone and Skype remain the gold standard for one-to-one communication (and learning), many of us find value in conference calls, irrespective of the technology (phone,…
How do we use technology to embed learning into work?
Of the myriad technologies in use, we may find it useful to focus our attention on those that (1) are now widely used, to examine their…
Skepticism about learning innovation
Online technologies have afforded us many ways in which we can now learn even when we are not in the same location. Yet, some of us…
We need learning processes, not just tools
Knowledge management and informal learning processes are not resourced, even when the organization may have made a significant investment to build containers for knowledge or its…