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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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…
Thinking about the first Red Cross Red Crescent MOOC
You have no doubt heard about the Red Cross or Red Crescent. Some of you may be first aiders or otherwise already involved as volunteers in…
Maybe old learning isn’t so bad, after all?
When I first saw Mary Kalantzis’s photos of a 1983 elementary school classroom in Greece, I scoffed. It was so obvious that the “communications and knowledge…
Maybe old learning isn’t so bad, after all?
When I first saw Professor Cope’s photos of a 1983 elementary school classroom, I scoffed. It was so obvious that the “communications and knowledge architecture” was…
The End of Paper: Interview with Richard Padley of Semantico
At the 2010 Tools of Change for Publishing conference in Frankfurt, we met Richard Padley of Semantico. He spoke at the conference about mobile platforms from…
Katja Mruck on starting a peer-reviewed open access journal
In 2001, Katja Mruck started a peer-reviewed multilingual open access journal FQS – Forum on qualitative social research. In this interview, recorded at the Third Conference…
Masooda Bano: the impact of international aid on volunteering and development
The negative impact of aid on development has been a recurring and controversial subject in recent years. Drawing on her extensive research in this field, Masooda…
Opening access to Red Cross knowledge: an interview with John Willinsky, Public Knowledge Project, Stanford University
Why are scholarly journals not obsolete? How does a journal contribute to learning? Why would the Red Cross need a scholarly journal? A lively conversation with…
Chronology of a new transit camp on the Tunisian border (Part 2 of 2): Going live
Part 1: Like clockwork | Part 2: Going Live 10:45 – The distribution of relief items starts At the far end of the camp, four volunteers…