No child should die from malaria: Thierno Abdoulaye Baldé’s story
The Geneva Learning Foundation runs peer learning for the people who deliver health care where it is hardest to deliver. Its courses ask participants not for…
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Teach to Reach 17: Share your experience, find new ways to solve your challenges
You are stuck on a problem at work. A colleague in another country has already solved it. How can you connect? Request your invitation to join…
Teach to Reach 16 Replay: Defying distance to learn and lead change, from menopause to malaria
258 health workers. 1,534 real stories. One question: how do we turn the tide against malaria? In Teach to Reach 16, the Geneva Learning Foundation gives…
The Geneva Learning Foundation Scholar Newsletter, issue 6 (6 August 2026)
Dear Scholar, On Thursday 6 August 2026, health professionals will gather for Teach to Reach 16 (what is this?). Leaders from TGLF’s Malaria: Turning the Tide programme…
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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…
Wishful thinking cannot fix broken tools
“Continuous learning at the individual level is necessary but not sufficient to influence perceived changes in [performance]. […] Learning must be captured and embedded in ongoing…
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Our connections include not only social life with colleagues, but also our personal lives with our partners, families and friends. Parental responsibilities, traffic jams in long…