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November 9, 2015 · Global health

Lessons learned from Ebola

This is the first in a series of five blog posts reflecting on what is at stake in how we learn lessons from the Ebola crisis that…

October 19, 2015 · Innovation

Skunk Works: 14 rules to live and die by

Lockheed’s Skunk Works may be one of the earliest models for sustaining innovation inside an organization – never mind the nefarious mission of making flying machines to kill…

July 7, 2015 · Quotes

The idea of a university (updated)

So I’m reading John Henry Newman’s The Idea of a University, which begins by asserting that the university “is a place of teaching universal knowledge”. I’m fascinated by…

July 6, 2015 · Quotes

MOOCs for teachers, then and now

In February, Daniel Seaton and his colleagues shared data about the very high level of teacher participation (28% identified as past or present teachers) and engagement…

June 29, 2015 · Events

Education Moonshot Summit

This should be fun (and interesting). I’ll be heading to Amsterdam on July 21st for Google EDU’s Moonshot Summit. This event aims to bring “together top innovators…

June 24, 2015 · Learning strategy

Choose your own adventure

This is my presentation at the Online Learning Summit in London on 16 June 2015. I asked participants to choose between a set of four questions:…

June 14, 2015 · Design

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.