“Students are the future, but what’s the future for students? To arm them with the relevant, timeless skills for our rapidly changing world, we need to revolutionize what it means to learn.”

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Timely and timeless skills (ashleytan.wordpress.com)

31Jul2012

International Reads: Defining 21st Century Skills and Delivering School Transparency « Center on International Education Benchmarking

Posted in Education by red rabbit skills services

International Reads: Defining 21st Century Skills and Delivering School Transparency « Center on International Education Benchmarking.

9May2012

Prior Learning

Posted in Adult Learning, Education, Education and Training, prior learning by red rabbit skills services

By Dean Dad from Inside Higher Education – very interesting piece about Prior Learning:

“If you haven’t seen Paul Fain’s piece in IHE about credit for prior learning, check it out. It’s a great introduction to a topic that it ready to break big over the next couple of years.

The piece points out, correctly, that two major national organizations — ACE and CAEL — have established increasingly popular protocols for measuring prior learning and awarding appropriate academic credit. Campuses have generally been circumspect about mentioning that, for reasons both valid and, well, not as much.

A few thoughts on prior learning from a community college perspective:

1. We need to be absolutely clear on the difference between “prior learning” and “life experience.” They are not remotely the same thing…

2. Faculty resistance and conflicts of interest. The folks on the non-credit/corporate training side of the college have been pushing “credit for non-credit learning” for years. I’ve been reluctant to move too quickly on that for fear of setting off thermonuclear war with the faculty, who would likely respond to any hint of alternate routes for academic credit as an existential threat. It’s a sticky area… “

South African Qualifications Authority link for Recognition of Prior Learning:

http://www.saqa.org.za/show.asp?id=591

Eportfolios in the Australian Tertiary Sector (eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com)

3May2012

MIT and Harvard Announce edX

Posted in Education, elearning by red rabbit skills services

Joint venture builds on MITx and Harvard distance learning; aims to benefit campus-based education and beyond.

Announced on the Harvard Gazette.

“Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) today announced the launch of edX, a transformational partnership in online education. Through edX, the two institutions will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community of online learners.”

MIT and Harvard announce edX (adafruit.com)
MIT and Harvard EdX partnership will put interactive courses online (theverge.com)

2May2012

12 Dozen places to educate yourself online for free

Posted in Education, Learning by red rabbit skills services

Lists from Marc and Angel Hack Life – thanks to them for extensive lists – follow the link to see the lists:

“All education is self-education. Period. It doesn’t matter if you’re sitting in a college classroom or a coffee shop. We don’t learn anything we don’t want to learn.

Those people who take the time and initiative to pursue knowledge on their own are the only ones who earn a real education in this world. Take a look at any widely acclaimed scholar, entrepreneur or historical figure you can think of. Formal education or not, you’ll find that he or she is a product of continuous self-education.

If you’re interested in learning something new, this article is for you. Broken down by subject and/or category, here are several top-notch self-education resources I have bookmarked online over the past few years.”

Image below and content from this link: http://www.marcandangel.com/2010/11/15/12-dozen-places-to-self-educate-yourself-online/

Educate Yourself Online For Free… (onmymindwriter.wordpress.com)
Engaging with Open Educational Resources (slideshare.net)

28Apr2012

Evaluating Learning in the Workplace

Posted in Adult Learning, Education, Education and Training, Learning for Work, Uncategorized, Workplace Learning by red rabbit skills services

Evaluating learning – article from Personnel Today

“Richard Paul Grifﬁn, associate director at the Institute of Vocational Education at London South Bank University, presents a new way of approaching evaluation based on a review of how organisations currently evaluate learning in Workplace learning evaluation: a conceptual model and framework (registration required).

His model of workplace learning is based on ﬁve elements: a pre-learning stage; the “trigger” (need) for learning; the learning event; application of learning; and the impact of learning.

His aim is to provide what he calls a “scientiﬁcally robust but practitioner-friendly framework for workplace learning evaluation”.

Griffin’s approach may provide some new focus on the best ways evaluate the impact of learning interventions.”

Image from Training Assessment Education: http://www.logicoolsolutions.com/learnDoMasterChallenge/?p=1305 (Accessed 28/04/2012).

http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2012/04/23/58483/measuring-the-impact-of-learning-quick-fire-links.html (Accessed 28/04/2012).

This framework in my view is very useful. Check out the model here:

http://lsbu.academia.edu/RichardGriffin/Papers/1003499/Workplace_learning_evaluation