» Fat or obese?
28/07/10 22:22 from Donald Clark Plan B
A row has erupted after a minister and prominent physician recommended that patients be called ‘FAT’ and not ‘obese’. Actually I don’t want politicians lecturing me at all on what vocabulary we should use in any context..

» Social media in the UK 2010
28/07/10 15:02 from Clive on Learning
This great little video from SimplyZesty , an agency specialising in Online PR and Social Media based in Dublin, contains some fascinating stats about social media usage in the UK. Check the website out because they hav..

» BTL Exhibits at e-Assessment Scotland 2010
28/07/10 10:00 from BTL | Learning & Assessment
BTL Group Ltd will be exhibiting at the e-Assessment Scotland Conference. The conference is being held at the University of Dundee on 3rd September 2010.

» Is informal learning more style than substance?
27/07/10 10:21 from Clive on Learning
The secret of a good debate is to choose a motion controversial enough to attract along a sizeable audience, but with enough subtleties and ambiguities that top quality speakers can explore without resort to dogmatism o..

» Epic announce the second E-Learning Debate
27/07/10 08:54 from The eLearning Network -
Following on from last year's highly successful inaugural debate at the Oxford Union, a prestigious 186-year-old debating society, Epic will be taking the oldest of topics, informal learning, and then weaving ..

» CIPD accused of incompetence in Telegraph
26/07/10 20:36 from Donald Clark Plan B
Jackie '405k per year' Orme comes under more pressure as the charge of unprofessionalism and incompetence appear in The Daily Telegraph (thanks to Garry Platt for the link). The Chief Executive of LSIS (Learning and Ski..

» $35 iPad for education
23/07/10 13:32 from Donald Clark Plan B
India’s Institute of Technology and the Institute of Science have launched an iPad lookalike for education. The touchscreen, Linux based, webcam (iPad doesn’t have one) wireless device is, according to Kapil Sibal, read..

» CIPDs Jackie Orme issues grovelling apology & pulls report
23/07/10 12:51 from Donald Clark Plan B
The CIPD have been forced to withdraw their report ‘ Quangos in the education and skill syst em’, and the hopeless and hapless Jackie Orme has had to offer a grovelling, written apology. Surely she has to go. She has co..

» Institute of Physics – record number of registrations
22/07/10 08:53 from Nelson Croom's Blog
by Rachel Bruce I recently met with Vishanti Fox at the Institute of Physics who has been creating and coordinating a campaign to market the online courses that we provide for them, to their members. IOP set themselves ..

» So how are people really using the iPad?
22/07/10 08:19 from Clive on Learning
A recent posting on Mashable reports some interesting data from Resolve Market Research based on an online survey of potential purchasers and active users of iPads, smart phones, e-readers and portable video game device..

» Robot teachers – endlessly patient, CPD updates in seconds
20/07/10 12:42 from Donald Clark Plan B
The article in the New York Times will no doubt drive traditionalists to apoplexy, so there must be something in this report about the rise of robots in schools. Imagine a teacher that is endlessly patient, always teach..

» UFI/Learndirect - reports of death greatly exaggerated
20/07/10 02:12 from Donald Clark Plan B
Michael Gove's endless, faulty lists were clearly a sign of his inexperience. This is what happens when ideology overrides good sense. To rob the budget for repairing existing schools to pay for new schools for middle-cl..

» Excel Everest
19/07/10 20:54 from Clive on Learning
Recently I got an email from 'Sean, a fellow learning theory/tool fiend... I'm also a first year student at Harvard Medical School but I just launched my own tech-heavy learning project on the side. It's called Excel Ev..

» Rather than getting depressed, get going
19/07/10 17:32 from Clive on Learning
In his posting Depressing study of L&D , Donald Clark quotes research by Coleman and Parkes in Spring of this year, which involved interviews with 100 key decision-makers at major UK companies. Apparently this showed th..

» What blogging has become
15/07/10 15:38 from Clive on Learning
A recent article in The Economist, The evolving blogosphere , clarified for me how blogs have changed over the past five years and where they now sit amongst the panoply of social media applications. Not so long ago it ..