Archive for the 'teaching and innovation' Category

Are you a 21st century teacher?

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Your students are already using technology as part of their daily lives and increasingly expect to use it for learning at school. Are you a 21st century teacher?

2010 Horizon report

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Mobile computing, Open content, Augmented Reality, electronic books, gesture computing, visual data analysis all within 3 years?

Teacher skills vital to avoid “crisis of relevance”?

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

At a recent conference the new Vice Chancellor of the Open University alerted delegates to what he described as a growing “crisis of relevance” in our schools and colleges.

2010 predictions from Mark Anderson

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Global technological advances usually take some time to dribble down into the education system. This time lag creates what what Martin Bean, Vice Chancellor of Open University, recently described as “the crisis of relevance facing education”.