Speaking about Networking in Valencia

Posted on June 10, 2010 by anthony

I’m currently in Valencia for the EDEN (European Distance and E-Learning Network) 2010 annual conference, and am presenting one of the projects I’m currently working on, namely TelEurope.eu. The means of doing this is by presenting a paper during the session International E-Learning Initiatives: Strategy and Practice. The paper, is titled Engaging the Community in Multidisciplinary TEL Research: A Case-Study from Networking in Europe.

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Teaching Inclusive Education in the Balkans

Posted on June 2, 2010 by anthony

I have spent the last several months working with some friends at the Centre for Education Policy in Serbia on a project called “Mapping Policies and Practices for Inclusion in Contexts of Social and Cultural Diversity”, financed by the European Training Foundation. Together with a team of 27 experts from throughout the region, we have put together 7 country reports, looking at the situation in each of the countries in the Western Balkans.

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EqDes: A theme for Concrete5

Posted on May 8, 2010 by anthony

As part of my work on the EQUnet project, I have developed a website on the C5/Concrete5 platform. There are not that many that many themes available for this CMS, so I decided to develop my own, which I have made available here.

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A Great Resource on Stakeholder Analysis

Posted on May 6, 2010 by anthony

I was doing some research into the theory of stakeholder analysis for an article I am preparing for the EDEN Conference this June. In doing so, I came across an excellent article which gives a brief overview of all the main methods for stakeholder analysis. Continue reading →

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Finding a Holiday apartment in Croatia

Posted on July 10, 2009 by anthony

Its mid-July, and am in panic trying to find holiday accommodation, for a little relaxation on a Croatian island. After days looking at the same fully-booked apartments on tens of apartment booking websites, I finally found a better way to book apartments in Croatia. Here’s my easy four step guide ;-) : Continue reading →

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Education Scenarios Part 5: Observations from the Scenarios

Posted on June 6, 2009 by anthony

In the final part of our 5 part series giving an overview of future education scenarios (Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 here), we attempt to make our own set of conclusions regarding the future of education and training systems in Europe. Our conclusions are based on an analysis of the various scenarios proposed by different authors, and thus, mainly constitute an attempt to find grounds of commonality and agreement between the various scenario building exercises which have been undertaken in the past years.

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Education Scenarios Part 4: Scenarios that relate the development of learning systems to a specific driver of change

Posted on June 1, 2009 by anthony

In this fourth part of a 5 part series (Parts 1, 2, 3, 5 here), we look at scenarios which have been built to predict the effect of particular change drivers on the entire learning system. In particular, the article looks at scenarios on the future of research in education, and on the effect ICT will have on education systems.

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Education scenarios part 3: Scenarios that Illustrate change forces affecting a sector of education and training

Posted on May 30, 2009 by anthony

Part 3 of this 5 part series looks at specific scenario projections which have been made in various different educational fields, particularly, within compulsory education, VET and Higher Education. It draws on work from a number sources, particularly that of the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation within the OECD. To view the other parts click here: (Parts 1, 2, 4, 5)

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Education Scenarios Part 2: Scenarios that embrace the entire development of learning systems

Posted on May 30, 2009 by anthony

This is part 2 of the series of Education Scenarios. Click to read Parts 1, 3, 4, 5

With regards to scenarios that embrace the entire development of learning systems, Carneiro, describes tree scenarios of a learning society, focusing on the interactions of three key variables: paradigm shifts; delivery modes; and driving forces. According to him (9):

“A summation of the 3 by 3 resulting combinations could be briefly described in the following matrix:

¨ Paradigm shifts: from industry (past), to globalisation (present thrust), and moving towards a New Renaissance period (utopian vision).

¨ Delivery modes: from uniform, rote systems (past) to segmented distribution (present market-driven trend), and gradually accommodating increasing levels of personalisation/customisation (utopian vision).

¨ Driving forces: from bureaucracy-led (past preference for national or State-controlled systems) to market-led arrangements (present move), which, in turn, should give way to empowered communities (utopian vision of a radical devolution to civil society).”

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Scenario Building for Education

Posted on May 26, 2009 by anthony

The first article of a several part series (read parts 2, 3, 4, 5), this article looks at the role of scenarios as a tool for creating better education policies. Produced for the Learnovation project, it considers Approaches to Scenario Building, the rationale for their use, criticisms of the technique, as well as an explanation of how the next articles in the series will be approached.

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