Will it Blend? A Presentation at Online Educa 2009
This morning I presented in the “The Moodle Experience: Moodle in Practice and New Developments” pre-conference session at the Online Educa in Berlin. My talk was titled “Will it Blend” and the slides...
View ArticleOpen Source: Getting Failure for Free (Online Educa 2009)
On the last day of the Online Educa I did a talk titled “Open Source: Getting Failure for Free (and Why That is a Good Thing)”. Whenever I talk about open source it is like preaching to the converted:...
View Article(Auto) Presence: Increasing Team and Network (Communication) Efficiency and...
Arjen Vrielink and I write a monthly series titled: Parallax. We both agree on a title for the post and on some other arbitrary restrictions to induce our creative process. For this post we agreed to...
View ArticleThe Future of Moodle and How Not To Stop It (iMoot 2010)
Yesterday morning I got up at 6:30 to deliver a presentation at the very first virtual Moodlemoot: iMoot 2010. All in all it was a hugely enjoyable experience. I had people attending from among other...
View ArticleInformal Learning “Broadening the Spectrum of Corporate Learning”
On November 8th 2010 I delivered a keynote at the second Symposium of the Dommel Valley Group in Eindhoven. The theme of the day was “Informal Learning”. My presentation touched on the “Learning DNA”...
View ArticlePrivacy and the Internet – A Talk at the HvA
Bits of Freedom is doing important work (and are effective in the way they do their job). I am therefore honoured to ocassionally field some of their speaker requests. Today I presented at the...
View ArticleDigital Civil Rights: a Guest Lecture
Today I had the pleasure of doing a guest lecture for Bits of Freedom at the University of Leiden in a course titled Anthropology of Information Society. I used many examples to try and drive home two...
View Article9 Questions for All Learning Professionals in 2011
This week I needed to create a small presentation which could help learning professionals do some forward thinking. I decided to repurpose an earlier keynote given to the Dommel Valley group (you can...
View ArticleDutch Presentation about the Quantified Self (Leren is Meten Weten)
I presented the following keynote (in Dutch) at the the e-Learning Event 2012 (an English version of this message is available here): Deze presentatie legt in vijf delen uit waarom de trend om jezelf...
View ArticleLearning from the Outside, How External Focus Can Help Learning and Development
This presentation delivered on April 19 for the Irish Centre for Business Excellence Network tries to address why things are not changing fast enough in the (corporate) learning world by pointing out...
View ArticleThe Quantified Self and What it Means for Learning
In early April I presented (in Dutch) at the e-Learning Event about the quantified self and learning. I have now translated the slides into English as I think the topic is important enough. The...
View ArticleWerken = Leren & Leren ≠ Werken
Today I keynoted the Dutch Moodlemoot (mootnl12). I talked about how current times force us to let go of curricula, why it is more important than anything else to teach students how to learn, what it...
View ArticleWill it Blend? Blended Learning and Quality
A few days ago I presented at a teacher’s conference at the Hogeschool Utrecht (HU) on the topic of Blended Learning and Quality. Naturally I started the talk with one of the Will it blend? videos: I...
View ArticleLearning. Who is responsible?
A hero: Ivan Illich Just now I delivered a keynote at the 20th Annual Israeli Learning Conference. I was there at the kind invitation of HR Israel and Amir Elion. My talk was pitched as follows: Over...
View ArticleA Short Video-Interview About Self-Organized Learning
Marcel de Leeuwe and I will be hosting a workshop on do-it-yourself learning at this year’s Dutch e-learning event. Marcel did a short interview with me about the topic as a warming-up exercise. In the...
View ArticleSelf Organized Learning Environments: An Assignment
This post is an assignment for the participants of the “Sociale media voor Leren en Veranderen in Organisaties en Netwerken”-leergang by En Nu Online. (Click here to get a Google Translated Dutch...
View ArticleChanging the Responsibility for Learning
Last week has been a busy week with both the E-learning Event and a webinar for En Nu Online. I’ll share some of the presentations that I did in this short post. Based on my presentation at last year’s...
View ArticleDelivery Models for Learning
Marcel de Leeuwe, Ruud Smeulders and I hosted a Masterclass on Learning Business Models at the Dutch E-learning Event. TU Delft’s Pieter de Vries has written a solid report (in Dutch) about this...
View ArticleDutch Moodlemoot in Amsterdam 27-05-2009
The Dutch Moodle users group (Ned-Moove) organised the fifth Dutch language Moodlemoot in Amsterdam last Wednesday. It was a successful event with nearly a hundred people attending and two excellent...
View Article10 Things to Like About Moodle
It was always my intention to write a post summarising last April’s Moodlemoot in Loughborough in the UK. It was a highly enjoyable event with many Moodle luminaries present and there was much to write...
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