Higher Education, Professional Development
Making
Learning Possible
Learning design, international learning, programme articulations
Diary Notes
BILD Connect Event January 21st 2011 - Teaching Learners to Lead and creating Leaders that Learn - BPP Professional Education - London.
The 23rd IABD conference will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana April 7-9, 2011. Note the AWARDS. eBusiness people get in touch - and we can also help people find other tracks.
Institutions and Individuals
While most of our work is with international universities and colleges, we are frequently asked for help by individuals so in the 'Quick links' on the left, you will find a number of sections aimed at students - both 'traditional' and lifelong learners. These sections are drawn from the experience of working with the programme design of universities and professional institutions all round the world so make the most of it and contact us to add to it if you would like to do so.
Useful networks and discussions
Social networking is growing up. Try the following links for professional networking and learning discussions:
News January 2011
Work for a US university designing and teaching a portfolio-based degree capstone and work on some UK third sector materials have kept us out of mischief this month.
There has also been design work on international degree articulations and tailored work teaching English for special and academic purposes.
Participation in the prestigious India-US Global Business and PR conference in Chennai saw our first use of picture-in-picture recording technology so that both talk and slides could be broadcast and saved to CD. Click for a less memory-intensive pdf version of the talk on the use of portfolios in lifelong learning.
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The
historic university city of
Salamanca, Spain,
was the setting for discussion on university governance and marketing.
Click for the basic model.
Centre for Recording Achievement
Online discussion 11 January 2011.
October 2010 Washington
2011 conference Call for Papers is here
Balancing Profitability and
Sustainability:
Shaping the Future of Business