Category: Business model generation

Don’t be spooked by the MOOC – Podcast

Jul 24, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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2014 ANZ Business Plan Competition – Anyone Keen…?

Jul 22, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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The ANZ bank are running their annual business plan competition again. It’s a great opportunity for people to have a crack at winning some prize money and business related support. You can submit a plan for a new business idea or an existing business. According to the blurb on their website: Are you a start-up…
How can we open source our training and still make money working in education?

Jul 22, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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It’s a good question… and one that is constantly in my mind as the owner of a small niche education business in a very small country. I’m not sure I’ve got the answer, but this is how I see the way forward at the moment. What I’m describing below is a process that for us…
How does ALEC’s business model work?

May 28, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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ALEC’s business model is something that we have given a significant amount of thought to, especially in recent years. As a government-funded training organisation we are fortunate to have access to a dedicated funding stream for our main education product, the National Certificate in Adult Literacy & Numeracy Education (Vocational/Workplace) – otherwise known as the…
ALEC Purpose, Vision, Mission, Values

May 27, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Some tweaking going on here for the latest version of our business plan… Any comments gratefully received: Purpose: Why do we exist? ALEC exists to provide innovative solutions, expertise, professional development and training in adult literacy and numeracy education to industry, communities, government, and our own sector. Vision: Where are we going? ALEC’s vision is…
Self driving car as a metaphor for the future of education

May 23, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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I’m a bit slow. I only just made this connection. The guy who invented the self driving car is now trying to create the self driving car for education. His name is Sebastian Thrun and he’s CEO of Udacity.com a kind of online university offering free and subscription-based via their online platform. I need to unpack their business…
10 reasons why your adult education & training course has to go online or die a horrible death

May 15, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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It’s the economics stupid…! That’s my conclusion to myself at least. Education is expensive. This is because of high fixed costs like buildings, resources, managers, teachers. The technology for online education is now cheap. Educational bureaucracies are firing the middle layer of managers. In fact, traditional bureaucracies of any kind are firing the entire middle class. This…
NZDipALN: Assessment Task 1 – Develop a Personal Approach to Strengthening Adult LN

Apr 11, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Here’s the second draft of the first assessment task for our new New Zealand Diploma of Adult Literacy and Numeracy. The plan is that this will be part of an online and open education course through the PathwaysAwarua.com platform. You’ll still have to pay for assessment and credentials, but the information and training component will be…
12 Steps You Can Take to Disrupt Education

Apr 7, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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I know, I know… you’d rather not. Nor would any of us really, but I’m working on a manifesto for disrupting education. This is not because I think I know how to do it, but rather because I think it’s inevitable and I want to set myself something to work towards. These are some of…
OMG I’m so OCD (Or Digital Tools for my Digital Toolbox)

Apr 3, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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I have a new goal… I’m trying to significantly reduce the amount of paper that I file and store. I’d like to eliminate three huge filing cabinets and shift everything, or nearly everything, to a completely online and mostly paperless system. I’m planning on using Evernote to do this in combination with the camera on my…