Category: Embedded numeracy
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10 reasons why your adult education & training course has to go online or die a horrible death
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in 2015, ALEC, Business model generation, Disruption, Economy, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Export Education, Leadership, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, NCALNE, Online assessment, Online learning, Professional Development, Qualifications, Resources, Software, Technology, VideoIt’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…
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ALEC Profile Part 3: Strategic Situation and Competitive Environment
Here’s part three of our updated and online ALEC organisational profile. Next up, I need to update our business plan and turn that into an online resource as well. 3.1 ALEC Competitive Environment Competitive position The last few years have seen our several of our major competitors either stop delivering or stop receiving dedicated funding…
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As software eats education, education companies will become media companies… but what about teachers?
I’d love to claim this as an original thought, but it’s not. Well, really it’s a combination of several other people’s original thoughts. So here’s my semi-original thought for the day in the midst of all my work on our quality management system: As software eats education, education and training providers will become more like media…
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ALEC Profile Part 2: Organisational Relationships
Here’s Part 2 of our updated and now open-source 3-part organisational profile. Please comment if you have anything to say… 2.1 Organisational Structure Governance ALEC is a limited liability company founded in 2007 and wholly owned by the shareholders. The governance of ALEC lies with the two shareholders who are also the senior leadership of…
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Check out Damon’s Maths Blog
My good friend and colleague, Damon Whitten has just completed the numeracy intervention he’s been running as part of his PhD studies. You should really check out the great blog posts he’s been doing including the latest one. Here’s an excerpt: The end. Today I am cleaning out my office. Out go all the sketched…
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ALEC Profile Part 1: Organisational Environment
So now I’m updating our ALEC company profile and creating it as an online Google Doc that I can access and share anywhere anytime. The idea of an organisational profile is that it’s snapshot of an organisation and covers key organisational characteristics as well as summarises your strategic situation. Here’s a summary of ALEC’s operating environment below…
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Big changes ahead for adult literacy & numeracy educator qualifications
I’m excited about the fact the the tertiary landscape for adult literacy and numeracy educator qualifications is about to change dramatically. I’ll have more details as we get closer to 2015, but look out for the following: The 40 credit level 5 New Zealand Certificate in Adult Literacy & Numeracy Education (Vocational) or NZCALNE (Voc)…
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ALEC Processes Section 7: Outcomes
Here’s the last one (I promise)… Section 7 from our QMS describing processes for identifying and updating outcomes, results and achievements.
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ALEC Processes Section 6: Work Systems
Here’s my section 6 update on work systems. Like the others, these are a description of what actually happens (most of the time anyway…)
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ALEC Processes Section 5: Workforce
Here’s section 5 of our ALEC QMS processes redrafted using LucidCharts: