Category: Executive Education
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What will education look like in the next 10 years?
Today, I found some notes about the future of education that I had scribbled down a few years back. They were just random thoughts. And there was no date on them, but they must be from at least 5 or so years ago. Reading them now, they already feel old. Internet time is a weird…
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10 Disruptive Ideas on How to Dominate Medical Cannabis Education
How would you go about dominating the medical cannabis education industry? Here are 10, actually 11, disruptive ideas from a NZ perspective.
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Ako Aotearoa Professional Learning & Development Workshops
Here’s something new below for this year from the team at Ako Aotearoa. I’m involved with Ako Aotearoa as a contractor in relation to the Tapatoru framework. Have a look and see if there is something there for you.
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What is agile? Part 4 – The spike
Here’s one more thing from the Agile Fundamentals course I did with my Auckland University Executive Education whanau. This part was a good takeaway in practical terms. It is something that is called a spike. A risk-based spike is kind of a proof of concept. It is a prototype, a real-time experiment of what you…
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What is agile? Part 3 – The Pareto principle
Here’s the third thing I learned from my recent Agile Fundamentals course at the University of Auckland with Steven Briggs. The Pareto principle is the 80/20 ratio that we sometimes hear about in time management. In this context, it’s a reminder to not overload people. In a nutshell, rather than working to a 100% productivity…
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What is agile? Part 2 – Context switching and switching costs
Here’s the second thing I learned from my recent Agile Fundamentals course at the University of Auckland with Steven Briggs. This is about what they call context switching and switching costs. Here’s a couple of questions: Is it better to be doing one project versus doing a whole lot of projects? In other words, are…
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Buy my latest eBook…! How to think like an entrepreneur when you work in education
My latest ebook is live this morning on Amazon…! This one has cartoons. You should probably buy it just for the cartoons. If you don’t like cartoons then you probably shouldn’t buy it. Even if you don’t like cartoons you might want to think more like an entrepreneur if you work in education.
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Why haven’t I self-published a book on how to embed literacy and numeracy into vocational training yet?
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in eBook, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Executive Education, Export Education, Improve teaching practice, Indigenous education, inform teaching, International education, Lean education, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Maori Literacy, Maori literacy initiatives, Maori literacy numeracy initiatives, Numeracy, self-publishing, Should we teach, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Teaching philosophy, You can teach betterNo good reason really… But today I spent about 12 hours learning how to use Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing suite of tools and resources. It was most interesting. I especially like that you can generate these previews above that show you what the final publication will look like. The actual editor tool is a bit…
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How can vocational teachers from Vietnam improve their teaching practice?
One of the ways is to come to New Zealand…! Yesterday I was very lucky to spend some time with a group of vocational teachers from Hanoi in Vietnam. They are in New Zealand for a three-month study tour with Massey University in Auckland learning how to improve their teaching practice. We spent the afternoon…
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I work in education… Why do I have to use tools from Service Design, UX and Agile?
Thank you, I understand. Welcome to the Brave New World. Your job and mine now require new kinds of tools and approaches. These tools and approaches aren’t part of the regular toolbox of tools most of us are familiar with in academic work. I’m talking about education but the same could equally apply to other…