Tag: education business

The Educator Entrepreneur: Don’t Bring a Whiteboard Marker to a Knife Fight – 17 Prescriptions for a Better Life

Sep 4, 2020

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, educator, Educator’s Journey, Executive Education, Export Education, Indigenous education, International education, Lean education, NCALNE (Educator), The rise of the educator-entrepreneur

Education is a tough business to work in. And that’s true if you are a teacher, a trainer, or any kind of specialist educator. Over the years, I’ve thought a lot about how to survive and hopefully thrive in a rapidly changing educational landscape.
Becoming Antifragile in Education – 4 Things You Can Do Right Now

Jan 3, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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How to become antifragile so every blow makes you stronger Nassem Taleb is an expert on risk and probability and he recommends in his latest book that we become less fragile, more robust, and actually antifragile. This is more than just Sissy Resilience… and this means that when the stuff hits the fan you actually bounce back…
MOOC 2.0 – Why the future of online learning is about embedding foundational literacy, numeracy, and learning-to-learn skills

Sep 29, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Business improvement, Design, Disruption, Economy, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Flipped, Graeme Smith, Hacking, Improve teaching practice, NZ

If you work in education or you’re just interested in education you’ve probably been following the developments of MOOCs – Massively Open Online Courses. Debate around the MOOCs tends to be polarised. I’m always interested in anything in education that creates such strong emotional responses regardless of which side of the fence you tend to sit…
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…
Free Online Assessment for NCALNE (Voc)

Jul 16, 2012

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Graeme Smith

in Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Free, Literacy and Numeracy, Maori Literacy, NCALNE, Online assessment, Online learning, Professional Development, Qualifications, Uncategorized

Recognition of Current Competency (RCC) or Prior Learning (RPL) Assessment for NCALNE (Voc) If you already have the skills, knowledge, and evidence to prove it, you could gain the National Certificate in Adult Literacy and Numeracy Education (Vocational/Workplace) quickly. ALEC are offering a free online assessment to determine whether the FastTrack process is for you.…
How we let assessment drive our training

Jun 10, 2012

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Graeme Smith

in Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, Maori Literacy, NCALNE, Professional Development, Qualifications

Here’s a snippet from the document I’ve been writing up over the weekend. Below is quite a good short summary of how the training is organized and how the assessment tasks pretty much shape the delivery and everything we do around this. Our training curriculum for the National Certificate in Adult Literacy and Numeracy Education…
Software will eat education Part 1- Or what I really don’t want from an online education platform

May 16, 2012

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Graeme Smith

in Economy, Edtech, Education, Literacy and Numeracy

What’s the difference between a standard sort of website and a website designed for doing education online? Hard to know really… but perhaps quite a lot actually is what I’m finding out. Basically, your standard kind of template driven brochure websites, even the ones with all the bells and whistles, are fundamentally different from what…