by Chris Heron | Nov 15, 2016 | Assessment, Education in the future, Education now
Teachers of course, after all they are paid to do it. They are the experts aren’t they? After all, schools were set up to educate. I have read many reports of wonderful teachers who have achieved this and that. So a short blog as it’s clearly the teacher who REALLY...
by Chris Heron | Nov 15, 2016 | Learning technology
Where next? Despite all the excellent work on chunking and JiTT (Just in Time Learning) and the changing needs of 21c learning, the top-down, liner approach remains the most popular teaching and training method disenfranchising many of out future workforce. The brave...
by Chris Heron | Nov 14, 2016 | Education in the future
Abstract I have always defined the purpose of education as producing a ‘sustainable citizen’, someone who takes responsibility for themselves and thinks about contributing to solving problems, personal, local and global. Without getting too embroiled in semantic...
by Chris Heron | Nov 14, 2016 | Education now
In order to answer the question ‘is education fit for purpose? we need to decide what that purpose is. In ‘Can education reform produce sustainable citizens’, I proposed that one objective of education is to produce sustainable citizens. A sustainable citizen is...
by Chris Heron | Nov 14, 2016 | Education now, Steve Cushing
Here are a true question and answer from an exam set at Oxford University and found by an assessor evaluating the marking scheme and marks awarded. Needless to say, there was a long discussion about the merit of this answer. Neither the result or the mark was changed!...
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