I find that sometimes Learning Needs and Resource Assessment (LNRA) work can be limited to sending some questions to the people coming to a course/learning event. In my experience, it’s helpful to see LNRA work in phases. How does this strike you? Here is a chart that depicts my thoughts on this topic. What would […]
My newest passion about adult learning is depth. Whence depth? How can we be sure we are inviting and challenging learners to go deep! I want learners to not only learn the surface facts and figures, but to imagine implications, to reconstruct a concept to fit a context, to apply a skill and look at […]
When I was a kid, about twelve years old, I went to a YMCA special weekend called Inward Bound (the link isn’t to the same program, but this one is close, and looks great!). It was for kids all over the state and we learned about ourselves, about how we’re all different, and got some […]
It had been a grueling day and we were winding down for the night. This was our semi-annual Global Learning Partners business retreat and most of the core team was gathered together for more than three intensive days of work. I admit I was a little cranky, despite the gorgeous setting on the shores of […]
This short story will tell you a great deal about Global Learning PARTNERS. The partners and staff are having their summer meeting in Rhode Island at Valerie Uccellani’s parents’ home in early June. I received a sweet invitation to join them – not for the meeting – but for the good fellowship, good food, ocean […]
In my last blog post I wrote about our evolving educational systems and one of the things I mentioned was MIT’s Open Course Ware program and how great it is that they give away their courses for free. GLP’s astute marketing manager, Debra Cagwin, took some time to check out their offerings and uncovered their […]
We are living in revolutionary times when it comes to education. More and more, people are turning to the internet for their learning, and before too long I expect our entire educational system will be turned on its head because of “non-traditional” offerings. Even if the educational norms aren’t turned completely upside down, new models will […]
Paulo Freire continually asked, "What is to know?" I want to add another open question: How do you know you are right on, doing what folks truly need for their learning and yours? This week I realized: Joy is the measure. I feel and realize deep joy in learning and teaching – seeing groups of […]
In the TED video shown below, Simon Sinek talks about his discovery about what separates successful organizations, leaders, or entrepreneurs from those who are not. What made Apple, and Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Wright Brothers successful, when in each case there were plenty of others out there doing what they were doing? Sinek […]
Monday was a dark cold March day in Raleigh North Carolina. As I tried to get moving, and go to my morning swim, I found myself sluggish and slow. then I opened the laptop: VOILA! Peter Noteboom’s photo albums from his HAITI Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach course with PVO group leaders. Wow! Then […]