Tag: professional learning
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Institutional readiness for the future of education
There is an increase in demand for skills-based education, largely arising from the perceived impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on a wide range of professions, industries and job sectors. Formal education providers need to consider how this demand will influence and inform the future provision of educational programmes and the broader, lifelong learning offer. Impacts…
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Expanding the role of higher education: professional learning
Short post. Open thinking. UK higher education is going through a period of significant change and it looks like it will continue for some time to come. Office for Students (OfS) financial sustainability forecasts in May 2025 were grim reading and six months later their update did not hold back with language of “tough decisions”,…
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Skills-first: responding to the threat to higher education
Short post. Open thinking. Here’s an angle on where we are at this moment in time: Higher education is in an existential crisis. The concept of higher education as a public good is eroded with anti-education politics and populism, costs outpacing funding, and value propositions being dismantled. Institutions are chasing both revenue and relevance to…
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Recognition and microcredentials: have competing agendas limited adoption?
This article explores the challenges and debates around the place, adoption and realisation of microcredentials, drawing on presentations and discussions from the ePIC 2024 Open Recognition conference in Paris (6-8 November 2024). Throughout the conference there were multiple perspectives presented on how recognition, including open recognition which enables devolved and distributed ways for individuals, peers…
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The evolving role of open online courses in lifelong learning journeys: the MOOC isn’t dead
This article summarises the evolving role of massive, open, online courses (MOOCs) in the context of lifelong learning and professional learning. As a form of self-paced, and in some ways self-directed, online short course, the MOOC format lends itself to a variety of pedagogical approaches. Some focus on content delivery, others on activity and learner…
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Enabling learners to continue learning beyond programmes of study
Following on from a Twitter chat on the role of learning design that took place in 2020, I was invited back to follow up on one of the questions which focused on how educators can support learners to learn, both during and beyond programmes of study. Co-leading again with Sandra Huskinson, the six questions we…