Skills teachers need for working with technology and people

Teachers in Adult Community Education (ACE) aka LearnLocal, are often delivering language and literacy programs to people with not much prior education. What do you think are the most important skills for teachers working in the LearnLocal sector, or who are teaching adults in general? (Please add your thoughts via the comment section below.) There are articles online suggesting that teachers these days need a huge range of skills with technology, on top of their already enormous and well-documented matrix of educational abilities.  I have been trying to build up a list that Read More …

Huge list of places to find learning materials

Over at PRACE we’re setting up flexible delivery for ICT (information technology) and VET (vocational education & training). (Wrote about this before here, in an attempt to find someone who had the answer already.) But who wants to invent the wheel.. we want to use existing learning materials. Where do we start? So i compiled a big list of places to start searching for learning materials, including: Tied firmly to training packages, the Flexible learning toolboxes, from the Australian Flexible Learning Framework .. or the flexible learning toolbox “repository” (where Read More …