Stumbled upon a scientist that as a cure for Zoom-fatigue suggested muting your face. The idea was: it's exhausting to have to see yourself all the time. And yes, that's easy to agree with. I, too, am not particularly amused to see myself in the mirror all the time. But here's a far better suggestion. … Continue reading Zoom fatigue does not exist
Month: June 2021
How to upscale a teacher’s job, and at the same time increase quality
Standing in class takes time. But it takes a lot more time to develop teaching. That is also why we gain by thinking more about this development process than what shall happen in the classroom itself. Here's how it can be done. For a good reason: others have already started to work in this way. … Continue reading How to upscale a teacher’s job, and at the same time increase quality
Please: let´s skip the depression-phase – a third attempt post-covid
What if students don´t come back to Campus the upcoming years and prefer to meet each other at other places instead? What if teachers then lose their high level of energy? What even if managers themselves loses faith in the future? But then, here is a headache pill that could help us avoid all that. … Continue reading Please: let´s skip the depression-phase – a third attempt post-covid
How Wannabes can outperform the existing platforms
Competition in the e-learning-market has undeniably, so far, not been very fierce. It has been excellent to become a successful education platform without knowing much about education. How long will that hold? Spice Girls show the way for the next step. It´s possible for any unknown teacher to take it and outperform the existing platforms. … Continue reading How Wannabes can outperform the existing platforms
Digital students and customers are not the same as IRL
Let´s not do the same mistake as record labels did. They did not understand their own customers. Streaming substituted piracy and iTunes, not CD-records. They should have understood that customer preferences changed. Here is an example of what easily happen in digital education. It was a great learning-event I developed. But I failed with it. … Continue reading Digital students and customers are not the same as IRL
Typewriters understood digital education long before us
How did we manage? Power Point is actually difficult to learn. Still we ones did. We have even managed to integrate it into our working-process. Same thing with typewriters, classrooms ... and next. Well, all these are a bit different. But, are they really? Here´s what we can learn by not focusing their big differences. … Continue reading Typewriters understood digital education long before us
Try a different structure instead – a second attempt, post-COVID
Why do universities just get stuck with the idea of online education vs offline education, ending up with some kind of hybrid-solution as the middle ground? We can use digitalization for something far more interesting. We can use digitalization to restructure a business. Here is an unspoken of example of what we actually could do. … Continue reading Try a different structure instead – a second attempt, post-COVID
Disruptive Education 