Designing learning for ADHD adults

Designing learning for ADHD adults

‘People with ADHD are often highly creative, determined, and able to tackle large and complex problems.’   Colley (2009). AI is ‘the perfect partner for ADHD creativity’, says coach Andrew Lewis, who has worked with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive...
Designing learning for the future of work

Designing learning for the future of work

When someone has done a lot of research into the future of work, it’s worth listening. At the OEB 2023 conference in Berlin, I was fortunate to attend a presentation by Hartwin Mass – a researcher and futurologist who investigates the future of work. In a recent...
Enabling metacognition with learning design

Enabling metacognition with learning design

  Metacognition (at its simplest, thinking about thinking) is gaining some ground in primary and secondary outposts; in higher education and the workplace, you may draw a blank. However, say researchers De Backer et al. (2011:559): ‘It is widely recognised that...
Graham Gibbs and the value of learning by doing

Graham Gibbs and the value of learning by doing

‘Most learners have a wealth of experience to draw on, which, however much lip-service is paid to it, tends to get sadly neglected even in the most carefully designed learning programmes. This is of course particularly true of adult learning programmes of all kinds,...