Local and global interactions and discussions that have meaning and relevance to individual learners and learning communities.
With my Open Pathways Design Leader and Online Facilitator hat on I want to share information about the online course I co-designed and created in 2018. This has been prepared for Open Education Week 2019. I encourage readers to browse the Resources collected on the...
The u!magine Professional Learning Series on Open Education kicked off in August with the first session asking 'What is open?' Along with colleagues Val Peachey, Leanne White we discussed processes, practices and pathways for open education and open learning. As the...
Just a quick post to share my presentation/workshop at the T21C event this week. A small local conference at Hillcrest Christian College on the Gold Coast. What a lovely school! We were in purpose built classrooms with a socratic approach to learning and furniture...
Last week I attended the 43rd Improving University Teaching Conference held on the Charles Sturt University Port Macquarie campus. As an international conference it attracted representatives from Australia, Scotland, China, South Africa, USA, Canada, Fiji and...
Successful online global collaborations require some structure and planning. Educators need to be aware that planning that includes design and implementation is paramount to engaging students and building in success for global learning. In a design for action mode the...
The following blog post comes from the new book by Julie Lindsay, "The Global Educator: Leveraging technology for collaborative learning and teaching" published by ISTE. Building collaboration skills today means building global collaboration skills. Educators have...
This is the first post shared on the Flat Connections blog from the Connect with China trip to China in April 2016. The China trip of Katie Grubb and Julie Lindsay took them to Beijing BISS International School, a small IB world school located on the 3rd ring road in...
This post is in response to an article in the Australian written by Natasha Bita and published March 26, 2016: 'Computers in class 'a scandalous waste': Sydney Grammar head' Brought to my attention via Twitter by the organisers of Education Nation (a conference being...
Global collaborative learning with China China is not a sleeping giant – these days it is a dragon that roars. Young people today need to understand more about China as a country, the Chinese culture and language, and make vital connections for future understanding....