Massive Open Online Courses: promoting decent work at a scale
October 3, 2019On September 23rd, ITCILO’s Jobs for Peace and Resilience Training Programme jointly with the ILO’s Coordination Support Unit for Peace and Resilience released the first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) about ILO’s Recommendation No. 205. ILO’s Recommendation No. 205 on ...What the hack?
September 13, 2019“To celebrate the centenary of the ILO and participate in its 24-hour Global Tour, the ITCILO organized a hackaton on the Future of Work and the Future of Learning“ The word hackathon is probably one of the buzzwords you have heard in recent years and not only used in circles where ...The Future is a Mindset
April 16, 2019Last week we participated in the ILO Global Tour which traveled across 24 offices from Fiji to Lima. While in Turin we were joined by 30 local and global students who participated in a hackathon on the Future of Learning. Their stories were compared with the ideas of futurist Gerd Leonhard. The ...Innovation Sprint @ITC-ILO. Making use of interactive video-walls.
October 29, 2018Learning Innovation is one of our crossing cutting strategic drivers that highlights the comparative advantage of our Center. To communicate this idea we made use of an 8 meter long video-wall (composed of 80 micro-tiles). For us the ideal opportunity to test digital storytelling in a large format. ...Designing Open Education: how is your organization tackling the scalability challenge?
October 9, 2018Technological progress makes constant learning a must. In this respect, Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, appear to be an ideal alternative to traditional formal education. MOOCs emerged from the open education resources movement and are since then considered helpful to improve access to ...
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November 17, 2009
Pecha Kucha is an alternative presentation format that is based on a very simple idea : 20 images x 20 seconds, a total time of 6 minutes and 40 seconds. The format makes presentations short and concise in order to stimulate audience attention. Pecha Kucha originated in Tokyo in 2003 as an innovat...
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Facilitate a Fishbowl Discussion
February 16, 2009
I. What is it about? A fishbowl conversation is a form of dialogue that can be used when discussing topics within large groups. Fishbowls involve a small group of people seated in circle and having a conversation (fish). They are surrounded by a larger group of observers, seated in an outer ci...
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NEW ToT Certification Programme: supporting trainers in a continuously changing workplace
September 18, 2018
Several Programmes have been designed and implemented in a competency-based manner at the Centre. Among those, there is the Competency Based ToT, which has the vision of blending the competency-based approach with learning innovation. A competence is a fusion of values, psychomotor skills and knowl...
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October 19, 2007
Prof. Baumgartner introduced the audience by blending general presentations with hands on excercises in (content) Learning Management systems. His general approach and thinking is reflected in his paper "the Zen Art of Teaching". During several workshop discussions some interesting aspects came up...
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Facilitation method: World Café
July 11, 2008
DELTA conducted a ToT-training on innovative and participatory facilitation methods last week for UN Peacekeeping in Brindisi. One of the used methods was called 'World Café'. It is a innovative methodology to host conversations with questions that matter. Basically you bring people together around...