The Future is a MindsetApril 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 ...
NEW ToT Certification Programme: supporting trainers in a continuously changing workplaceSeptember 18, 2018Several 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 ...
Mobile Seamless Learning for the 21st centuryAugust 3, 2018How can mobile technology benefit learning? Using mobile devices for learning is a logical extension of our life in this tech-centric world. Undoubtedly, technologies affect learning in various ways. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) grant access to knowledge to all people ...
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Facilitate a Fishbowl Discussion
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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Facilitation method: Open space methodology/technology
Open Space Technology (or methodology) is a self-organising method that can be used to run meetings for a diverse public in order to address complex topics. My experience in OS is very limited, that is why I rely a lot on picking the brains of those who do this type of facilitation for a living. Th...
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New Report Release: Fostering development through MOOCs @ITCILO
During the last edition of the Training of Trainers Forum on Sustainable Learning Solutions for the Future which took place in November we discussed among practitioners and development professionals the potential of MOOCs for development. “To MOOC or not TO MOOC”: this was the statement around whic...
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How Futures Foresight informs decision-making
In the Ancient world, Babylonian, Egyptian and Greek seers often relied on the interpretation of dreams to predict the future. While seers are no longer viewed as mystical figures connected to the divine, their vocation – that of predicting the future – is morphing into a new academic discipline tha...
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Last 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 reco...
