Massive Open Online Courses: promoting decent work at a scaleOctober 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 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 ...
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Knowledge is located in social networks, therefore it is important to better understand them. Social networks are nodes of individuals, groups, organisations or related systems which are connected by types of interdependency. Social network analysis is an instrument to map these connections and visu...
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Gamestorming. Do you want to be more innovative?
Practical and inspiring guides with innovative and participatory learning and knowledge sharing methods are always interesting to read. "Gamestorming, a playbook for innovators, rulebreakers, and change", written by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown and James Macanufo is a good illustrative example. The entire...
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Facilitation method: Peer Assist
During several training sessions we have tested out the 'Peer-Assist'-technique to let participants identify challenges and share experiences. The best way to introduce you to the specific methodology is to watch the following movie. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObmQyW3EiiE] This an...
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Facilitation method: World Café
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...
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Collaborative writing. The world of wiki’s.
Writing together in team on an article, a publication, a project or a toolkit, it more and more happens in the wiki way. If wiki still sounds chinese for you have first a look at wiki's in plain English. Almost ten years ago the wiki way of building collaboratively knowledge started to grow slowly...
