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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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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In the facilitation of strategic retreats or meetings we use often the “appreciative inquiry” technique to facilitate positive change within an organisation/team. With this blogpost we would like to provide you with some background materials that can help you in designing and implementing your own ‘...
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Why learning analytics for capacity development?
Capacity development is a founding principle of the ILO’s Development Cooperation Strategy to secure better decent work outcomes through improved services to constituents. However, how can we increase the effectiveness of capacity building programmes for costituents and players in the world of work?...
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Graphic Facilitation, what is it all about?
Tomorrow 35 colleagues will participate in the Centre's first graphic facilitation workshop. To know what it all is about and to give you a visual taste we interviewed the facilitator, Nancy White. 1. What is visual facilitation all about? Graphic or visual facilitation is the intentional u...
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Capturing the attention of your audience with a powerful presentation is not an easy thing to do. Powerpoint (or Impress, Keynote, ...) are just tools and not always used at its full potential as you may see in the next presentation. [ The Turin Learning Approach indicates that presentations i...
