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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Free audiovisual learning opportunities
The open and free audiovisual opportunities to learn are growing exponentially on the internet. After already two posts about this topic we would like to share some more interesting tips and links with you: - After several years of TED lectures there is a fantastic inventory of 1204 lectures whic...
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Green Gamification @ITCILO: Using Mobile Devices to Take Action in a Playful Way
Gamification refers to: the use of game mechanics, such as points, badges, leader boards and challenges in non-game settings. As part of its Innovation mandate, DELTA has been experimenting with Gamification for Learning methods: from face-to-face methodologies towards integration of game elements i...
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"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 coding specialis...
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Using backchannels in learning events
DELTA is currently contributing to a learning event on South-South cooperation in Cartagena, Colombia. To explore new formats of organizing events we want to try out the backchannel. As the name suggests it's an additional channel of communication which takes place in the background to the main chan...
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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...
