spend money - raise attainment?
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 Posted in Publishing, UK Schools, Uncategorized | 805 Comments »This is the first of a few posts about research that I have been reading. As you can read below - there is a correlation between spending and attainment. But, there are clearly some complex aspects to these findings! An increased ...
Never ahead of my time, just ahead of the rest!
Monday, August 4th, 2008 Posted in Consultant, Publishing, UK Schools, eLearning | 3600 Comments »I am often asked by people who have not worked with me before to give examples of my good judgement about the market. There is one example I have used so often that it is hardly confidential anymore. Last week, I ...
evolve or die - oh, and watch out when going downhill
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Consultant, Publishing, UK Schools | 1066 Comments »I found a very interesting article about extinctions, which offers at least one useful lesson for the educational publishing sector (encapsulated in the headline above!): "Fitness landscapes are often conceived of as ranges of mountains. There exist local peaks (points from ...
Free Stuff Available Here!
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Publishing, UK Schools, eLearning | 592 Comments »Or at least, isn't that what we are all looking for? As Nick Kind rightly says, 'free' is a myth.
An apology to Ewan - but am I about to make it worse???
Monday, July 21st, 2008 Posted in Publishing, UK Schools, Uncategorized | 610 Comments »In March, Ewan MacIntosh took the time to comment on my post What is the perceived value of content? As I have been pretty much full time at Oxfam Education for the past 6 months, I have only recently ...
New Tag Line
Thursday, July 17th, 2008 Posted in Consultant, Publishing, eLearning | 693 Comments »I think I might have cracked the Maven problem (see last post). The new tag line I am thinking of unleashing is ... wait for it... Educational Publishing 2.0 It sums up so much more about what I bring to organisations - about ...
Maven or Maverick
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in Consultant, Publishing, UK Schools | 599 Comments »I have been trying to write a small ad to sum up what I do a little better. Some people I have worked with have called me a maven. But, this is a term that few people are aware of, ...
An ode to ode
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 Posted in Publishing, UK Schools, Uncategorized, eLearning | 867 Comments »ode is dead. The proposition had been an 'iTunes' service for educational materials. Pearson Education have decided to fundamentally change the proposition that the ode team worked so hard to build. Although some of the technology will probably be turned to support ...
What is the perceived value of content?
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 Posted in Publishing, UK Schools, eLearning | 766 Comments »Following a post from Mark Berthelemy, called Revolution, not Evolution, I found myself reading 33 statements from a Local Authority leader that were about radically changing the delivery and shape of the school curriculum. In many ways, this post is ...
Commercially sensitive - but WHY?
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 Posted in Consultant, Publishing, UK Schools | 3733 Comments »So, recently, I did a daft thing, I posted comments on another blog, making oblique references to the parent company of an existing client. Now, although I do not think I said anything ‘wrong’, it could have reflected badly on ...