Bryan Mathers

I always did well at school

A littleĀ bit tongue in cheek here, I know, but do you ever get the feeling that it's very hard for…

11 years ago

Getting your idea off the ground

I spoke recently at the ALT conference, where the theme was "riding the wave of innovation" - I always like…

11 years ago

Formative vs Summative

Steve Wheeler wrote a blogpost a while back and this phase about Formative and Summative assessment caught my eye. It's…

11 years ago

Education prised open

Recently, I was asked to speak at Coventry University's Disruptive Media Lab Open week. Another of the speakers was Nishant…

11 years ago

Education may be linear

The older I get, the more I am aware of the multidirectional aspects of learning. I like to explore and…

11 years ago

Different isn’t wrong

When I lived in East Africa, this was a mantra of a wise ex-pat I once knew. I find it…

11 years ago

Commoditised Learning

What if Amazon did learning? Or at least the Amazon prediction engine. Might a system be able to suggest items…

11 years ago

Celebrate your Milestones

This thought was created as part of a collaboration between Doug Belshaw and myself. If you haven't already its worth…

11 years ago

BBC Badges

This flow was created for Ralph Rivera at the BBC to illustrate how badges could be used to recognise Knowledge,…

11 years ago

Assessment & Pedagogy

Here's a thought from Bob Harrison, of FELTAG fame. I think its a good one.

11 years ago

Credential Monopoly

We'll it's alright for me. When I was your age, Higher Education was free. And they gave out grants for…

11 years ago

A Conspiracy of Manipulation

It's not easy to think for yourself when you're constantly being manipulated. This visual thought was for a talk I…

11 years ago

In all things…

"In all things, It's better to hope than to despair..." Goethe. I saw this thought and had to draw it.

11 years ago

PISA…

Whilst at BETT this year, I got the opportunity to hear Sir Ken Robinson speak. Here's one of his off-the-cuff…

11 years ago

Linear vs Non-linear learning

I don't think we learn well in straight lines - at least I don't. To learn is to understand, to…

11 years ago

The Digital Skills Sandwich

The Digital Skills Sandwich illustrates how a fluid de-centralised community approach to badging could fit between the underlying Mozilla web…

11 years ago

Wapisasa – a badge-driven apprenticeship

Could a Rookie earn badges, as they progress through their employment at wapisasa? Could these badges that recognise Knowledge, Skills,…

11 years ago

Digital Transformation Machine

This drawing was generated as a result of a great round table discussion by Digital Colleges, hosted by IBM.

11 years ago

The ETAG challenge

This image was the result of the inception meeting of the Education Technology Action Group (ETAG), with Michael Gove and…

11 years ago

Getting your idea off the ground

This visual thought was a result of a meeting hosted by the Forward Foundation, including Nominet Trust, Big Lottery, and…

11 years ago

Education is Changing

However, here's a visual thought I captured from a speaker at the ALTC conference, Catherine Cronin, care of a quote…

11 years ago

The Learning Black Market

Here's a visual thought I captured from a speaker at the ALTC conference, Catherine Cronin - "...students navigate for themselves…

11 years ago

Downes Theory of Education

I've always found Stephen Downes weekly summary of all things learning tech related a source for all sorts of goodies.…

11 years ago

Reinventing yourself…

A thought captured from the Connected Courses project (connectedcourses.net) following a comment from Meredith Broussard - which struck a chord…

11 years ago