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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Facilitation method: Open space methodology/technology
Open Space Technology (or methodology) is a self-organising method that can be used to run meetings for a diverse public in order to address complex topics. My experience in OS is very limited, that is why I rely a lot on picking the brains of those who do this type of facilitation for a living. Th...
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"Aid on the edge of chaos" , written by Ben Ramalingan re-confirmed definitely the need of changing the paradigm when we think about aid in times of complexity. The book has inspired us to explore what 'complexity adaptive thinking' could mean in the context of learning and training. Learning an...
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How Futures Foresight informs decision-making
In the Ancient world, Babylonian, Egyptian and Greek seers often relied on the interpretation of dreams to predict the future. While seers are no longer viewed as mystical figures connected to the divine, their vocation – that of predicting the future – is morphing into a new academic discipline tha...
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Massive Online Open Course on “Crowdfunding for Development”
As part of the Centre's innovation fund we explored the added value of 'crowdfunding for development'. The results of this investigation have been documented step-by-step throughout the entire crowdfunding cycle and we think it's about time to scale up this learning journey. In collaboration with GI...
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DELTA entering the learning blogosphere.
DELTA's blog on new learning technologies is officially launched. What’s in this blog? As the titel refers to: “Learning and Training Technology Applications”. On a weekly base there will be postings on new learning and training methodologies technologies that can be used in our programmes.
