Fons Trompenaars at Zukunft Personal in Cologne

I have just spent the last two days at the Human Resources Trade Fair Zukunft Personal in Cologne. The event is the largest HR trade fair in all of Europe. During the fair, I spent some time with the people at SKYLIGHT GmbH. As the master trainer for blended learning in their corporate language trainer certificate program, CLTC-C, I fielded questions by prospective certificate candidates about the blended learning module of the three- par Read More »

 St. Louis at night

I am now at the furthest point west I have ever been in my life.  I probably would have passed this point going east anyway at some junction. This is a whole new experience for me and much more interesting than I had originally imagined it would be when planning my trip. I am impressed, from an intercultural standpoint, by the Midwest. In some ways China seems more familiar.

 Washington DC at night

I have been visiting a wide range of schools on this trip: everything from run down urban high schools in  Washington  D.C. to run of the mill rural junior high schools nestled in the rolling Virginia countryside. It is exhausting but fascinating.

Where is hybrid learning used effectively in schools?

Dr. Yvonne Köster

“One day, multi-medial learning will seem as ‘normal’ for people as writing an e-mail is to most people these days."

Peter Fellmann, expert in school management and quality in education in China

Peter Fellmann is a real expert in school management and quality in education and has comprehensive experience in the German education system. He has served Read More »

Teaching financial experts, CLTC-C, Engine magazine, Russian Banks, Intercultural

I also especially enjoyed the presentation ‘Knowing the Client’s Needs: Teaching Financial Experts’ delivered by Gabriella Hirthe of ISD GmbH. Anyone who has taught financial experts will have noticed that Gabriella knew exactly what she was talking about when she described the peculiarities involved in teaching this p Read More »

Digital Publishing, free content, web 2.0, peer review, garden walls

This time I was, maybe naively, a little surprised at what a seemingly negative posture on web 2.0 and collaborative working DP has apparently adopted. I suppose that collaborative content creation, web 2.0/3.0 and language services like Livemocha represent such an obvious threat to the walled-garden business model of many publishers, I guess I really shouldn’t have been too astonished with this apparent posturing.