By Anthony de Mello. Perhaps, also,  the story serves as a bridge to understanding. David Heathfield’s story at Harrogate features a bridge.  As one of the key words in a four-word story prompt, the bridge serves to impart a beautiful concept in the unfolding tale narrated by David.  The stories below all help us to connect as human beings and teachers and they inspire us to play with our imaginations.
Featuring David Heathfield (live streaming Harrogate) with  Rakesh Bhanot, (Harrogate) and Nick Michelioudakis (Tesol  Athens)
If I were to sum up my eclectic interests under one fundamental truth for life, living, teaching and learning, I would choose the art of storytelling as our ultimate tool for self-expression and creative living as human beings from all walks of life. More...

By WizIQ. Promoting and selling courses online can at times be challenging for a successful online teacher, but the WizIQ Learning Marketplace makes it easy and profitable! WizIQ’s highly visible, open marketplace provides an ideal opportunity for instructors to create and publish online courses, reach millions of WizIQ users across the world, and collect student payments, for a minimal fee. More...

By WizIQ. If you browse through the history and evolution of online education and virtual learning environment, it is equivalent to travelling through time and marveling at all that humanity has achieved. From televised broadcast of distance education programs, to the inception of ARPANET, to the present day ideas of ‘schools in the cloud’, we have come a long way.
Moving from traditional face-to-face teaching to teaching online can be a precarious process for instructors. As such, teachers too have come a long way from teaching a single student (Private Tutoring Session) to teaching multitudes of learners (MOOCs). More...

By Peter Bryant. The idea of openness is one of the most used and often misunderstood terms in Higher Education. It informs many of the debates around access, delivery, equity, innovation and technology. It became quite clear though after attending the twinned conferences of OCWC14 in Ljubljana and OER14 in Newcastle over the Easter weekend, that this ever-greying definition is fragmenting the skills base and capacity for practice sharing within the sector. More...