Take university courses online for free
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development, Uncategorized
I’m over the moon excited about designing four peace building & conflict resolution courses for the African Virtual University, so this blog post caught my attention from IFLscience – it’s a good review of MOOCs (massive open online courses), and give lots of links to examples. Check it out. Interested in the courses I’m designing? […]
Tags: afrian virtual university, IFLscience, online learning, university
Complexity of communication makes for a bigger brain
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Uncategorized
Thomas Sander, Executive Director of the Saguaro Seminar at Harvard writes an interesting blog post about how socializing expands brain size. Turns out Oxford scholars say the “more social creatures, among them humans, had the most rapidly expanding brain sizes to cope with the complexity of collaboration, social norms and coordination.” In other words species […]
Tags: brain development, brain-based, harvard, saguaro seminar, thomas sander
‘Engage and develop every young person in the world’ – how about that for an audacious B.H.A.G.
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture, Training & development, Uncategorized
Yesterday I was honoured to co-host AIESEC’s Youth to Business Global Forum in Nairobi, Kenya. Being on stage in front of 500 delegates from 110 countries was energizing, inspiring and simply all round fantabulous! Wish you could have been there? Check out their site for recorded videos of plenaries, pictures and more. AIESEC’s B.H.A.G. (big, […]
Tags: aiesec, bhag, engagement, word cloud
Training trouble? Activate shield deflector
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Humor & comedy, Travel, Uncategorized
If you put yourself in the spotlight as a trainer, as a learning and development specialist, it follows that at times you’ll get burned. And that spotlight can be mighty hot. In my 20 plus years of designing and leading training workshops I’ve had my fair share of challenges: a particularly rude participant coupled with […]
Tags: christine comaford, inner mean girl, rules for renegades, shield deflector, training challenges