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Writing on learning, skills and AI
Practical pieces on measuring skills, teaching with AI and finding learning gaps early. Arguments and working methods, written for people who have to make these decisions rather than read about them.
Categories
Four topics, each with a hub of its own
Every article sits under one of these. The hubs carry the wider argument for the topic and the product pages it connects to.
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AI in Education
How AI is actually being used in classrooms and lecture halls.
2 articles
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Enterprise Learning
Building capability inside organizations.
2 articles
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Skills
Measuring, describing and developing skills.
2 articles
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Student Performance
Seeing where learners stand, early enough to act.
2 articles
All articles
Newest first
Long-form pieces on what works in classrooms, lecture halls and workplaces — including the parts that do not.
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AI in Education
AI in Schools: What Actually Works, and What Is Still Marketing
Three uses of AI that hold up in a real school week, three that do not, and the diligence questions that separate them before a contract is signed.
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AI in Education
What an AI Teaching Assistant Can and Cannot Do for Faculty
A working division of labour between an academic and an assistant, and the three reasons faculty rollouts fail that have nothing to do with the model.
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Enterprise Learning
Competency Management That People Actually Use
Why the four-hundred-item framework dies, and what a smaller one tied to staffing and promotion decisions looks like instead.
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Enterprise Learning
Measuring Training Effectiveness Beyond Completion Rates
Three measures worth the effort, an honest position on attribution, and why a measurement programme that has never stopped a course is not one.
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Skills
What a Skill Taxonomy Is, and Why Most of Them Fail
The four things a taxonomy needs to do any work, the five ways they usually rot, and why the enterprise-wide launch is the wrong first move.
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Skills
Defining Skill Levels That Mean Something
Why five-point self-assessment produces a study of temperament, and what a level has to contain before two raters can agree on it.
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Student Performance
Why Learning Gaps Compound, and How to Catch Them Early
A missing prerequisite is not a hole, it is a tax on everything downstream. What it takes to find one in the term it appears rather than three years later.
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Student Performance
The Five Questions Academic Analytics Should Answer
Name the decision and the person who makes it. Charts that survive that question tend to be few, plain, and consulted before a decision rather than after it.
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See the platform behind the writing
The arguments here are the ones the product is built on. The quickest way to judge them is against a class, cohort or team you already know.