Who is General Assembly (GA)? A training company founded in New York city in 2011 and acquired for $412.5 million in 2017 [1]. That is quite a lot f...
Is There a Difference Between Learning and Education?
Most people use the words learning and education interchangeably, and that's fine. But when we, who teach adults for a living, don't truly understan...
The other day I bumped into Roger, a university lecturer and dear colleague of mine. He looked all worked up, and before I could ask what the matter...
Many years ago, I used to tutor Johnny. Johnny was a fourteen year old whose brain had been flooded with too much testosterone too quickly, which ma...
Why I’m glad my parents didn’t eventually name me Hercules
Early in 2020, when the pandemic broke out, I was asked to give a webinar on online teaching to the academic staff of our university. Having studied...
