Last Friday’s TES contained an article “Vocation for the amateur” that set me thinking. At first glance I thought it was just more Voc Ed-bashing, but actually it poses a very tricky question; how do you cope with the fact that very few teachers have actually done for a living the skills that they teach?…

SCORM – the Shareable Courseware Object Reference Model is a standard for interchange of web-based learning materials. It is strongly promoted by Becta and Curriculum Online as the enabler of a golden age of e-learning in which teachers will have access to an inexhaustible supply wonderful interactive multimedia thingies that that will bring joy, light,…

We’ve had no new posts on our Business Studies message board for about a week now, and this has set me wondering about message boards in general. If you participate in a board yourself, you’ll know that they can be a great community focus and an invaluable source of knowledge. If you’ve ever set one…

First, what’s a blog? A ‘blog’ is a web log – an online diary, essentially. This one is written by members of the Chalkface team (usually CEO Ian Grove-Stephensen) and is intended to present discussions of our thoughts and issues about education in general and those elements we are directly involved with in particular.