I actually can't remember where I first came across this, but have recently started a free online course for entrepreneurs. It's aimed at those in The Hague, but I believe is accessible for everyone. You can sign up here: https://learn.acceleratorsquared.com/ I still have to take the time to go through and complete it, but it … Continue reading Accelerator Squared The Hague – free online course for entrepreneurs
9 & 10 October | The Social Hub Amsterdam City Amidst rapid technologisation, polarisation, the climate crisis, and burnout, it can be easy to sink into apathy and despair. But now is the time to gather and find agency, to do something: We need to transform society's social fabric. How? By listening, nurturing, and repairing our … Continue reading 2024 Society 5.0 Festival Amsterdam
On 18 April 2024, I attended the annual meeting for digital education research and evidence at the Teaching Lab, TU Delft. I enjoyed this opportunity to learn more about the EdTech field. I also attended this event before, see my previous posts here: 2019 Learning Analytics in Higher Education Prof. Marcus Specht opened the day … Continue reading 2024 Digital Education Research and Evidence @ TU Delft
Are you also overwhelmed with all the talk of AI, but not quite sure what it all means? This is a great free online course which covers the basics: https://www.elementsofai.com From their site..... Our goal is to demystify AI The Elements of AI is a series of free online courses created by MinnaLearn and the … Continue reading Elements of AI Online Course
This evening, 22 January 2020, I had the great pleasure of attending the Final Day of the EdTech Validation Program. Hosted by TU Delft, and powered by Yes!Delft, it was a really interesting event centred around eight EdTech startups who had just completed the three month program. Led by EdTech Focus Area Manager and Startup … Continue reading 2020 Final Day Yes!Delft EdTech Validation Program
Did you know that OU, the world's leading distance-learning provider not only offer paid recognised degrees, but also thousands of free courses?
Welcome to the Zestee blog - this is portfolio of my work as well as a a treasure trove of more than 15 years of my favourite topics, articles, resources, book reviews, summaries of events I've been to and more. You can navigate by scrolling, or via the category and archive dropdowns in the sidebar … Continue reading Welcome to the Zestee Blog
Yesterday (20 June 2018), I had the pleasure of spending time with the FeedbackFruits team and other educators in Amsterdam at the "FeedbackFruits Education Inspiration Day" where I spoke about my own research about "How can elearning enhance study success..." The event was held in the very trendy "FreedomLab" in Amsterdam (yes, that is a … Continue reading 2018 Feedback Fruits Education Inspiration Day Amsterdam
If you’re a higher education teacher or lecturer, you probably struggled with the following questions: “how do I save time” and “how do I give students the attention they need and deserve?” Finding a solution is hard. It doesn’t help that both questions seem to contradict each other; the more personal guidance each student gets, … Continue reading SOWISO: Science and Maths elearning platform for higher education
"What does digital learning mean to me?" was the key question at the Mc Graw Hill Education Digital Learning Day held in Rotterdam on 19 May 2017. Here's a few of my tweets from the day.
Completing a Masters involves a LOT of reading. From books to journal articles, many many many hours are spent pouring over materials. My favourite of everything I have read throughout my research is this book, MOOCS by Jonathan Haber, published by MIT Press and available for purchase in either ebook or print here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/moocs The … Continue reading My MICM Masters #9: My favourite book so far: MOOCs
On Wednesday 7 December 2016, I had the pleasure of speaking at Volunteer The Hague. Held at the unique location of The Hague Public Transport Museum, around 100 people attended this event where I spoke about "Create your own Curriculum: Understanding the effect of the Elearning Explosion for Volunteers". Tetyana did an amazing job of co-ordinating this … Continue reading 2016 Volunteer The Hague Elearning Presentation
I was very excited to open LinkedIn today and see this: LinkedIn Learning launches and is free this week (24-30 October 2016): I've been an elearning enthusiast for almost a decade now and have been watching this elearning explosion happening in recent years. I've spoken about it at a few events (see my Slideshare deck) and … Continue reading LinkedIn Learning Launches and is free this week
On 14 June 2016, I gave this presentation on The E-Learning Explosion at the Spark Conference in Amsterdam. https://youtu.be/yEvcq7GlwsA
When I put together the list of elearning platforms recently, I somehow totally missed FutureLearn. I will be adding it immediately...and in fact, putting it at the top of the list! This is a fantastic resource that I recently learnt about on a Yammer post from my programme director in the IBMS programme where I … Continue reading FutureLearn: Free Online Education
Until now, with most of the posts I've written for this blog on elearning, I've focussed on small business/individuals. I started teaching part time at The Hague University of Applied Sciences around 18 months ago, and last week, I really enjoyed listening to a colleague, Peter Becker, talking at a BFM (Business, Finance and Marketing) faculty … Continue reading Open & Online Learning in Higher Education (in the Netherlands)
In March 2015, I had the pleasure of giving a presentation to WBII. (Women's Business Initiative International). Here is a link to my post about this: https://zestee.com/the-e-learning-explosion-presentation-at-wbii/ Below is a review from Deborah Valentine, republished from the WBII website with permission. The E-learning Explosion – March Networking Review by Deborah Valentine Renée Veldman-Tentori, our speaker at the … Continue reading WBII March 2015 Elearning Explosion Presentation Review
Hi there! I've been writing regularly about elearning more more than a year now and realised it might be handy to have a list of elearning platforms with a little about each. Feel free to add to this list in a comment below, or let me know your thoughts about any of these! In no particular … Continue reading A list of Elearning Platforms
Would you like to create your own elearning course? Here are 10 resources to help, focussing on process, strategy, design and development.
Yesterday, I published this blog post: How to create an ecourse - where to start In it, my friend, Manuela, and I came up with 30 things to think about when creating an elearning course. We spent several hours researching and discussing these points, and you can find a list of all those questions, organised … Continue reading 30 things to think about when creating an elearning course
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