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Keynoting on Frugal Education at the Gamification Seminar 2021, Malaysia
Last week I had the honour of speaking about frugal education as a keynote at the 4th annual Creative Culture Gamification seminar in Malaysia. Virtually of course. This year's theme was 'Transdisciplinary Trends in Playful Learning' and how stakeholders can...
Print Your Own Frugal Education Action Cards!
After a busy few weeks on your various research projects, I've found the time to complete work on the Frugal Education Action Cards and create a nice landing page for the resource here on the site. You can now download both print-ready PDFs and Adobe Illustrator...
GameChangers Wins the QS Reimagine Education Award for Learning Science!
I’m really excited to write that we’ve won the QS Reimagine Education award, in the category of Learning Science, for the GameChangers initiative! We’ve been working on this project for the last six years (and a bit) would you believe? It started out as a simple...
Design Sprinting in Malaysia with the Frugal Education Action Cards
This weekend I was invited as a guest to join Fitri Mohamad's Masters in Learning Sciences class to participate in a design sprint for the creation of educational activities. The session forms part of an ACES case study being undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness...
Frugal Education Action Cards: Built at the Speed of Need!
I recently blogged about my work creating a set of Frugal Education cards, designed to support educators in the application of frugal practices, and the cards are now being adopted into in-class activities at Universiti Malaysia, Sarawak (UNIMAS). The Creative Culture...
Prototyping Frugal Education Cards
I've been hard at work noodling away on a collection of frugal education 'action cards' to help others apply frugal practices within their education designs. This idea came off the back of my recent work developing the frugal education aspects. The 'cards' expand upon...
Developing Frugal Aspect Research Instruments
Expanding on recent work developing frugal education aspects, I have also been developing and piloting research instruments for evaluating these frugal aspects within new and existing education designs. The instruments take the form of two surveys. One more...
Frugal Education at the International TS25 Colloquium 2021
I was honoured to be invited to speak at the International TS25 Colloquium 2021 this month as part of a discussion panel on frugal education and playful learning towards building resilience in 21st Century classrooms. The colloquium was delivered in collaboration with...
#Dispatches: Research Time to Reflect and Refocus
During the past few months I’ve been busy continuing my research into frugal education as part of our ACES international research project, which has been a very productive time. Our partners have been busy delivering educational activities in a variety of locations...
#Dispatches: Refining Aspects of Frugal Education
An Exercise in Essentialism, distinguishing the vital few from the trivial many. The ACES project is now in full swing and over the coming months our teams across Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam will be identifying a series of research case studies. Through these...