available from https://wherewelearn.com
WhereWeLearn is a charity. It is a free online, inclusive, accessible, educational resource.
WhereWeLearn’s engine is a custom software platform. Philip Lacey conceived, designed, developed and grew the engine.
The articles here discuss aspects of the lifecycle of the project. The genesis, operation and future of not only the charity but how WhereWeLearn uses the software platform is discussed.
Furthermore there is documentation of the sandboxing of ideas and exploring possibilities. By founding them in academic research and solid fact they serve as reference points for future growth.
The WhereWeLearn project began in 2018. It has grown significantly through 2019, and will continue to grow in the coming years.
The software platform uses a variety of technologies, open source solutions and a lot of custom developed, secure code. Philip Lacey’s technology platform provides the charity with the tools and capabilities needed for true democratisation of learning.
WhereWeLearn is born of the experience of developing software for banking level security solutions. Furthermore combined with lecturing of technology in university. Simultaneously salted with the creativity of Philip Lacey. When combined with the skills and capabilities of teams of helpers, supporters and advisers, the platform offers a new way of experiencing learning. Furthermore opening the way to enhance traditional learning methods and offer new experiences.
Encompassing different strands of thinking:
WhereWeLearn uses technologies to provide a human way to learn.
These WhereWeLearn articles are Philip Lacey’s personal experience. Furthermore the learning and reference documents help in future discussions and exploring possibilities of using technology in learning.
The Assumption SEO is usually treated as a marketing function. keyword research content calendars backlinks optimisation cycles The goal is clear: Drive traffic. But what happens if you remove marketing entirely? >No campaigns.>No optimisation strategy.>No promotion. That was the constraint. The Context WhereWeLearn operates under a deliberate model: It does not promote content. This is not a limitation. It …
The Assumption Most people use AI to move faster. faster content faster code faster delivery That makes sense. However in my case, I used AI for something very different: To slow things down — and get them right. This is how I’m using AI to build a Charity by focusing on Governance Before Growth. The Context WhereWeLearn is not …
The Assumption There’s a common assumption about AI in engineering: Give it a messy system, and it will fix it. That hasn’t been my experience. When I applied AI to a 9-year-old production system, it didn’t simplify the work. It made one thing very clear: If you don’t understand your system, AI will expose that immediately. The Context The …
Science Fiction to Science Fact, this article looks at some of the amazing developments from creative minds, to something you can pick up and use today. So what science fiction can you use today and potentially extend yourself? Merriam-Webster defines etymology as “Etymon means “origin of a word” in Latin, and comes from the Greek word etymon, meaning “literal meaning …
LCARS interface – build your own: is an article to bring a science fiction Star Trek’esque interface into real world usage. As I examined in the article Science Fiction into Science Fact, there are many tools we can use for ourselves these days that were previously only the realm of science fiction. Working with KeyRings from WhereWeLearn, this example …
iFrames or “inline Frames” were first introduced in 1997. In over 20 years of use the technology industry used, praised, shunned and ignored iFrames. This article explores this wonderful technology and how it can be used in a very positive sense. iFrames or multiple screens? Space is a premium for everyone. From the macro to the micro. However when …
Languageizer is a tool available on the WhereWeLearn platform. https://wherewelearn.com/forfun/languageizer-options.php Languageizer uses modern browser technology to help in the learning of languages by combining basic word lists with a browser’s SpeechSynthesis. It uses the fundamentals of speaking a language and modern browser technology to provide a free language learning tool. Current Languageizer and Language Projects on WhereWeLearn N.B. These …
QR Codes or Quick Response Codes bring technology content into the physical world. Yet how can you use them for training? Having worked in a strict governance environment for years, finding ways of reminding people of governance was always challenging. Navigating through piles of documentation to find the one relevant paragraph in a timely fashion is even harder. QR Codes …
Mindful Writing is a new approach and tool which addresses a common learning challenge presented to educators when moving role plays to an electronic format. I recently had to address a challenge around Role Plays in an eLearning and distance learning environment. The standard solution was to video tape the interactions and put the entire recording of the video in …
Democratisation of Learning In a presentation recently a learned scholar dropped the phrase a true “Democratisation of Learning”. I wanted to better understand the expression’s application from an academic perspective and how it applied to the work I was presenting. Firstly the term it is not the study of Democracy but instead the principles of democracy as applied to learning. …