Reviving Brick In The Wall: Join Us – Bring Alternative Education To Malaysia

If you are interested in youth and alternative education; if you feel that the Malaysian education system needs changes; if you want to make a difference; if you are resourceful, dedicated, imaginative, creative, diligent – Brick In The Wall needs you.
Brick In The Wall was a project I started in 2005 to promote alternative education [...]

Blogathon: #22 – Learning Designers

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Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users writes a followup to an earlier post about the relevance of college in today’s world, and goes through the various options for learning. She then brings up this idea:
Maybe there should be third-party “learning designers” who you pay to [...]

Penang State and Supplemental Education

According to this article in ALIRAN Malaysia, the Penang state government have been initating a number of projects over the past few years to supplement formal education there.
… the State can focus on areas that somehow have received scant or no attention within the formal system of education.
- Datuk Dr Toh Kin Woon, State Executive [...]

The Thrill’s Just Starting

So plenty has happened ever since I thought about that thrill in my toes. It seems that the thrill is just about to begin.
My round of interviews for the World Bank Essay Competiton has started, and I've received some pretty good responses. I even managed to talk to Bob and DeeAnn over Skype (add me, [...]