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 The summer holiday means I am absolutely immersed in my PhD . I mean from 7am to 7pm, reading, writing, reading, writing, coffee and regular two-and-a-half hour trips to London to visit the fantastic Educational Settlements Association archives (quite close to Kings Cross = only one bacon sandwich, hot drink combo from Greggs) and the Workers' Educational Association archives (quite far from Kings Cross = two bacon/hot drink combo from Greggs). At the latter, I discovered this fantastic piece of writing from my favourite education man crush, R. H. Tawney . I think I am going to have to crowbar a chapter about him into the PhD, which means more trips to London and the archives, ah all day in a library during a nice summer day. What can be better? Anyway, enough of my ramblings. Get your pedagogical brains around these beauties, taken from a speech given by Tawney to the Co-operative Movement ... Education has always meant not simply the accumulation of knowledge, or the perfecting ...

    We all know how fantastic MOOCs are and how they are almost as addictive as Kopparberg pear cider. Take a course in Animal Psychology or some outlandish course you wouldn't have touched with a barge pole when you were at uni and try and tell me that MOOCs aren't the greatest thing to hit the internet since that jumping dinosaur game on the google page.      But why am I talking about MOOCs now? Well, the last class I did was about lifelong learning. I created a lesson based on that topic because I was getting a bit frustrated with my students moaning (is moaning the right word? ehm yeah, I think so) about how they are not getting what they expected from their university experience. Some of the complaints were: The low English level of the Korean professors*. Korean professors not being interested in the class, lack of passion.  Classes are a waste of time as students can't understand the professor. Korean professors speaking in Korean for Korean cl...