Email Marketing and the GDPR: It’s Not All Bad
Though a big win for consumers, the General Data Protection Regulation has become a bit of a downer for many businesses, especially in the domain of email marketing. Gone are the days when a business could simply buy…
Privacy by Design: 7 Important Principles
Many businesses are reactive when it comes to data privacy, which was highlighted with the recent enactment of the General Data Protection Regulation. We see that when a new privacy regulation or law is enacted, many businesses have…
GDPR Readiness: Creating a Data Privacy Plan
As Velsoft’s new Privacy Officer, my job is to make sure my company continues using good privacy practices, and that our customer’s data stays protected. In this digital age, it's a very important task. Data privacy is at…
Michael Welton: Dialogue and Adult Education
Education professor Michael Welton, true to his Habermasian roots, sees society through a ‘learning lens’ and puts dialogue at the centre of his critical perspectives of adult education. Unlike the traditionalists who emphasized specific content knowledge learned in institutional…
Velsoft eCourse Design and Development Process
Managing Customers' eCourse Expectations The Velsoft eCourse Design and Development Process ensures the sales, production and project management departments work together to manage internal and external expectations. Establishing a collaborative relationship from the beginning ensures we build a…
Stephen Brookfield – Critical Analysis
In Engaging Practitioners in Critical Analysis of Adult Education Literature, Stephen Brookfield is trying to “...encourage students to acquire the habit of asking certain critical questions each time they are confronted with a piece of published academic writing.”…
Donald Schon: How Professionals Think In Action
Donald Schon, in his influential books Educating the Reflective Practitioner and The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think In Action, argues that we need to look at how adults learn in practice. He introduces the notions of ‘knowing-in-action’, ‘reflecting-in-action’…
Roger Simon: Teaching Against the Grain
In Teaching Against the Grain Roger Simon explores the horizon of possibility. Simon has us looking at a vision of the future rooted in our own present, through our curricular practice. Further he is saying that our curricular practice is…
Bloom’s Taxonomy – Still ‘Bloom’ing After All These Years
Discovering Bloom's Taxonomy When I first started teaching at our local Community College I was asked to teach a summer course in ‘Test and Measurement’ to a class of 25 new teachers at our provincial teacher’s college. It…