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Could AI transform our economies to produce explosive growth? Most economists are sceptical at best. Anton Korinek of the University of Virginia, leader of the CEPR research policy network on AI, thinks the threshold is closer than those models suggest.In his latest work, Korinek, Tom Davidson, Basil Halperin, and Thomas Houlden, have built a growth model that captures what happens when AI starts automating AI research itself. Automation does two things simultaneously: it accelerates research, and it offsets the diminishing returns that have historically stopped self-improving processes from compounding. Three reinforcing feedback loops: software quality, hardware quality, and general technological progress, each amplify the others. Korinek's findings are more optimistic than even the AI labs' own roadmaps, which focus on software capability alone. The research behind this episode:Davidson, Tom, Basil Halperin, Thomas Houlden, and Anton Korinek. 2026. "When Does Automating AI Research Produce Explosive Growth? Feedback Loops in Innovation Networks." Working paper, January 2026.To cite this episode:Phillips, Tim, and Anton Korinek. 2026. "When Does Automating AI Research Produce Explosive Growth?" VoxTalks Economics (podcast). Assign this as extra listening. The citation above is formatted and ready for a reading list or VLE.About the guestsAnton Korinek is a professor of economics at the University of Virginia. He leads the CEPR Research Policy Network on AI, which is building a community of researchers to understand and anticipate the economic impact of artificial intelligence. He is a member of Anthropic's Economic Advisory Council and was named by Time magazine among the hundred most influential people in AI. His research spanning the economics of transformative AI, growth theory, and the implications of advanced automation for labor markets and inequality has made him one of the most widely cited economists working on these questions. He is also the founder of the Economics of Transformative AI initiative at the University of Virginia, which focuses on the long-run economic consequences of AI systems that approach or exceed human-level capabilities.Visit the CEPR Research Policy Network on AI.Research cited in this episodeDaron Acemoglu's estimate of AI's growth impact. Acemoglu calculated that AI would raise annual growth by approximately 0.07 percentage points, arriving at this figure by multiplying the share of jobs likely to be affected by AI, the fraction of tasks within those jobs that AI could perform, and the productivity gain per task. Korinek argues the estimate was a reasonable description of the AI that existed in 2024 but did not account for the trajectory of capabilities since, nor for the feedback loops between AI progress and further AI development that his own paper models.Recursive self-improvement. The idea that an AI system, once capable enough, could design improved versions of itself, triggering an accelerating cycle of capability gains. The concept was first articulated by John von Neumann in the 1950s and has since become central to debates about transformative AI. All major AI labs, Korinek notes, are working towards some version of this vision; the economic question is whether the resulting growth would be explosive or would be damped by diminishing returns.Semi-endogenous growth models. A class of economic growth models in which long-run growth depends on the scale of the research workforce and the returns to research effort. The canonical insight, associated most closely with Nicholas Bloom and co-authors, is that "ideas get harder to find"; maintaining a given rate of progress requires ever-increasing research investment. Korinek and co-authors use and extend this framework, showing that automation can counteract diminishing returns by replacing human labor with capital in the research process, creating a new feedback loop that was absent from earlier models.Kaldor's balanced growth facts. Nicholas Kaldor's observation, made in the mid-twentieth century, that the major macroeconomic aggregates, including the capital-output ratio, the labor share of income, and the rate of return to capital, remain roughly stable over long periods. Growth economists built their models, including the Solow and Ramsey models, to fit these regularities. Korinek notes that those models were appropriate precisely because they matched the historical data; the question his paper raises is whether the data of the next few decades will look different enough to require a different class of models.Moore's Law. The empirical regularity, observed in computing hardware since the 1960s, that the number of transistors on a chip approximately doubles every two years. Korinek uses chip progress as a calibration benchmark: maintaining that rate of doubling has historically required roughly an eight percent annual increase in the scientific workforce working on chips. This figure allows the model to be parameterised with a real-world measurement of how much additional research input is needed to sustain a given rate of technological progress.Consumer surplus from digital technologies. Korinek raises the problem that GDP statistics are designed to measure market transactions and therefore do not capture the value people derive from digital goods and services beyond what they pay for them. He references research from the Stanford Digital Economy Lab as an example of work attempting to quantify this surplus. The implication for the paper's argument is that explosive AI-driven growth could be underestimated even in the statistics used to monitor it.More VoxTalks Economics episodes"Our Workless Future", an earlier conversation with Anton Korinek from September 2022, in which he set out the case for taking AI's impact on labor markets seriously.Related reading on VoxEUFirms predict an AI productivity boom is coming, a survey of over 5,000 CFOs, CEOs, and executives shows that around 70% of firms actively use AI, particularly younger, more productive firms. They forecast AI will boost productivity by 1.4%, increase output by 0.8%, and cut employment by 0.7% over the next three years.How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe, firm-level evidence on AI's effects in Europe. The authors find that AI adoption increases labour productivity levels by 4% on average in the EU, with no evidence of reduced employment in the short run.From AI investment to GDP growth: An ecosystem view, how the current AI wave is contributing to US GDP, both directly through investment and indirectly through ongoing service flows. 

It's EV News Briefly for Wednesday 11 March 2026, everything you need to know in less than 5 minutes if you haven't got time for the full show.Patreon supporters fund this show, get the episodes ad free, as soon as they're ready and are part of the EV News Daily Community. You can be like them by clicking here: https://www.patreon.com/EVNewsDailyMERCEDES VLE TAKES AIM AT THE PREMIUM VANMercedes is launching the all-electric VLE on its new VAN.EA platform to replace the V-Class, offering two battery options: an 80 kWh LFP unit charging at 300 kW and a 115 kWh NMC pack from CATL on an 800-volt system charging at up to 315 kW, with a WLTP range of around 700 km. The cabin offers up to 8 seats, a 31-inch 8K rear cinema screen, electric sliding doors, a centre-console fridge, and pricing from roughly €68,000 to €135,000 in Germany.GM REVIVES BOLT, THEN SETS AN END DATEGM has brought back the Chevrolet Bolt for 2027 as the cheapest EV in the US at $28,995, featuring a 65 kWh LFP battery, 210 hp, 262 miles of EPA range, and 150 kW NACS fast charging with a 10–80% time of 25 minutes. However, GM plans only one model year of production, as ending Bolt output frees its Kansas City plant to shift Equinox assembly from Mexico to the US.PORSCHE ADDS CAYENNE S ELECTRICPorsche has added the 2026 Cayenne S Electric at $128,650, slotting between the 435 hp base model and the 1,139 hp Turbo with 536 hp standard and 657 hp on launch control, hitting 0–60 mph in 3.6 seconds. It shares the range's 108 kWh battery and 400 kW peak DC charging, reaching 10–80% in under 16 minutes, and borrows the Turbo's direct oil-cooling system for improved thermal resilience.ELLI CONNECTS FIRST GRID BATTERY IN SALZGITTERVolkswagen's energy subsidiary Elli has connected its first large-scale battery storage system—a 20 MW / 40 MWh PowerCentre across 13 containers—to the grid in Salzgitter, Germany. The system uses cells from VW's PowerCo plant, trades energy on the European Power Exchange, and is designed to stabilise grids and support renewable energy integration.GENESIS GV90 SPOTTED CHARGING AT SUPERCHARGERA camouflaged Genesis GV90 has been photographed charging at a Tesla Supercharger in Mesquite, Nevada, confirming the model will feature a standard NACS port as Genesis rolls out NACS across all new US-market EVs from 2026 onward. The GV90 is expected to ride on Hyundai's new eM platform, which promises 50% more range than the current E-GMP architecture, with higher trims set to feature coach doors and panoramic displays.SLATE AUTO CHANGES CEO BEFORE TRUCK LAUNCHSlate Auto has replaced founder and CEO Christine Barman with Peter Faricy, a former Amazon VP and Ford executive, less than a year before the planned launch of its low-cost electric truck. Barman, the company's first hire and one of only two women leading a US automaker, moves to the role of president of vehicles at the Jeff Bezos-backed startup.DACIA READIES SECOND SMALL ELECTRIC CARDacia is preparing a second small EV to sit alongside the Spring, developed in under 16 months and targeted at under €18,000, built on Renault's AmpR Small platform that also underpins the Renault 5. The unnamed model is part of Dacia's plan to launch four new EVs by 2030, with design direction hinted at by the Dacia Hipster concept unveiled in October 2024.IVECO PUTS WIRELESS ROAD CHARGING INTO TRAFFICIveco has launched a real-world dynamic wireless power transfer (DWPT) trial on the A35 Brebemi motorway in northern Italy, using a production eDaily van fitted with inductive charging hardware that can charge both while stationary and while driving over embedded road sections. The project moves DWPT beyond lab testing into live traffic conditions, though it remains a technology demonstration rather than a commercial rollout due to the large infrastructure investment required for wide deployment.BYD, CHERY AND GEELY EYE CANADABYD, Chery, and Geely are preparing to enter the Canadian market by end of 2026 following a January trade reset between Canada and China, under which Canada agreed to allow 49,000 China-made EVs at the most-favoured nation tariff rate in exchange for lower Chinese tariffs on Canadian agricultural goods. Up to 15 additional Chinese brands could follow, though homologation remains the key bottleneck, with Tesla, Volvo, and Polestar best positioned to move quickly under the quota as they already have certified vehicles and established retail networks in Canada.

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For 70 years, a simple idea has shaped efforts to reduce prejudice: put people from different groups together under the right conditions, and contact reduces prejudice. Gordon Allport proposed it in 1954. A landmark 2006 meta-analysis of 515 studies seemed to confirm it, reporting an average effect of 0.4 standard deviations on prejudice measures. That paper has been cited more than 14,000 times. The credibility revolution has undermined this evidence, by correcting for publication bias that meant null results were seldom published. Matt Lowe of the Vancouver School of Economics has published a new review of 41 pre-registered studies, and he finds the average effect is one-tenth of a standard deviation. Those 41 pre-registered intergroup contact experiments cover nearly 40,000 participants across a wide range of countries, roughly half of them in the Global South. He tells Tim Phillips that the effects are real, consistently positive … but consistently small. Contact interventions are a waste of time. Costs can be low, and the alternatives have not yet been held to the same rigorous standard. But the gap between what the old literature promised and what careful experiments deliver is large enough to matter for anyone designing programmes to reduce prejudice between groups.The research behind this episode:Lowe, Matt. 2025. "Has Intergroup Contact Delivered?" Annual Review of Economics 17.To cite this episode:Phillips, Tim. 2026. "Has Intergroup Contact Delivered?" VoxDev Talk (podcast). Assign this as extra listening: the citation above is formatted and ready for a reading list or VLE.About Matt LoweMatt Lowe is an assistant professor at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia, a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar, and a J-PAL faculty affiliate whose research spans intergroup relations, development, and political economy. His website is at mattjlowe.github.io. He has previously been published in VoxDev discussing his field experiment on collaborative and adversarial caste integration through cricket leagues in India.Research cited in this episodeAllport, Gordon W. 1954. The Nature of Prejudice. Addison-Wesley. The founding text of intergroup contact theory, which proposed that contact between groups reduces prejudice when it meets four conditions: equal status, common goals, intergroup cooperation, and support from authorities.Pettigrew, Thomas F., and Linda R. Tropp. 2006. "A Meta-Analytic Test of Intergroup Contact Theory." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 90 (5). The 515-study meta-analysis that established the 0.4 standard deviation benchmark for contact effects and became the dominant reference point for the field.Paluck, Elizabeth Levy, Roni Porat, Chelsey S. Clark, and Donald P. Green. 2021. "Prejudice Reduction: Progress and Challenges." Annual Review of Psychology 72. A review of 418 experiments on prejudice reduction from 2007 to 2019, identifying troubling signs of publication bias and finding that most studies evaluate light-touch, small-scale interventions with uncertain long-term effects.Scacco, Alexandra, and Shana S. Warren. 2018. "Can Social Contact Reduce Prejudice and Discrimination? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria." American Political Science Review 112 (3). A randomised field experiment mixing Christian and Muslim young men in a vocational training programme in Kaduna, Nigeria. Contact reduced discriminatory behaviour but did not change attitudes.Mousa, Salma. 2020. "Building Social Cohesion between Christians and Muslims through Soccer in Post-ISIS Iraq." Science 369 (6505). Randomly assigned Iraqi Christian displaced persons to football teams with Muslim teammates. Effects were positive on behaviours within the intervention but did not generalise to interactions with Muslim strangers outside it.Chakraborty, Anujit, Arkadev Ghosh, Matt Lowe, and Gareth Nellis. 2024. "Learning About Outgroups: The Impact of Broad Versus Deep Interactions." SSRN Working Paper. A field experiment in India finding that broad contact (meeting many different outgroup members) corrects misperceptions about outgroups, while deep contact (sustained interaction with one person) builds social and economic ties. Neither type generalises fully to the wider outgroup.Lowe, Matt. 2021. "Types of Contact: A Field Experiment on Collaborative and Adversarial Caste Integration." American Economic Review 111 (6). Randomly assigned Indian men from different castes to cricket teams or control groups, finding that collaborative contact increased cross-caste friendships and efficiency in trade while adversarial contact reduced them.More VoxDev Talks on this topicPromoting national integration in Nigeria: Tim Phillips talks to Oyebola Okunogbe about her research on the Nigerian National Youth Service Corps, which posts university graduates to states other than their own to promote national integration through intergroup contact.Peacemaking, peacebuilding and post-war reconstruction: Salma Mousa and Lisa Hultman discuss what the evidence shows about building peace and social cohesion after conflict, including which interventions hold up and which do not.Building social cohesion in ethnically mixed schools: an intervention in Turkey: Sule Alan discusses a programme designed to build cohesion between children from different ethnic backgrounds in Turkish schools, with effects on peer violence, reciprocity, and interethnic friendships.Related reading on VoxDevHow competition between villages helped divided communities in Indonesia: in ethnically diverse or divided settings, shared efforts towards a collective external goal can help bridge internal divides and build a shared identity.Reducing prejudice towards forced migrants through perspective taking: evidence on how perspective-taking interventions affect attitudes towards refugees and displaced populations.How a documentary film fostered interethnic harmony in Bangladesh: a media-based approach to reducing intergroup prejudice, examining what content and delivery can shift attitudes at scale.

Financial repression forces banks and citizens to hold government debt on terms the market would never accept. Economists have called it distortionary for fifty years. It never went away.Oleg Itskhoki and Dmitry Mukhin study what happens when a government runs out of options. Their paper traces how Russia deployed financial repression in 2022 to survive the largest sanctions package in postwar history. The ruble was in freefall; banning cash withdrawals and forcing exporters to hand over foreign currency revenues stopped the crisis. The measures worked because Russia kept earning export income, and the sanctions never closed that tap. But with government debt in advanced economies now at historic highs, financial repression is no longer confined to authoritarian regimes under siege. It is a path of least resistance for a government that would rather suppress the symptoms of unsustainable debt than carry out the fiscal reforms needed to fix it.The research behind this episode:Itskhoki, Oleg, and Dmitry Mukhin. 2026. "Sanctions, Capital Outflows, and Financial Repression." Economic Policy: Papers on European and Global Issues.To cite this episode:Phillips, Tim. 2026. "Sanctions, Capital Outflows, and Financial Repression." Economic Policy: Papers on European and Global Issues (podcast).Assign this as extra listening. The citation above is formatted and ready for a reading list or VLE.About the guestsOleg Itskhoki is a professor of economics at Harvard University. His research spanning international macroeconomics, exchange rates, capital flows, and financial frictions has reshaped how economists think about currency crises and the limits of open-economy models. He received the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association in 2022.Research cited in this episodeThe Washington Consensus was the post-Cold War policy framework, closely associated with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, that advocated free capital markets and discouraged government intervention in exchange rates or cross-border capital flows. Under this framework, financial repression was considered illegitimate; the goal was a more market-oriented, liberal macroeconomic order. As Itskhoki notes, the consensus has frayed considerably since the 2008 financial crisis, and the IMF now endorses certain forms of capital flow management under specific circumstances, though the broader norm against persistent financial repression remains.Financial repression is any government intervention that distorts the private financial decisions of domestic agents. In its traditional form, it meant forcing the banking sector to hold government debt at below-market returns, crowding out private investment and reducing the fiscal cost of high debt levels. The term covers a wide range of tools: restrictions on cash withdrawals, requirements that exporters convert foreign currency revenues to the central bank, interest rate ceilings, and policies designed to prevent citizens from holding savings in foreign currencies. Itskhoki distinguishes between its use in normal times (which he regards as distortionary and unjustified except as a last resort) and its deployment in emergencies such as financial crises, bank runs, or external sanctions, where it may be the only available stabilising instrument.Capital controls are government restrictions on cross-border capital flows. They are related to but distinct from financial repression: capital controls concern what money can cross borders; financial repression concerns what domestic agents can do with money at home. The two are often deployed together under external pressure.Dollarization describes the tendency of households and businesses in economies with weak or unstable currencies to save and transact in foreign currency, typically US dollars, rather than the domestic currency. Governments often use financial repression to discourage dollarization, restricting access to foreign currency holdings domestically. Itskhoki notes this is one of the many forms the policy takes beyond its traditional debt-management role.Russia's use of financial repression after the 2022 sanctions. Following the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Western governments imposed an unprecedented package of financial sanctions, trade restrictions, and asset freezes. The ruble depreciated sharply. Russia's response included a tax on foreign currency purchases, mandatory conversion of exporters' foreign currency revenues to the central bank, and direct restrictions on cash withdrawals from bank accounts. The ruble stabilised and recovered within weeks. Itskhoki argues the measures succeeded in the short term not because financial repression is inherently powerful against sanctions, but because the sanctions failed to close off Russian export income; Russia kept receiving substantial foreign currency from energy sales, reducing the pressure on the tools of repression. The structural gap in the sanctions regime was the failure to curtail Russian export revenues.The "What's Next for Ukraine?" seriesListen to our three-part series based on papers presented at the 1st Economic Policy: Papers on European and Global Issues Conference, Paris, December 2025.Giacomo Anastasia, Tito Boeri, and Oleksandr Zholud: what the data from Ukraine's wartime labour market reveal about employment, displacement, and the economic costs of the war. Also in the series: Maurice Obstfeld and Yuriy Gorodnichenko on financial inflows, integration, and the growth prospects of a westward-facing Ukraine. Also in the series: Edward Glaeser, Martina Kirchberger, and Andrii Parkhomenko on how to rebuild Ukraine's cities, and why the choice of what to reconstruct matters as much as the scale of investment. 

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Ukraine has lost close to a quarter of its civilian workforce since the invasion. Three and a half million workers left government-controlled areas: mobilised into the armed forces, displaced inside the country, gone abroad as refugees, or killed. Giacomo Anastasia, Tito Boeri, and Oleksandr Zholud draw on an unprecedented wartime dataset to document how Ukraine's labour market adapted under that pressure. What they find is not what you might expect. Aggregate matching efficiency fell by only about 15%; less than the decline recorded in the United States during the 2008 financial crisis. Firms hired women into roles previously closed to them by law, took on older workers and people with disabilities, and expanded remote work to keep displaced employees and refugees connected to Ukrainian payrolls. The collapse was real, but concentrated: in contested territories near the frontline, employment fell to less than half its pre-war level and vacancy postings dropped to virtually zero. The question the paper poses for reconstruction is how to sustain that resilience, absorb close to a million returning soldiers, and begin to reverse what five years of disrupted schooling has done to a generation.The research behind this episode:Anastasia, Giacomo M., Tito Boeri, and Oleksandr Zholud. 2026. "A Wartime Labor Market: The Case of Ukraine." Economic Policy: Papers on European and Global Issues, special issue: "What's Next for Ukraine?"To cite this episode:Phillips, Tim. 2026. "What's Next for Ukraine: A Wartime Labour Market." Economic Policy: Papers on European and Global Issues (podcast).Assign this as extra listening. The citation above is formatted and ready for a reading list or VLE.About the guestsGiacomo Anastasia is a PhD student in Economics at Columbia University and Columbia Business School. His research interests include public economics, labour economics, and industrial organisation.Tito Boeri is Professor of Economics at Bocconi University and one of Europe's leading authorities on labour markets, unemployment insurance, and welfare state reform. He served as President of INPS, Italy's national social security institution, from 2015 to 2019.Oleksandr Zholud is a researcher at the National Bank of Ukraine. He was central to maintaining the economic data systems that continued to function through the war, and which made the empirical work in this paper possible. Research cited in this episodeThe civilian labour force contraction is estimated at roughly twenty to twenty-five per cent of the pre-war workforce in government-controlled areas, equivalent to a loss of around 3.5 million workers. The calculation combines refugees abroad (between six and seven million, of whom approximately seventy per cent are of working age), military mobilisation (at least 800,000 since 2022, up from 250,000 before the war), and combat casualties. The authors note that a shock of this scale has almost no modern precedent; the closest comparisons are Serbia's losses in the First World War and the economic disruption caused by the 1994 Rwandan genocide.Work.ua is the largest online job-search platform in Ukraine, covering around 125,000 firms and 4.5 million workers. The paper draws on weekly data from Work.ua on vacancy postings, job-seeker resumes, and offered and expected wages to track labour market dynamics across sectors and regions throughout the war. This platform data continued to be updated through the conflict and provided the primary source for the paper's matching analysis, replacing the State Statistics Service household survey, which suspended publication after the invasion.The InfoSapiens household survey, commissioned by the National Bank of Ukraine since 2021, serves as the wartime replacement for the State Statistics Service quarterly Labour Force Survey. It interviews around 1,000 individuals per quarter on employment, unemployment, and labour force participation, stratified by gender, age, region, and settlement size. Despite its smaller sample, it remains the primary regular survey-based source on Ukraine's labour market since the full-scale invasion.The State Employment Service (SES) firm survey, conducted in January 2025 in cooperation with Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation, covered 55,000 enterprises employing 4.2 million workers plus 70,000 registered unemployed persons. This cross-sectional survey provided the paper's evidence on how recruitment practices, remote work adoption, and workforce composition changed after the invasion; it is described in the paper as one of the largest wartime enterprise surveys of its kind.Air raid alarm data are used as the paper's proxy for regional exposure to the war. When missiles or drone attacks are detected, sirens activate across affected areas; the authors use the frequency and duration of these alarms to classify Ukrainian regions on a spectrum from low-exposure (western oblasts such as Lviv) to high-exposure (eastern regions such as Kharkiv) to contested (partially or fully occupied territories including parts of Donetsk and Luhansk). This classification is the basis for the paper's finding that war intensity is the primary driver of differences in labour market outcomes across regions.Matching efficiency is a standard labour economics measure of how effectively the market converts a given stock of unemployed workers and open vacancies into new hires. A fall in matching efficiency means that jobs and workers exist but find each other more slowly. The paper estimates that Ukraine's aggregate matching efficiency declined by about fifteen per cent after the invasion; a smaller fall than the more than twenty per cent recorded in the United States during the 2008 financial crisis, though with severe deterioration concentrated in frontline and contested regions, where matching efficiency dropped by close to twenty-five per cent.Remote work as a retention mechanism. A survey of Ukrainian refugees abroad found that roughly forty per cent of those in employment were working for Ukrainian firms remotely. Those maintaining an employment link to a Ukrainian company reported a significantly higher intention to return to Ukraine after the war compared with refugees employed by foreign firms. Anastasia argues this makes remote work not only an economic adaptation but a tool for sustaining the connection between displaced workers and the country they may one day return to rebuild.More in the "What's Next for Ukraine?" seriesThis episode is the third and final in a series based on papers presented at the inaugural Economic Policy winter conference, Paris, December 2025.Episode 1, with Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Maurice Obstfeld: why $40 billion a year in investment is more achievable than it sounds, why deep debt restructuring is a prerequisite for attracting private capital, and what the Euroclear frozen assets could unlock. Episode 2, with Edward Glaeser, Martina Kirchberger, and Andrii Parkhomenko: why the right model for rebuilding Ukraine's cities is postwar Tokyo rather than postwar Berlin or Warsaw, and why directing reconstruction spending towards the most damaged regions would be rebuilding in the wrong direction. Related reading on VoxEUThe labour market in Ukraine: Rebuild better, the companion VoxEU column by Anastasia, Boeri, and Zholud, summarising the paper's findings on matching efficiency, firm adjustment, and the policy priorities for reconstruction. You only live twice: A growth strategy for Ukraine, Gorodnichenko and Obstfeld's companion column to Episode 1, making the case for $40 billion a year in investment and explaining why EU and NATO accession momentum is the key enabling condition.Rebuilding cities in Ukraine, a VoxEU column on the spatial and urban decisions that will shape how Ukraine's cities develop in the decades after the war, and why the Tokyo model of decentralised land readjustment is the right precedent.

In cities across low- and middle-income countries, traffic crawls 24 hours a day. In Dhaka during rush hour, speeds average around 15km/h. At three in the morning, when the roads are empty, they average about 20km/h. Urban transport in the developing world is not only slow because of congestion. And so congestion policy, Adam Storeygard of Tufts University argues, gets you a small fraction of the way to solving the problems of urban transport in LMICs.That counterintuitive finding is one many themes in Storeygard's wide-ranging review of what research actually tells us about how people in LMICs get from A to B. From informal minibuses to bus rapid transit, from a field experiment in Bangalore that tested congestion pricing to the long shadow of colonial railroads still shaping African trade today, the picture that emerges is more nuanced and more interesting than many policy blueprints suggest. He tells Tim Phillips what the evidence supports, where it runs out, and why fixing the roads won't fix everything.The research behind this episode:Storeygard, Adam. 2025. "Transport in Low- and Middle-Income Countries." NBER Working Paper 34354. Forthcoming in a special issue of Regional Science and Urban Economics.To cite this episode:Phillips, Tim. 2026. "Transport in Low- and Middle-Income Countries." VoxDev Talk (podcast). Assign this as extra listening: the citation above is formatted and ready for a reading list or VLE.About Adam StoreygardAdam Storeygard is Professor of Economics at Tufts University, where his research focuses on urbanisation, transportation, and the economic geography of the developing world, in particular sub-Saharan Africa. Much of his work uses geographic and satellite data to study how infrastructure shapes where people live, how they move, and how economies develop.Research cited in this episodeAkbar, Prottoy Aman, Victor Couture, Gilles Duranton, and Adam Storeygard. 2023. "The Fast, the Slow, and the Congested: Urban Transportation in Rich and Poor Countries." NBER Working Paper 31642. The paper behind the Dhaka finding: assembling travel speed data across 1,200 cities in 152 countries, the authors show that cities in poor countries are roughly half as fast as those in rich countries, and that most of the gap is not congestion but structural low speeds in the absence of traffic.Björkegren, Daniel, Alice Duhaut, Geetika Nagpal, and Nick Tsivanidis. 2025. "Public and Private Transit: Evidence from Lagos." Working paper. When Lagos introduced a major new public bus system, informal drivers on affected routes left,  so bus frequency on those routes fell on net. The big benefit accrued to other routes that informal drivers switched to, where prices and waiting times fell. Winners and losers, not a clean gain.Franklin, Simon. 2018. "Location, Search Costs and Youth Unemployment: Experimental Evidence from Transport Subsidies." Economic Journal 128 (614). A randomised trial in Addis Ababa: providing transport subsidies to unemployed young people helped them search for and find formal jobs. Effects did not persist once subsidies ended, raising questions about how much the transport constraint itself was the binding one.Borker, Girija. 2021. "Safety First: Perceived Risk of Street Harassment and Educational Choices of Women." World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9731. Women in Delhi attend less selective colleges than male peers with identical academic credentials, not because they are not admitted, but because of perceived harassment risk during the commute. Delhi university students overwhelmingly live with their parents, and the daily journey matters as much as the institution.Kreindler, Gabriel. 2024. "Peak-Hour Road Congestion Pricing: Experimental Evidence and Equilibrium Implications." Econometrica 92 (4). A field experiment in Bangalore, paying drivers to avoid congested areas and times. The finding: congestion pricing would produce only modest benefits in Bangalore because traffic density has a relatively moderate impact on speed there, meaning you would have to charge astronomically high prices to shift behaviour significantly.Jedwab, Remi, and Adam Storeygard. 2022. "The Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 1960–2010." Journal of the European Economic Association 20 (1). Shows how transportation infrastructure investments, including the legacy of colonial railroads built primarily to connect mines to ports, continue to shape where Africans live and how countries trade, with consequences that push African economies toward overseas rather than intra-regional commerce.More VoxDev Talks on this topicMichelson, Hope, 2026, “African agriculture's underappreciated supply side.” VoxDev Talk. How transport links are one of the many impediments that stop rural farmers from making the most of the opportunities of better agricultural inputs.Related reading on VoxDev"Urban transport infrastructure in developing countries”, the VoxDevLit review of research on urban transport in LMICs, covering buses, BRT, subways, and informal transit networks."Who wins when public transit challenges private transit?”, the Lagos bus reform discussed in this episode, with further detail on how informal drivers responded to new public routes."Perceived risk of street harassment and college choice of women in Delhi”, Girija Borker's research on how commute safety shapes women's educational choices, as discussed by Storeygard in this episode."The equitable benefits of Colombia's bus rapid transit system”, complements the discussion of BRT in Bogota, one of Storeygard's three best-evidenced cases for BRT benefits.

Ukraine's cities were failing long before the Russian invasion began. Kyiv and Lviv ranked among the 40 most congested cities in the world, yet neither makes the top 100 by population. Ninety per cent of Ukraine's housing stock was built before 1990. Its urban infrastructure was designed for a Soviet economy and never properly adapted for the one that followed. So when reconstruction begins, the question is not simply how to repair what was there: it is whether repairing what was there is the right goal.Edward Glaeser of Harvard, Martina Kirchberger of Trinity College Dublin, and Andrii Parkhomenko of the University of Southern California argue that the most instructive precedent is not post-USSR Warsaw, or postwar Berlin, it is postwar Tokyo. Firebombed into ruin, Tokyo rebuilt in a way that was strikingly decentralised: master plans quickly abandoned, local communities empowered to combine small lots through land readjustment, and figure it out from the bottom up. Before the war, Ukraine's economic activity was already shifting away from heavy industry and the east, towards services and the west. Reconstruction that concentrates investment where the damage is greatest, rather than where people want to build a new life, would repair the buildings and miss the point.The research behind this episode:Glaeser, Edward L., Martina Kirchberger, and Andrii Parkhomenko. 2025. "Rebuilding Ukraine's Cities: Maximizing Benefits and Minimizing Costs." Economic Policy: Papers on European and Global Issues, special issue: "What's Next for Ukraine?" To cite this episode:Phillips, Tim. 2026, "What's Next for Ukraine: Reconstruction." Economic Policy: Papers on European and Global Issues (podcast). Assign this as extra listening: the citation above is formatted and ready for a reading list or VLE.About the guestsEdward Glaeser is Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is one of the world's leading urban economists, with a research agenda spanning cities, housing markets, economic growth, and governance.Martina Kirchberger is a CEPR Research Affiliate and Assistant Professor in Economics at Trinity College Dublin. Her research focuses on structural transformation, urban economics, and development in low- and middle-income countries.Andrii Parkhomenko is Assistant Professor of Real Estate at the USC Marshall School of Business and a researcher at the Kyiv School of Economics. His work centers on urban and spatial economics, with a particular focus on housing markets and city growth.Research cited in this episodeUkraine Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment, World Bank Group, European Commission, and UN, 2024. The source of the physical damage figure cited in this episode: approximately $175 billion by the end of 2024, with estimates for end-2025 likely exceeding $200 billion. Some independent projections cited by Glaeser run to $500 billion or above.The concept of investing-in-investing, referenced by Kirchberger, originates in work by Paul Collier on how resource-rich developing countries can scale up capital investment effectively. It refers to the prior investments in institutions, skills, and capacity that must be made before large-scale capital flows can be productively absorbed. The implication for Ukraine: there is work to do now, before reconstruction begins at scale.The Tokyo land readjustment model, which Glaeser cited as the most instructive reconstruction precedent, allowed owners of small fragmented lots to pool their land, redevelop it jointly, and receive a share of the new property in exchange for their stake in the old. It enabled large-scale urban reconstruction without central expropriation, and without waiting for government direction. The mechanism remains in active use in Japanese urban planning.The Solidere reconstruction of central Beirut was raised as a cautionary counterexample: a centralised, top-down rebuild that produced a high-end commercial district with questionable benefit to ordinary Lebanese, and which substantially enriched its private shareholders. The contrast with Tokyo's decentralised model is the episode's sharpest illustration of what reconstruction can and cannot achieve when organised from above.More in the "What's Next for Ukraine?" seriesThis episode is the second in a three-part series based on papers presented at the inaugural Economic Policy winter conference, Paris, December 2025.Episode 1: Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Maurice Obstfeld on the investment and financing challenge: $40 billion a year, debt restructuring as a prerequisite for private capital, and why the number is more achievable than it sounds.Episode 3: Demobilisation and the labour market: getting soldiers back into work without breaking the economy that kept the country going. Related reading on VoxEURebuilding cities in Ukraine: A VoxEU column on the urban reconstruction challenge, including the spatial decisions that will shape how Ukraine's cities develop in the decades after the war.A blueprint for the reconstruction of Ukraine: A comprehensive VoxEU overview of the reconstruction architecture: what institutions are needed, how international financing can be coordinated, and what the sequencing of investment should look like.Completing Ukraine's reconstruction architecture: On the remaining gaps in the international framework for financing and coordinating Ukraine's rebuild, and what needs to happen before reconstruction can begin at the required scale.Lessons for rebuilding Ukraine from economic recoveries after natural disasters: What the evidence from post-disaster reconstruction in other countries tells us about what works, what fails, and how quickly economies can return to their pre-shock trajectories.

Ukraine will emerge from this war with enormous debt. The conventional wisdom treats that as an obstacle: investors weigh it before committing capital, and the burden slows the recovery before it starts. Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Maurice Obstfeld of UC Berkeley argue the opposite. A thorough restructuring of Ukraine's war debts – including, for sufficiently large obligations, outright forgiveness – is not just politically defensible but economically essential for attracting private investment. The bill for rebuilding and growing Ukraine, Gorodnichenko estimates, is $40 billion a year: $20 billion to replace destroyed capital, $10 billion to stop Ukraine falling behind its Eastern European peers, and $10 billion to start closing the gap. Put that figure next to what Poland absorbed in FDI during its post-communist transition, or the €200 billion of Russian state assets currently immobilised in Euroclear, or the budgetary support Ukraine has been receiving since 2022 – and it looks achievable. The harder challenge, they argue, is not raising $40 billion. It is directing it: towards investment rather than consumption. Ukraine didn't grow in the post-Soviet era at the rate that its neighbours achieved. EU accession momentum and secure borders can be a signal to investors that this time the trajectory will be different.The research behind this episode:Gorodnichenko, Yuriy, and Maurice Obstfeld. 2026. "You Only Live Twice: Financial Inflows and Growth in a Westward-Facing Ukraine." Economic Policy: Papers on European and Global Issues, special issue: "What's Next for Ukraine?"To cite this episode:Phillips, Tim. 2025. "You Only Live Twice: Financial Inflows and Growth in a Westward-Facing Ukraine." Economic Policy: Papers on European and Global Issues (podcast).Assign this as extra listening — the citation above is formatted and ready for a reading list or VLE.About the guestsYuriy Gorodnichenko is a CEPR Research Fellow and Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he leads CEPR's Ukraine Initiative. His research spans monetary policy, fiscal policy, and the macroeconomics of growth and business cycles.Maurice Obstfeld is a CEPR Distinguished Fellow and Class of 1958 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He served as Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund from 2015 to 2018, and as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Obama from 2014 to 2015. He is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Research cited in this episodeThe discussion of debt overhang draws on a body of work from the 1980s developing-country debt crises, notably the insight that for sufficiently indebted countries, debt reduction can increase the expected value of what creditors recover. Gorodnichenko and Obstfeld apply this framework directly to Ukraine's war debts, arguing that deep restructuring – supported by bilateral official creditors, many of whom are European – is a prerequisite for private investment to follow.The €200 billion figure for immobilised Russian central bank assets held at Euroclear is the basis for Obstfeld's proposal of a reparations loan that would give Ukraine immediate access to large-scale resources, with repayment contingent on Russian reparations. This is discussed in more detail in the related reading below.More in the "What's Next for Ukraine?" seriesThis episode is the first in a three-part series based on papers presented at the inaugural Economic Policy winter conference, Paris, December 2025. Episodes 2 and 3, on rebuilding and the labour market, are forthcoming.Related reading on VoxEUYou only live twice: A growth strategy for Ukraine — Gorodnichenko and Obstfeld's own VoxEU column summarising the key arguments in this paper: why $40 billion a year is achievable, what the policy levers are, and why the window matters.Euroclear and the geopolitics of immobilised Russian assets — The legal and financial context behind the €200 billion of Russian central bank assets frozen at Euroclear, and what it would take to use them for a reparations loan to Ukraine.Using the returns of frozen Russian assets to finance the victory of Ukraine — A VoxEU proposal for channelling the interest income generated by frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine's needs, without requiring the more politically contested step of confiscating the assets themselves.Ukraine's recovery challenge — An earlier VoxEU overview of the reconstruction task: the scale of damage, the role of EU accession, and the two-phase approach to restoring growth.

Particulate matter is, Michael Greenstone argues, the greatest public health threat on the planet. Worse than HIV, cigarettes, and alcohol. The average person  loses about two years of life expectancy to it. In India, the figure is three and a half years. The solution to this problem has been tested, and it works, at least in high-income countries.Greenstone and his co-authors ran a randomised controlled trial in Surat, Gujarat: from 300 industrial plants, mostly making textiles, all burning coal, half were randomly assigned to a market where pollution permits could be bought and sold. The results: in the market, pollution fell 25%, compliance was near-perfect, and abatement costs dropped 12%. The cost-benefit ratio is as high as 200 to one. Many plants in the control group asked to be moved into the market.The research behind this episode:Greenstone, Michael, Rohini Pande, Nicholas Ryan, and Anant Sudarshan. 2025. "Can Pollution Markets Work in Developing Countries? Experimental Evidence from India." Quarterly Journal of Economics 140 (2): 1003–1060. An ungated version is available as BFI Working Paper 2025-53.To cite this episode:Phillips, Tim. 2025. "Can Pollution Markets Work in Developing Countries?" VoxDev Talk (podcast).  Assign this as extra listening: the citation above is formatted and ready for a reading list or VLE.About Michael GreenstoneMichael Greenstone is the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, where he is the founding Director of the Energy Policy Institute at Chicago (EPIC) and the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth. His research focuses on the costs and benefits of environmental quality, including the Air Quality Life Index, which tracks the toll of particulate pollution country by country. He previously served as Chief Economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisers under President Obama. Research cited in this episodeAir Quality Life Index (AQLI), Energy Policy Institute at Chicago. The source of the life-expectancy statistics used in this episode: particulate pollution costs the average person on Earth roughly two years of life expectancy, with India averaging three and a half years. The index tracks this burden country by country, city by city.The US sulphur dioxide cap-and-trade programme, established under the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, was the canonical precedent Greenstone cited: a market that dramatically reduced acid rain in the eastern United States at costs far below pre-programme projections. He noted that the UK and EU have since built comparable CO2 markets. All have worked well. The question this experiment addressed was whether the same logic held in the developing world, where almost all the pollution now is.Emissions Market Accelerator. An independent scale-up organisation founded by Greenstone and colleagues to replicate the Gujarat model beyond the original research setting. Current pipeline: a statewide sulphur dioxide market for Maharashtra (including large power plants, not just textiles), and advanced conversations in Pakistan and Brazil. Within Gujarat, a water pollution market is also in development.More VoxDev Talks on this topicRegulating pollution in low- and middle-income countries Rohini Pande and Nicholas Ryan, two co-authors of the paper discussed in this episode, on the political economy of pollution regulation in developing countries: why enforcement is hard, and what makes it work.Air pollution and infant mortality Jennifer Burney on the health costs of particulate air pollution for young children, and what the evidence from Saharan dust patterns across Sub-Saharan Africa reveals about exposure and mortality.The Social Cost of Carbon Michael Greenstone's earlier VoxDev Talk, on how assigning a monetary value to carbon emissions can drive better policy decisions and make the case for action that regulation alone struggles to make.Related reading on VoxDevReducing air pollution: Evidence from payments to reduce crop burning in India How cash payments to farmers in northern India changed behaviour and cut the seasonal haze from crop fires that pushes Delhi's air quality to its worst each winter.Paying to pollute: How carbon offsets actually raised emissions in China A cautionary study on market-based pollution controls: when incentives point the wrong way, a market can make things worse rather than better.The effect of pollution on worker productivity: Evidence from call-centre workers in China Air pollution reduces cognitive performance and output, adding an economic productivity argument to the health case for cleaning the air.

In this first installment of our two‑part Pharm to Table special on MK‑7845, Dani and LC sit down with medicinal chemist Valerie Shurtleff to unpack the discovery journey behind this 3CL protease inhibitor—from early structural insights to an unexpectedly effective difluorobutyl isostere. Val walks us through how the team balanced potency, VLE, metabolic challenges, and design intuition to land on a well‑rounded preclinical candidate - one of the most dynamic programs of her career. Along the way, she reminds us why asking good questions, collaborating relentlessly, and occasionally surviving a “Hot Ones” challenge are all essential scientific skills. It's an episode packed with chemistry, creativity, and just enough fluorine to keep things spicy.Stay tuned for Part 2, where we shift from invention to implementation and explore how the process chemistry team brought MK‑7845 to life at scale.Read some of the papers we discussed today:Invention of MK-7845, a SARS-CoV-2 3CL Protease Inhibitor Employing a Novel Difluorinated Glutamine Mimic - J. Med. Chem.Follow the Pharm to Table podcast on X - ⁠⁠⁠⁠@PharmtoTablePod⁠⁠⁠⁠Visit our website at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pharm-to-table⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Join Chris Brown of Automotive Fleet and Dr. Andreas Zygan, head of development for Mercedes-Benz Vans, for a tour of the Vision V concept vehicle. Vision V showcases the brand's new scalable van architecture launching in 2026, which will underpin the upcoming VLE and VLS models. Designed for both private and commercial applications — from the C-Suite, VIP shuttles, and hotel fleets — the Vision V “grand limousine” is designed around luxury, flexibility, and advanced technology. Dr. Zygan shares how this concept demonstrates the design and functionality direction for future Mercedes vans.Mercedes-Benz will launch the VLE on its newly developed, modular, and scalable van architecture in 2026, followed by the top-end VLS. 

In this episode, Simon Birkett chats to Jackie Potter, Helen O'Sullivan and Laura Milne from the University of Chester about their digital transformation journey, from beginning to work through Jisc's digital maturity model, to redesigning their VLE. The guests begin by reflecting on their recent demonstrating digital transformation event held at the university, showcasing their plans for learning development and the use of technology for learners. The conversation then turns to the importance of culture, people and process for successful digital transformation, with Jackie, Helen and Laura discussing the broad impact digital transformation can have all across the university. Next, the guests focus on their curriculum redesign project and the redevelopment of their VLE, bringing colleagues together for co-design sessions, daring to dream wild dreams about what was possible, gathering feedback and incorporating it into further rounds. Finally, the episode concludes with Jackie, Helen and Laura sharing their predictions for what the sector will look like in five years' time. Show notes: Read University of Chester's case study on their involvement in the research pilot of Jisc's digital transformation toolkit Learn more about Jisc's digital transformation toolkit Discover the ‘How to approach digital transformation in higher education' report and case studies Subscribe to Headlines - our newsletter which has all the latest edtech news, guidance and events tailored to you

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A Gartner study found that organizations prioritizing revenue enablement see a 41 percent increase in revenue attainment per seller. So how can you build an enablement strategy that drives results?Shawnna Sumaoang: Hi, and welcome to the Win Win Podcast. I am your host, Shawnna Sumaoang. Join us as we dive into changing trends in the workplace and how to navigate them successfully. Here to discuss this topic is Anthony Doyle, the director of sales enablement at Turnitin. Thanks for joining us, Anthony. I’d love for you to tell us all about yourself, your background, and your role. Anthony Doyle: Sure thing. Thanks for having me, Shawnna. My name is Anthony Doyle, I’m the director of sales and development as Shawnna said, at Turnitin.A little bit about myself, I started my career back around 1998 working in the education sector, building interactive multimedia learning materials for education. I started out on the tool side of the game and really building materials and building learning programs for UK institutions.And that was at the time when the VLE space, the virtual learning environment space had just started being created. So I was working on some of the early prototypes and software development for those types of systems. That led me to a sales role for around nine years, and that’s where I really learned my sales craft and my different selling methodologies. I think of solution selling, Milleheim, and those types of frameworks.Through that career, I built a massive knowledge of sales and marketing and went on to lead sales and marketing organizations at various ed tech companies. And what I found at those companies I was doing a lot of enablement. Before enablement was a thing and before it was coined as a type, a term, or a category, I was naturally developing sales teams, developing sales processes, selling systems, and things like that.So that led me to a bit of a consulting career, working with organizations to develop their sales and marketing practices. And then a couple of years ago, I decided I really wanted to get into a long-term role and join an organization where I could have a good tenure with, and be part of something from a longevity perspective, rather than going in and fixing and putting things in and then putting it in the hands of somebody else, to really see the long term development.I’ve been familiar with Turnitin since probably the late nineties. So when Turnitin was first founded, I’ve seen Turnitin grow up as a company and mature. So it was good to join them and get on the other side of that. And now I lead the sales and development practice here at Turnitin, which is part of the RevOps organization here. SS: Anthony, as you mentioned, you have extensive experience in enablement and you also have a very clear vision for your enablement strategy at Turnitin. What are the core components of your strategy and what are the key strategic initiatives you’re focused on driving this year through enablement? AD: It’s first important to say that when I joined the organization around just under three years ago, this strategy wasn’t what I led with initially. I led by really trying to figure out where the organization was at, what the goals of the org were, and figuring out some of the kind of key gaps initially that we needed to put in place in order then to be able to develop a strategy for the long term. So we focused initially on some of the competency development and a competency framework around what we wanted to really be driving in terms of our sales process and the skills underneath that. And then at the beginning of this year, I got together with my team ahead of the sales kickoff to really develop the sales and neighborhood strategy that would take us from 2024 through to 2026. And where we’ve landed with that, is we’ve got three pillars in the strategy. The first of those is: align and engage. And that pillar is around really aligning with the different sales regions, the different sales leaders, and, factoring in their regional intricacies and figuring out where their teams are at. And engaging those teams in a dialogue for development, for increasing all the key metrics and KPIs that you would expect. And then really moving into the next pillar, that’s around educating and inspiring, so it’s: educate and inspire. And that area is really around developing the training programs that will be inspiring sellers to engage and to develop their skill sets. The aim of, obviously, to develop the sales practice. The next pillar underneath that is: elevate and impact. And that’s really where the rubber meets the road, right? It’s about. impacting results and elevating the practice to a world-class sales level. So when I was hired, the MO was to develop a world-class selling organization that other people in the ed tech industry would recognize and want to be part of and want to come here because of the way that we do sell and the level of practice that we have.So that last pillar is about getting us there. Now, some of the initiatives, obviously that come under that, there’s many initiatives that we have. Some of those range from, at the align and engage level, just having a regional management cadence, so having a regular cadence. We restructured our sales enablement team to have a regional sales enablement manager in each one of our three key regions.And what we’re really looking to do is have that regular cadence with the first-line managers to understand what’s going on, and get coverage on where the sellers are at from a competency perspective and a sales capabilities rating. And then see what, we can drive programmatically down from that. Then we feed that into the next pillar, which is obviously, the education-focused pillar, the educate and inspire, where we’ll be looking to drive tailored training programs and we’ll be driving that through Highspot. And then obviously as we get to elevating the practice and driving impact, some of the things that we’re exploring there in terms of initiative is looking at Meeting Intelligence to figure out, where there’s coaching opportunity and where we can really drive that elevation of practice.SS: Amazing, and I love how you really centered them around those three core principles. How does your enablement platform, Highspot, help play a role in effectively executing your enablement strategy and supporting your strategic initiatives? AD: It’s a great question. First of all, you need, a place to be able to gravitate around and a place to be able to drive content, and programmatic training. We need somewhere to put that, and we need somewhere to drive that as well. So Highspot is pretty much our sales enablement hub. It’s where all of our content to do with messaging [lives], it’s where we do all of our onboarding, so when somebody first joins us, and we’re developing as part of the strategy role-based onboarding pathways.At the moment, we’ve got quite a generic onboarding pathway. So, we’re developing more personalized onboarding routes, depending on the role that you take within the org, and all of that first engagement starts with Highspot. And then the ever-boarding, things like sales systems training product messaging.Plays and we’re going to be looking at development sales kits as well. And we have got a strong partnership with our product marketing team and they develop well-built sales plays for our product motions. So a lot of that, all of that has to be housed somewhere, and it should be in one place, and it should be somewhere where you can understand how that’s being leveraged, and what impact that’s making. If we think about elevation and driving impact, we want to be able to know what’s working, and what’s not working. And if these motions and the training that we’re delivering is being consumed, how is that impacting on results?We look at correlations between where people are exhibiting certain behaviors, pitching more regularly, involving certain pieces of content within the sales cycle in Highspot, and how that’s driving back-to-end results. SS: Now, you mentioned the importance of driving regional alignment. How does this defined enablement strategy help you drive that alignment to execute against your strategic initiatives?AD: I think this is the key component really. What we found over the first two years when I joined the org being more transparency we weren’t seeing the traction we wanted with the adoption of some of the programs we’re developing. We built out a competency framework with really high-quality training that existed under that, we built customized frameworks for lead qualification.We have a framework called Nitro, and we felt the need to do that because of a lot of qualifications LMX, put things like budget – if you think of band – budget is at the top. You think of Adam, authority at the top. Whereas in our sector when we’re selling, the need is the key thing, right? You've got to have need at the top of the cycle.So we developed resources like that. As much as we try to drive awareness and adoption of those things, we weren’t really seeing it at a macro level. What we quickly recognized is, it was missing that regional engagement piece.We had to align, we had to figure out what the challenges were in the regions and then eat our own dog food, really, in terms of, if we’re trying to push a problem-based selling approach. Really, we should take the same approach ourselves as enablement and figure out what’s going on and diagnose before we start prescribing things like nitro and, sprints, prospecting frameworks, and things like this. And certain training, we should try and figure out first, where are the sellers are, and what’s their biggest opportunity to improve. And even if they’re really high-performing sales teams, it’s like any sport, right? You can be the world’s heavyweight champion of the world, right? Of boxing, but you know where you want to develop muscle and you want to develop strength or, refine certain techniques.But you can probably talk to that very quickly if you’re engaged and say, “Hey, if you’re going to coach me for two hours, Muhammad Ali, and bring him back this is what I want you to work with me on.” So that’s the approach we’ve now been taking, and we think it’s crucial to get the alignment.Because then when we’re asking those questions to the first line managers and they’re saying this is where I want your help. When we offer that help we’re going to get the adoption. We’re going to get the engagement because they’ve asked for it. SS: I love that notion of elevate and inspire. How do you think about that when structuring your coaching programs, especially across regions and how can real-world coaching help drive consistent execution of your strategic initiatives around the world? AD: So one of the first things we did, one of the first things I did when I joined the org is redevelop the sales process. We merged about two or three separate organizations together and they all had slightly different sales processes. So what we said is really what we feel is important is breaking down the sales process and looking at what are the capabilities that sellers need to really craft, and work on to be successful in any buy-in journey. So we now have is we have ten core sales competencies or sales capabilities that are mapped under our sales process. So what we’ve done is develop material around them, developed job aids, a pre-discovery planning worksheet, a vision engineering worksheet, and things like that.Frameworks for mitigating objections using things like layer, and another approach is mid labels and mirroring and techniques like that, psychological selling techniques, and negotiation techniques. And we’ve developed assets around these things. So what we’re effectively doing when we’re aligning with the regions is talking to the regional manager about what they’re seeing in results where they’re seeing the average pipeline velocities and the kind of metrics around pipeline health.We’ve got that presented now in dashboards. We’ve got a fantastic BI team here, so they’ve looked at a lot of depth on the pipeline, and our regional sales managers can have that dialogue with the sales manager in the region and say, “Hey, based on this, what capabilities do you think we can further develop in your teams?”And then what we’re doing from there is building a programmatic approach to that. So instead of just doing a training and saying, we’re done, we’re actually building a four-week program or a six-week program around that, and we’re layering in different training, driving bespoke activities and workshop activities and different fun ways of engaging the teams.And then we’re driving that and we’re rolling that out through Highspot on a learning path, and then we’re seeing how the teams that we’re engaging on Zoom, to get like feedback and where you’re struggling. How have you applied this over the last four weeks? What are you finding?What’s not working, what’s working? We’re getting that kind of tribal knowledge culture moving across the teams. And that we feel is the right approach. SS: Now we’ve touched on this a bit, but, as we’ve been talking about this, you have helped to globalize your Highspot instance and you’re seeing amazing impact, I think you guys are at 86% adoption. Can you tell us more about this effort and how it has helped to keep your teams aligned across regions? AD: When we first deployed Highspot, what we did was we took quite a wide approach to it. And obviously, we’ve got many different regions. We’ve got teams in Asia, and we’ve got many different languages that are spoken.We’ve got teams whose primary language is Japanese, so we’ve got content that’s translated into Japanese. We’ve got folks in the Netherlands, in Germany, in Spain, in Mexico, we’ve got people in the Philippines, in all over the world, Australia, et cetera. Now, when you think about collateral and marketing material, and when you start translating that, what we’ve done and a mistake we made, to be honest, is we put that all centrally in one kind of like product by product, we had different Spots in Highspot.  But what happened is that quickly became overwhelming for people because when they were searching or when they were trying to service content, they were finding lots of content that wasn’t applicable to them. It was in Japanese and their clients don’t speak Japanese.And, obviously, once people were leaning into that content and some of the teams are leaning in and using it, that was bubbling to the top in some of the lists and on the smart pages and things like on the Spot overviews. So what we did is we restructured Highspot to take more of an approach where our core, primary language content, that’s American English or British English is in a central spot, and then we created regional spots.We used the group feature of Highspot to collect all these teams into groups so that they only had access to the materials and the regions that mattered to them. And that helped a lot because it meant that content was easily found. It was more applicable. They also had their own spaces where regional marketing teams could start driving certain motions and specific. Materials that are right and relevant to those regions. So that helped in just thinking more thoughtfully around the process of structuring Highspot in the way that’s going to best serve the sellers.  And then I think the key thing is a partnership with product marketing. So in enablement, we don’t own the messaging. We don’t own how we message our products. How we necessarily train the products as well into the market, but we’re a key partner in building some of those programs. And I have a learning developer who’s fantastic, her name is Ren Narciso, an absolutely amazing learning designer and developer. And she develops a lot of our product training, but she’s not an expert in each product, right? And I’m not an expert in the product. So, that partnership with product marketing is absolutely key. And we started working with them to leverage frameworks like PIC: problem, impact, root cause – different frameworks to really think about how we position our products.And they have done a fantastic job of developing materials and assets. Without that partnership, I think it’s very difficult for enablement to drive that value. I think we work in proxy in some instances, and we work to support those teams to help them craft a very valuable experience in Highspot.I think that’s probably why we’re seeing some of the adoption we are, it’s because people like the product market and really leaning in and being a very strong internal advocate for the use of Highspot. They even do things like building out like how-tos in Highspot. Here’s how you use digital rooms and good practices around it.So even though you think shouldn’t an admin be doing that? Actually, because those people are really building out these assets, they want to see them utilized effectively. So they’re leaning in and they’ve got the enthusiasm and the willingness to even push more tutorials and things out to sellers.SS: Now you touched on the importance of learning programs and the key role it plays in really driving that consistent execution. What are your best practices for designing effective learning programs and how do you leverage Highspot to help? AD: So I think you’ve got to go right down to what’s the intended outcome, right? When you’re looking at a learning sort of program, you’ve got to think about what are we trying to drive in terms of the learning outcomes. So our learning specialist, she really does look at that level when she’s developing these modules. She thinks okay, what are the intended learning outcomes?So there’s like a training docket for each one of the courses we build. And the key thing that’s in mind there is what are the key learning outcomes we’re looking to drive. And then we back into that, right? We make sure we’ve got the coverage on the resources. We make sure we’ve got the situational knowledge and the subject matter experts feeding that in.We try to drive things like interactivity and drive curiosity too. We just try to make it fun, and engaging, but we’re very purposeful and we don’t we don’t put it. A fun exercise in there just for the sake of it. We make sure that it’s driving towards a learning outcome. SS: Now, in addition to enabling your internal teams, I believe Turnitin also leverages Highspot to enable your customers through programs like customer onboarding. How is your company helping to ensure customers have a great onboarding experience and how is Highspot helping with this? AD: In terms of our customers who we sell to or we’re onboarding, when I started enablement, the enablement team was actually within the customer experience part of the organization. I reported to the chief customer officer but we moved into sales under the revenue, the chief revenue officer as when that new member of the exec team was hired. But we’ve still got quite strong connections with the CE org and we have fantastic members of that team in terms of who do the onboarding. What we find the onboarding team utilizes Highspot for, I know a number of the consultants use it to actually provide the glue to the onboarding experience and now they’re using the Digital Sales Rooms to put materials in there and send that to customers and have them go through the onboarding experience, and they can update the resources at the right point in time. Things like the help guides and such things, different resources, links to our help center, and presentations that they’ve delivered on the virtual sessions or in-person sessions if they’re doing in-person onboarding. So, a lot of the use we see with the onboarding team is more around that level. SS: I love that Turnitin is really on the cutting edge here because you guys are creating a consistent experience for your customers by really leveraging Highspot from the moment they’re a prospective customer all the way through their customer experience with you. Do you have any wins from that team that you can share? AD: I think what they’re saying, what they’ve said to me is when they said, “Look, we need this.” It was like, we get really good feedback on that. And it’s like a valuable resource. It was something they were unwilling to give up, it was providing real identifiable value. I think as we scale and as we deploy new products as well into the market, there has to be scalable ways of onboarding. And I know we’ve been leaning in really heavily on digital onboarding. So this provides another way to, to provide not just the training, but the resources that then help nurture and bring customers to a high level of initial deployment and success. What I’m keen to understand is how that’s going and looking into how can we even support that team more, and provide them with the connectivity back into Highspot. Now I know this is a really hot topic at the moment, cause I see on the community side, there’s lots of discussion around it, right? People are curious around, I wonder if this is something we can do. And I’ve covered a bit in a couple of those chats, but I think it is a really important area as we think about Digital Sales Rooms. Not just Digital Sales Rooms, but digital engagement spaces where actually post-sale, you can keep nurturing that customer. If we want to use the kind of HubSpot terminology to delight. We want to delight the customer, we want to bring them in and some of that experience they’ve had throughout the sales process, they can then continue to have into implementation. SS: Shifting back to impact, you have defined success metrics for each of your key initiatives. What are the core business metrics you focus on impacting through enablement? AD: Yeah, so it’s probably not really too dissimilar to most people, right? We have time to revenue, like what the average sales cycle looks like from net new, or to an upsell or a cross-sell initiative. The sort of that where that falls into sales cycle length, of course, what’s the content usage and performance looking like of the material we are putting in Highspot, is it getting utilized? We’re starting to really lean into that in a governance project that we’re working on. It’s a core docketed project in our PMO office, our project management office. And we’re looking at really figuring out where’s the content performing, where’s it not. Things like the closing ratio, things like sales process consistency too, that’s an issue in every sales organization. But then, and that kind of goes down with DRINTS and we’ve got training we’re developing and deploying on that, so we want to see that improve because we’re driving initiatives in Highspot using training programs in there to try and improve forecastability and things like that. So obviously you’ve got win-loss rate, I don’t think that’s a huge issue for us, what is more of an issue to us is it probably wasn’t an opportunity in the first place. The process wasn’t adhered to that cleverly and we’ve got to get more robust around that. So all the kind of call metrics you would expect, size of the deal, velocity through the stages, those types of things.So we have a lot of those already mapped out into our Tableau dashboard and we are tracking those. And what we did very roughly last year is when we deployed that dashboard, we looked at about an eight-month period, and we looked at just a simple metric of who has been through the training programs and completed them versus who hasn’t across a number of different product trainings and sales capability trainings, and how are those metrics aligning?And every single one of the KPIs was positively trending for the people who were completing the learning programs versus those who weren’t. Which is probably not surprising, but it was good to actually prove out and see in the data.  SS: Fantastic. Last question for you, Anthony. A big aspect of your enablement strategy is also that it serves as a roadmap for your future vision, which for Turnitin includes leveraging innovation like AI. How are you beginning to leverage AI in your strategy? And how do you plan to continue to evolve that? AD: Yeah, so this is a great question. So we’re currently just piloting and trying out the Meeting Intelligence tool at Highspot. So one of the reasons we wanted to do that, there’s a couple of reasons really.One, it’s to understand and try and figure out the behaviors, and are the capabilities getting put into practice and how consistent is that happening. But the other thing is around really trying to drive those coaching opportunities as well. But what we found is we had Gong actually in place a number of years ago, and we had about four and a half thousand recordings in that platform, sales meetings, four and a half thousand sales meetings. But when we looked at making a decision on whether we were going to continue with that tool or not, what we’ll find is nobody was reviewing them.Nobody was actually doing anything about them. There was no top-down push for people to do it, but also there was no bottom-up real kind of drive or even asks from teams to get that commentary and get that coaching and that reinforcement. So in terms of coaching, it’s a really big challenge. And when Highspot was looking at developing this tool, actually spoke with some of your product managers and tried to input into some of the early thinking around how you would implement a tool like this in Highspot.And this is one of the things I rose in that conversation and I raised in that conversation and what I was delighted to see is the introduction of an AI in terms of setting a rubric around what you expect in these types. So take a discovery meeting, for example, and be able to set a rubric around what a good discovery meeting looks like.What are the capabilities you expect? What are the outcomes you expect to see from that discovery meeting? How do you expect the rep to manage the meeting and be able to capture that? And then if you ingest that meeting at the Meeting Intelligence, I have an algorithm that can understand that and score that.So I was delighted to see that as part of the product when you initially launched it, and we’re really keen to test that out because we have this concept as one of our initiatives around quality assurance and being able to drop in on a quarterly basis lessons in Highspot on a pathway.Where sellers are asked to go and identify their top discovery meeting or identify a sample of discovery meetings. And we want those to be run through the algorithm, run through that rubric. And then we want managers to be able to get some quick feedback immediately and be able to try it again if they want and put another discovery meeting in there.Maybe, two weeks later, have another discovery meeting, try it out, and then get more feedback. But, then on a kind of summative basis, maybe once every quarter, once, twice a year maybe, be able to drop that in and across all of our capabilities. The key meetings for discovery and for vision, establishing a buy-in vision.We generally have other meetings to present and demo so how are the reps demoing? We want that to go through the system and be stored. And then we want managers hopefully to go in there, review the AI feedback, give their own feedback, give a grade, give a result. And build that as a quality assurance piece to the practice.So that’s how we’re hoping to leverage some of that technology, but we haven’t really got there yet. We’ve got the model in place, and we want to try it out and see where it gets to because what we know is it’s very difficult to engage managers in that coaching dialogue, but we feel if we can give them a bit of a crutch or a bit of a lead in with some suggestions and this is where to look, we think we can get there much easier.SS: Thank you, Anthony. I greatly appreciate your time and your insights. AD: No problem. Happy to share. SS: To our audience, thank you for listening to this episode of the Win Win Podcast. Be sure to tune in next time for more insights on how you can maximize enablement success with Highspot.

Piše: Miša Gams, bereta Ivan Lotrič in Eva Longyka Marušič. Pesnica Maja Miloševič Čustić, članica umetniške platforme Ignor, je bila s pesniškim prvencem Oder za gluhe leta 2018 nominirana za Jenkovo nagrado. V drugi zbirki Vidno polje, podobno kot že v prvencu, nadaljuje kritiko sodobne družbe in determinističnega pogleda na žensko telo ter jo poudarja z osebnoizpovednimi refleksijami iz otroštva. Zbirka obsega 36 pesmi, razdeljenih v tri sklope – Jezik, Maternica in Možgani. Omenjene dele telesa lahko tolmačimo v simbolnem smislu kot prostor za nastanek, artikulacijo in uresničitev idej, hkrati pa so ti trije strateški deli organizma zaznamovani z grožnjo kastracije in impotence – tako na individualni kot na družbeni ravni. Na začetku pesniške zbirke avtorica pod sklop Jezik nekoliko svareče zapiše: “Jezik ne zraste nazaj, če ga utrgaš”. Preplet med individualnim in družbenim ter med konkretnim in simbolnim lahko zaznamo na več mestih v zbirki. V prvem sklopu, ki se dotika predvsem spominov na najožje člane družine in zgodnje otroštvo, lahko v pesmi z naslovom Slepo oko preberemo primerjavo med kontinenti oziroma velikimi imperiji in telesom: “ … Evropa mi mežika. / Prst skrijem v žep / in ga mrcvarim. // Amerika odloča. / Odstranjujem kožo, ki visi. // Kitajska in Afrika / sta se zrastli v eno obliko. // Kožo shranim za kasneje, / rada se bašem / na svoj račun ...” Skozi drugi sklop Maternica se pesnica sprehaja kot odraščajoče dekle z zavedanjem, da ni “vsak otrok reklamni pano” in da je nehote postala “konflikt družinskega podnebja”. Ugotavlja, da je po burni puberteti nehala iskati “frnikole pozornosti”: “Tako sem postala / nasprotje ljudskih pesmi, / nehala plezati v naročja / izmišljenih mam / in iskati frnikole pozornosti.” V sedmih pesmih cikla z naslovom Ko hodim po brazgotinah, me zebe v noge, avtorica razčiščuje z materjo in opisuje mejna stanja zavesti. Panični napad opiše kot na pol budno stanje, “ko si razmakneš kosti” in “iz želodca potegneš otroštvo”, pri tem pa mami očita, da išče pozornost: “… Vsako turbulenco občutim / za očesnim ozadjem. // Nikoli nisva bili na eni poti. // Vlečem naju / po psihoterapevtskih kavčih, / si poskušam oprostiti // za popite revolucije, / ki se niso odvile po načrtu, // ne v našem stanovanju, ne v maternici. // Mama, / bo kdaj čas, / ko pozornost ne bo več padala / samo nate? // Ta vidljivost matere, / to vidno polje / je visoko / nad streho.” Najbolj zanimiv je tretji sklop z naslovom Možgani, v katerem Maja Miloševič Čustić še bolj podrobno locira nevralgične točke med hibami svojega in družbenega telesa. Poigrava se z družbenimi tabuji in stereotipi o ženski higieni, zdravju, poraščenosti, neješčosti oziroma preobjedenosti, ter o družinskem in družbenem nasilju in dilemah, ali naj bi, ko ga zaznamo, posredovali ali ne. V pesmi z naslovom Kaj me moti? ji ni po volji ležernost soseda, ki se ne odzove na nasilje v bloku: “Stečem na balkon, / sosed sprehaja psa, / glasovi z osmega nadstropja / postanejo nasilnejši. // vprašam ga: “Veste, kdo tam živi? / Treba bo poklicati policijo!” // “Jah, če vas moti,” odvrne, / pobere drek za svojim psom.” Pravo vprašanje, ki se pri tej pesmi poraja tako pesnici kot bralcu, ni: 'Ali me ta zadeva moti?', temveč: 'Ali je dovolj, da počistim pred lastnim pragom in se ne vmešavam, čeprav bi moje reakcije lahko preprečile najhujše?' Morda bi odgovor na to vprašanje našli v pesmi Spregledana, v kateri pesnica skozi zgodovinsko perspektivo odpre feministično obarvano polemiko: “To je naše vidno polje, / dame, občutek zradiranosti, // videti svet skozi bolno oko, / skozi špranje, / v katerih lomasti / strah zgodovine. // To vidno polje bo treba razširiti, / dopolniti smeri, / če ne gre, na silo odpreti / in včasih koga / kresniti po gobcu.” Naslednja nevralgična točka “možganskega” sklopa zbirke Vidno polje so načini, na katere ženske kritično in nesamozavestno motrijo svoje telo, ki je v njihovih očeh vedno preobilno, preveč poraščeno, premalo negovano, preveč utesnjeno z oprijetimi oblačili ali preveč zmrzljivo. V pesmi z naslovom Pesnic ne zebe? ugotavlja, da si s pesnjenjem ne more plačati ogrevanja, čeprav “delodajalci pravijo, da je kjut, da piše pesmi”, v pesmi Odgovorna pa se porogljivo vpraša: “Ali / je vljudno / iti / prvi dan / v službo / z drisko / in si peti / Pujso Pepo?” In namesto da bi si bile ženske zaveznice, hote ali nehote tekmujejo med sabo, čeprav bi bile složne lahko v družbi veliko močnejše. V pesmi z naslovom Telo o telesu piše: “Ženska proti / ženskemu telesu / je ženska sredi pragozda, / pobritega po zadnji modi. // Ta trup, / ta mesnata pregrada, / ta namen izuma fatalnosti, / ki mu je spodrsnilo.” Ne preseneča nas, da je osrednji prostor dogajanja v pesniški zbirki Vidno polje kuhinja kot prostor, ki ga družba primarno izroča v uporabo ženski, medtem ko pesnica v njem vidi prostor za neuspešen preizkus receptov in odlaganje “tovora” neznanih teles in družinskega priimka. Maja Miloševič Čustić v zbirki Vidno polje navaja citate Maruše Krese, Daneta Zajca, Johna Lennona in ameriške feministične pesnice Adrienne Rich, ki zapiše, da je “čas moškega spola”. Čeprav nam sproti polzi skozi prste, je treba prste stisniti v pest in požugati nazaj v svet, ki ceni optične prevare in spektakularne iluzije. Avtorica v knjigi ponuja številne variacije in permutacije bitk, ki se zrcalijo na naših telesih. Oziroma kot v spremni besedi piše Nataša Velikonja – gre za knjigo o “svetovnih geopolitikah in osebnih biopolitikah”, v osrčju te se nahaja slepa pega kot epicenter vidnega polja, ki omogoča počitek, kontemplacijo in samorefleksijo.

スズキとの話が始まったのがスイスに赴任中の１９９５の後半。1997に覚書が交わされ、開発が徐々に開始。スズキ側も浜松に派遣された八名近くのオペルチームを快く受け入れてくれました。ファミリーの経緯としては、次女のメラニーがミシガン大学に入学。それと同時に智恵子と真悟も一時アメリカに帰ったんですが、僕が正式にVLEに任命され、ドイツに戻ったのをきっかけに又一緒に住む事になりました。この時期の僕はドイツと日本を行ったり来たり。フランクフルトからプロジェクトを見ていました。今回はスズキの商品企画にいた日比さんのコメントも含めて現場での話を中心にエピソードを構成しました。

This episode is a quick summary of this new program covering key pieces from MoU to design to production preparedness. Family issues also entered big time as I transfered my work post from Switzerland to Germany to take on the responsibility as the VLE for the Agila program. As always, lots of ups and downs. But we now have a team set up in Japan; in fact secured a corner section on Suzuki's engineering floor. I bet that had never happened before.

Piše: Marija Švajncer Bere: Maja Moll Kakovostno, vsebinsko bogato in bralno vznemirljivo besedilo Tisto neustavljivo pisateljica imenuje pripoved. Da, pripoved, saj Metka Zupančič o marsičem res pripoveduje, toda poudariti velja, da je njeno pisanje še veliko več, in sicer srečavanje s samo sabo, grebenje vase, analiziranje odnosa z moškim, imenuje ga mislec, in nenehno vračanje v nekdanjo skupno državo, ki jo je zaznamovala, in tudi moškemu se je v njej marsikaj, morda celo preveč, primerilo. Posameznost se preveša v splošnost in družbenost, protagonistka si zastavlja nova in nova vprašanja in hoče priti resnici do dna. Njen ego je močan, nenehno govori o takšni ali drugačni energiji, rada bi, da bi v razmerju z moškim prevladal duh in bi se potrjeval njen intelekt, toda biti v zvezi nikakor ni preprosto, saj odnos vedno znova naleti na čeri in literarnima likoma se primeri, da nasedeta nanje. Ženska je kritična in brezkompromisna. Že res, da je tudi samokritična in neprizanesljiva do sebe, toda nadvse gorka je moškemu, s katerim ohranja zvezo na daljavo, moški pa jo v tujini, kjer živi ženska, tudi obišče. Nezadovoljna je z njegovo prehitro sprostitvijo strasti, odveč ji je, da moški igra vlogo žrtve in je poistoveten s trpljenjem. Izkušnjo, ki jo je doživel med vojno v Bosni, nosi kot breme, ki se ga nikakor ne more otresti. Protagonistka mu očita balkansko miselnost in se zgražala nad tem, da bi si jo rad podredil in jo obvladal. Toliko vsega mu meče pod nos in si noče priznati, da jo pravzaprav preveva dvojnost: rada bi doživela pristno ljubezen in blage občutke, hkrati pa si je samoto izbrala hote, saj v njej lahko nemoteno piše in je zato njen pravšnji življenjski slog. Zanjo sta poglavitna svoboda in lastni življenjski prostor, v katerega smejo vstopiti le redki. Vleče jo k moškemu in hkrati beži od njega. Oba si izrekata žaljivke, kot da bi se bala ljubezenskega razmerja, bližine in medsebojne povezanosti. Moški ji naravnost navrže, da si je kot ženske ne želi več, ona pa mu ne ostane dolžna in mu brez olepšav razgali njegov domnevno klavrni življenjski položaj. Izmenjata si vse preveč grdih in zlobnih besed, potem pa po vsej verjetnosti pogrešata drug drugega in se spet pogovarjata po telefonu. Gotovo obstajajo utemeljeni razlogi, da ne obmolkneta, če zapiše: »Nase se jezi, ker je metaforično padla na kolena pred moškim, ki mu je hotela prepustiti vso svojo moč. Nase se jezi, tako zelo, da je sploh doživela kaj takega, kar je včasih nevredno vsakega človeškega bitja, kar ponižuje in jemlje pogum, pa tudi, ker ni znala preprečiti, da bi kaj takega doživeli tudi drugi. Jezi se nase, da je človek. Pa je vseeno rada na zemlji, tako zelo, tako zelo.« Ženska živi v tujini in je predavateljica in voditeljica jogijske skupine. V predavalnici skuša mladim dekletom odpirati nova obzorja in jim s primeri iz svetovne literature razkrivati doživljanje žensk in njihov položaj v zgodovini. Ne da bi to načrtovala, pogosto analizira svojo življenjsko situacijo. Joga je zanjo čudežna možnost obvladovanja same sebe in pretakanja življenjske energije, harmonije med dušo in telesom, samospoznanja in zaupanja vase. Jogijska skupina posluša tudi glasbo, protagonistka igra na flavto in tedaj se jim primeri nekaj čudovitega. Zvoki jih popeljejo v čaroben svet, v katerem začutijo lepoto in božajočo uresničitev skritega hrepenenja. Tako ženska kot moški sta doživela poraze. V strokovnih krogih so izrazili dvom o njenem znanstvenem prispevku, pravzaprav neposrednem nasprotovanju stereotipom in predsodkom, moškemu pa so se v tujini postavili po robu študenti v predavalnici, ga očrnili in mu očitali arogantnost. Oba na svoji koži občutita vse tisto, kar s seboj prinaša tujstvo. Metka Zupančič je velik del svojega življenja predavateljsko in znanstvenoraziskovalno delovala na ameriških in kanadskih frankofonskih univerzah. Pripoved Tisto neustavljivo je zakladnica idej, individualno seciranje, svojevrstna psihološka študija, razčlenjevanje družbenih odnosov, položaja ženske ter razmerja med ženskami in moškimi in še marsikaj drugega. K odličnemu slogu in bralnim užitkom je pripomogla prevajalka Živa Čebulj. Avtorici veliko pomeni, da je prevajalka svoje delo opravila profesionalno in predano in skrbno prevedla dolge in zgoščene povedi. Pripoved je napisana kot neke vrste vodenje bralk in bralcev ter skoraj newageevski ali novodobni prispevek k osebni rasti: pomembna spoznanja so namreč zapisana v ležečem tisku, nekatere ugotovitve z velikimi črkami, pomensko poudarjene besede, na primer razum, z veliko začetnico, očitno ne gre tudi brez angleških vzkličnih povedi in podobnih tujejezičnih zapisov. Nazorno je poudarjeno tisto, kar naj bi bilo v pripovedi poglavitno. V dogajanju se ne zgodi nič prelomnega in vendar je besedilo tako estetsko dognano, vsebinsko vznemirljivo in privlačno, da ga zlepa ni mogoče odložiti iz rok, temveč ga je treba prebrati na mah ter se čez čas spet zatopiti vanj.

Postaja prepoznavno ime novega vala slovenske ženske atletike in tekov na dolge proge. Liza Šajn, ki med prehodom v člansko konkurenco suvereno zmaguje na vseh državnih prvenstvih ima visoko postavljene cilje. Vleče jo na dolge razdalje in najin pogovor se je razpletal o njenem poznem vstopu v atletiko, ameriški izkušnji, soočanju s poškodbo, treninških porotokolih in neverjetnih dosežkih zadnje sezone. Brez sponzorjev se ozira v prihodnost, na največja tekmovanja in onkraj državnih rekordov!

Celebrating the sounds of Dominica and Antigua & Barbuda, during a week where both nations celebrate their independence respectively. We also ramp with the energy from the start with a pressure play fitting with the vibe of this week's show. Tracklistings: 1 - Olatunji - Party People (NEW MUSIC) 2 - Iwer George - Jump Up Nah 3 - Lil' Bitts - Sweetest Mas (NEW MUSIC) *PRESSURE PLAY* 4 - High Intensity - Behind De Truck 5 - Tizzy - El-A-Kru - Mash Him Up 6 - Burning Flames - De Romans 7 - Burning Flames – Steel Band Power 8 - LSA ft Lyricsman - Who Fuh Call 9 - WCK - Our Culture 10 - First Serenade Band - More Jam 11 - Funana - So Cu Pe 12 - The Original Bouyon Pioneers & Triple Kay - Something To Talk About 13 - Wetty Beatz - Sye Pa Mele 14 - Skinny Fabulous, Machel Montano & Iwer George - Conch Shell 15 - Raw Redeem - Gimme Likkle Bouyon 16 - GBM Nutron - Practice 17 - Linky First – Rock & Come In 18 - Problem Child - Good Up Good Up 19 - Patrice Roberts - Like It Hot 20 - DJ Cheem x Lil Rick - Ba Ba Ben  21 – Mr Killa – Oil It 22 - Skarpyon - WineN 23 - Lyrikal - Thermostat 24 - Fay-Ann Lyons - Upgrade 25 - Tian Winter - Crash 26 – Drastic – Sugary Waistlin 27 - Taxik ft Claudette Peters - Flaunt It 28 - WCK - Our Night 29 - First Serenade Band - Zouk Love 30 - Kassav' - La'w Vlé 31 - Kassav – Siwo 32 - Nadia Batson - We Woulda 33 - K-Lee - Wings 34 - Young Lyrics - Before We Leave 35 - Laurena - First Touch 36 - V'ghn - Finally 37 - Blaxx - Mash Up 38 – Triniboi Joocie – Whinning Parish 39 - Voice - By Any Means  40 - Starsha - You Make Me 41 – Triple Kay - F.T.M 42 - Burning Flames - Kah-Yo 43 - Burning Flames - Aching 44 – Burning Flames – Kick Een 45 - Burning Flames - Buss A Nut 46 - Shelly – Local 47 – Asa Bantan – Souck Her 48 - SupaDan & AWIE Band Ft Mr. Fanatiq – Y Kill De Kulture 49 - Les Pedagogues - Carnavala 50 – WCK - Drum Song 51 - Burning Flames - Tout Moun Dance 52 - Burning Flames - Iron Band 53 - First Serenade Band - Junglest Posse 54 - Burning Flames - Swingin Engine 55 - WCK - Conch Shell 56 - WCK - Bouyon 57 - Asa Bantan - D Bouyon Hot 57 – Keks Mafia x Edday x Quan – Wo Tat Tat 58 – Empress x Soca Villian x Pyscho – Let It Rain 59 - Ricardo Drue x Ezzy Rattigan - Check-In 60 – Asa Bantan – Shake Your Pampalam 61 - Low Rider - Fish Dance 62 – Ricardo Drue – Tornado 63 - Edday - C'est comme ça 64 – Asa Bantan x Edday – Bounce It 65 - Edday - I do Have No Ticket  66 - Gamma - Santorini 67 – Medley Outro

Ještě před stavbou ropovodů přivážely tuhle surovinu do bratislavské rafinerie Apollo lodě po Dunaji. Vlečné čluny naplněné minerálními látkami byly uvázané na lanech až sto metrů za remorkérem, který překonával proud řeky. Mezi flotilou byly i tři výjimečné tankery s vlastním motorem. Zachoval se jediný. Nejstarší loď na Slovensku nese jméno Šturec a v bratislavském Zimním přístavu ho skupina bývalých lodníků přeměňuje na muzeum.

Ještě před stavbou ropovodů přivážely tuhle surovinu do bratislavské rafinerie Apollo lodě po Dunaji. Vlečné čluny naplněné minerálními látkami byly uvázané na lanech až sto metrů za remorkérem, který překonával proud řeky. Mezi flotilou byly i tři výjimečné tankery s vlastním motorem. Zachoval se jediný. Nejstarší loď na Slovensku nese jméno Šturec a v bratislavském Zimním přístavu ho skupina bývalých lodníků přeměňuje na muzeum.Všechny díly podcastu Zápisník zahraničních zpravodajů můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Robert Wyld grew up on a cattle and sheep property in the Western District of Victoria. After school, Robert attended Melbourne University, where he obtained a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours. He began his career working in the construction industry, working on the Crown Casino development before heading overseas for five years. Whilst in the UK, Robert worked on a new maintenance facility for Concord Aircraft and a new storage and research facility for the Natural History Museum. Returning to Melbourne, Roberts' enthusiasm for the construction industry waned and he started to tinker with software. He wrote the first iteration of what was to become KoolCollect. This was a data collection tool developed for the family farm, used to track fertility histories and treatments utilising the newly introduced NLIS tags. It quickly became apparent how powerful the data could be as an aid to making informed decisions in agriculture. This new frontier, together with the ever increasing pull from producers, is how Sapien Technology was founded.With new customers exploring how this technology could be adopted, as well as an industry grappling with a raft of adoption issues, problem solving became Sapien's focus. Robert's expertise in individual animal management combined with his practical background and genuine character have helped make Sapien Technology the “Go To” company for livestock software development. Clients range from corporate supply chains such as Coles Supermarkets, VLE saleyards, Whyalla Feedlot, MDH along with many other farm producers. Sapien's cloud database was the first of its kind in Australia. Sapien are constantly innovating and adopting, while working to encourage the widespread use of individual animal management and sharing the benefits it can bring to the entire agricultural industry.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Helen Wilson has worked in the digital community for over 20 years as a Digital development and Web designer, Learning Technologist, Digital Design FE Teacher and more recently in local authority digital content at Worcestershire County Council. Helen has Masters degree qualifications in Education, as well as Online and Distance Education. Her passion is focused on the experiences of the end-user and those everyday practitioners who create content. This could be documents created by local authority staff for residents or handouts and guides created by teachers for their learners on a VLE.She is the creator of SCULPT for Accessibility that came out of research she conducted at Worcestershire County Council. Her aim with SCULPT was to support a whole workforce approach to wider awareness of digital accessibility and digitally inclusive practice. Helen advises on accessibility best practices as well as develops and supports the development of inclusive web content.

Episode 9 of our ‘UCEM in conversation with…' series sees UCEM PR and social media manager, Andrew Belt, talk to Rolcor Property director, Lucy Gaitskell. Life isn't straightforward and throws many challenges at us. Studying part-time with us is a challenge which requires great self-motivation and self-discipline. When personal trauma is thrown into the mix as well, it becomes even harder and could persuade you to give up on your studies.During Lucy's time studying on our MBA Construction and Real Estate, she suffered the loss of a friend to bowel cancer and two miscarriages. Despite these challenges, she persevered and graduated with us last year. Earlier this year, she suffered a further miscarriage and, in this podcast, she discusses her study experience, what inspired her to complete the MBA and the success she has achieved with her company, Rolcor Property. If you are affected by any of the themes discussed in the podcast, you can access support through Samaritans: https://www.samaritans.org/.If you are a student of ours experiencing any trauma or difficulties and wish to speak to someone, please get in touch with our disability and welfare team via the VLE.

Erica Farmer joins us in the Habitz Podcast studio to talk through how to increase engagement in virtual learning. Everyone is on the online training and virtual learning train now, so it's important you get it right. But how do you get people's attention online? Erica has 20 years of experience in corporate learning and development with businesses such as British Gas, Virgin, LV and Specsavers so she knows the industry well. She's been delivering interactive, online learning sessions since 2014 so knows how to engage people and get them involved with their L&D.

Welcome dear readers! Hop in into this weeks ride with the VLE. We talking about jerking off, or not? We also explain what a spirit box is, curious? Strap in bbs! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thevenuslucifereffect/support

Skoraj vsak dan novi odloki in predpisi, ki jim že težko sledimo. Potem ko je vlada pred dnevi odločila, da ruta in šal nista zadostna zaščita, je sinoči sprejela odločitev, da maska na odprtih javnih krajih od jutri ni več obvezna, če je mogoče vzdrževati razdaljo dveh metrov. Pomembnejša sproščanja pa začenjajo veljati z današnjim dnem. Odpirajo se številne trgovine in storitve, bolj obsežno v štirih epidemiološko varnejših regijah. Zagnal se je tudi javni potniški promet. Ostale teme: - Vlečnice, sedežnice in gondole s po le enim smučarjem, izjeme člani istega gospodinjstva - Do konca leta naj bi dobili 5 tisoč odmerkov cepiva proti covidu-19 - Kakšne bodo posledice razglasitve gospodarskih con Hrvaške in Italije? - Biden po elektorski potrditvi za predsednika: Zmagala je demokracija!

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vLe canton de Vaud a pris des décisions defermeture pour de nombreus secteurs… mais les commerces restent ouverts

Hosť: Ing. Jozef Kožár (prezident Zamestnávateľského zväzu geodézie a kartografie, riaditeľ spoločnosti Geokod, ktorá sa okrem iného špecializuje na pozemkové úpravy) Rozdrobenosť pôdy na Slovensku je obrovská! „Vlečie sa to“ s nami stáročia. Pozemky sa dedia, „kúskujú“ medzi množstvo potomkov. Nikto už ani poriadne nevie, kto, aký kus zeme, vlastní. Politici nám roky sľubujú pozemkové úpravy. Rázna komasácia slovenskej krajiny sa nekoná. Ako reišiť pozemky v tejto situácií? Moderuje: Petra Strižková. Kontakty pripravuje RTVS - Slovenský rozhlas, Rádio Slovensko, SRo1.

This week on I Wish I Knew EDU, I’m talking to Noémie Bergeron @MmeBergeno about being a genius, being humble, re-creating Fantasia, PokemonGo, working for the MoE, the VLE and wanting to learn everything.

In this episode we're live from the University of Huddersfield. We discover how VLE technology is transforming student engagement for academics at the University of Huddersfield.Give students and staff 24/7 access to learning resourcesSupport 'flipped classroom' teachingBoost student satisfaction with award featuresHelp teachers track understanding and adjust contact time MEET THE PANEL Sophie McGownSophie has been at D2L for over 4 years, after teaching at a variety of schools across the world. Now a Senior Customer Success Manger, she utilizes her teaching experience to work with a number of customers across the UK & Ireland, bringing a creative flair for encouraging adoption and engagement with Brightspace.Sarah SwiftSarah is a Lecturer and joined the University of Huddersfield in 2014. Sarah is a Chartered Public Finance Accountant with over fifteen years of practical experience in Local Government Finance. She has experience of various financial functions including management accounts, financial accounts, treasury management and internal audit.Kay SmithKay joined The Business School as a Senior Lecturer in 2007, having previously spent 12 years teaching and managing on a variety of Higher Education programmes in a Further Education College. This included being the course leader for a MBA programme and the deputy head of department responsible for teaching and learning.Sue FolleySue is an Academic Developer at the University of Huddersfield, with a remit to support the pedagogic development of staff with the use of digital technologies. Her role involves training staff and contributing to the University’s strategic developments in this area. She has worked in Higher Education for the last 20 years.John AllportJohn is Professor of Automotive Engineering at the University of Huddersfield. As part of the role, John is Director of the Turbocharger Research Institute at the University. The Institute was established to conduct research and develop training to support companies at the forefront of this world leading technology.cast

Lažje in boljše je, če so češnje že izkoščičene in so bile v redu zmrznjene - posamezno in nato shranjene v vrečki. Vlečeno testo najprej namažemo s skutimin nadevom ter potresemo zamrznjene češnje. Takoj zavijemo, sicer se bo začelo pacati. Preložimo na namazan pekač, na vrhu namažemo s kislo smetano in damo v pečico. Zamrznjene češnje lahko uporabimo tudi pri piti, ki jo naredimo z jabolk in češenj. Sestra Nikolina je povedala, kako lahko zavitek zamrzneno ...

In this episode from Education Technology and University Business, in conjunction with the University of Huddersfield, the University of Suffolk, and D2L, find out what effect VLEs have had on their institutions and the scope for impact on the HE sector as a whole. You'll discover...• The role of VLE’s in delivering strategic success• How we utilised a VLE to move from an online passive content repository to a truly collaborative, interactive online learning experience.• How we used a VLE to reduce administration and implement learning analytics to improve retention and attainment• The value of modern VLE technology in delivering apprenticeships

Come join us on the episode of the VLE with the return special guest Laura Wrong as we talk about sexuality, kinks, magic, and religion. Plus find out what we think about butts! Strap in and strap on! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thevenuslucifereffect/support

In this second podcast on remote teaching, four lecturers from the University of Liverpool continue to discuss remote teaching during the #COVID pandemic, including student engagement, the pedagogical considerations to remote teaching, their advice and some of their highlights. Hosted by Dr Tunde Varga-Atkins and produced by Chris Loxham, Centre for Innovation in Education, University of Liverpool. (Note: VITAL is the University’s VLE.) Captions available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHDEWIZynbU If you require a full transcription please email cie-drt@liverpool.ac.uk

On this episode of the VLE we are joined by Special Guest Angelina all the way from Germany. (Virtually connected of course!) Join us as we talk about art and maybe some farts and find out how to make lemons out of lemons! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thevenuslucifereffect/support

In this latest podcast, Graham talks about the “Simon Thompson effect” on share prices, Northamber (NAR), and the astonishing RNS from Tandem Group (TND), where Graham is a shareholder. 6:45 – Northamber (NAR) 17:00 – Tandem (TND) Please note the important disclaimer which applies to all of the content on this website, positioned just below…

In this episode, we talk to Claire Fennell, a Senior Instructional Designer at University College Cork in Ireland, about how to blend classroom teaching with online learning in your virtual learning environment (VLE). As we approach a new academic year, it's a great opportunity to think about how you can build, update or redesign a site in your VLE to integrate aspects of online learning into your classroom teaching. Claire introduces the ADDIE model of instructional design and a range of interactive tools, such as Sway, Roojoom, Google Forms and Screencast-o-matic, which can help to enhance teaching and learning in both online and offline spaces. Check out this episode for tons of useful tips, tools and strategies for creating effective blended learning activities for your learners. Links: Claire Fennell - Twitter: @clairefennel (https://twitter.com/clairefennell) - Profile at University College Cork (https://www.ucc.ie/en/teachlearn/people/clairefennell/) University College Cork Instructional Design - University College Cork Instructional Design website (http://instructionaldesign.ucc.ie/) - Twitter: @id_ucc (https://twitter.com/id_ucc) Tools - Microsoft Sway (https://sway.com/) - Roojoom (https://www.roojoom.com/) - GSuite for Education (https://edu.google.com/) - Google Forms (https://www.google.co.uk/forms/about/) - Google Docs (https://www.google.com/docs/about/) - Microsoft Forms (https://forms.office.com/) - Office 365 (https://www.office.com/) - Screencastify (https://www.screencastify.com/) - Screencast-o-matic (https://screencast-o-matic.com/) - Zoom (https://zoom.us/)

Chuck Severance, University of Michigan, looks at Learning Management Systems and what comes next. This presentation gives an overview of the the open source project Tsugi project and applications of the Tsugi software in building a distributed approach to teaching and learning tools and content. It is not sufficient to simply make a bunch of small web-hosted things and claim we have 'implemented' the Next Generation Digital Learning Environments (NGDLE). We must be able to coherently search, find, re-construct and re-combine those 'small pieces' in a way that allows teaching and learning to happen. To do this, each of the learning application and content providers must master detailed interoperability standards to allow us 'mash up' and bring those distributed and disparate elements back together. While there has been much said about the ultimate shape and structure of the NGDLE, and there are many current and emerging interoperability standards, there is little effort to build and train providers with usable technology that will empower thousands or hundreds of thousands of people to create and share applications and content that will populate the new learning ecosystem. In effect, we need to build the educational equivalent of the Apple App Store. Except that it needs to be open and extensible and not depend on a single vendor intent on maximizing shareholder value. This presentation will show how the Tsugi project is doing research into how this works in actual practice. Tsugi is a 100 per cent open source production-ready application and content hosting system that is simple enough to use to allow interoperable and pluggable learning applications or learning content to be built, hosted, deployed and shared by individuals or various-sized organizations. Charles is a Clinical Associate Professor and teaches in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. He is the Chair of the Sakai Project Management Committee (PMC). Previously he was the Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation and the Chief Architect of the Sakai Project and worked with the IMS Global Learning Consortium promoting and developing standards for teaching and learning technology.

Come to The Edtech Podcast Launch Party! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-edtech-podcast-launch-party-tickets-27122094916  What's in this episode? Ron Reed, Exec Producer, SxSw Edu on the Microsoft/Mac Book conundrum when you have Bill Gates speaking at your event (3:28) Interview with former NYC public school teacher Monica Burns @classtechtips of classtechtips.com on placing the task before the app and promoting deeper learning with technology. Engaging methods and tools for using scannable technologies like virtual reality, QR codes and augmented reality within the classroom in an accessible way ‘beyond the headset.' What are the opportunities and risks of an open educational resources policy? Content creation tools which demonstrate student understanding Monica's journey from chalk boards and overhead projectors to training on tech How to engage in ‘disruptive education' whilst also ‘respecting the process' and time needed for change to happen; which models are modernising education? Extra reading and resources:  Monica's Book on Scannable Technologies: http://buff.ly/2bw9tNa Virtual Reality: Nearpod: https://nearpod.com/nearpod-vr Google Cardboard: https://vr.google.com/cardboard/ Lit World: http://www.litworld.org/wrad/ ISTE: http://www.iste.org/ Apple Distinguished Educator: http://www.apple.com/education/apple-distinguished-educator/ Edutopia: https://www.edutopia.org/users/monica-burns Vote for The Edtech Podcast sessions at SxSw Edu! panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/68776 and panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/68856 UK Teachers: Check out NESTA's teacher innovation workshop (they want teachers to give feedback) here: http://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/teachers-we-need-you Visit www.edtechnology.co.uk to sign up for the free fortnightly e-newsletter for the latest news and innovations in EdTech, featuring The Edtech Podcast Have a good week everyone!           

What's featured in this episode?  Loughborough University topped the The Times Higher Education student satisfaction survey in 2016, at a time time when education in the East Midlands has received a grilling by Sir Michael Wilshaw. This episode features:  Getting the user-experience right for students  How universities can learn from the challenges in the content publishing sector  Reclaiming the word ‘library' as learning spaces evolve  24/7 learning accessibility vs. work/life balance  Academic investment in light of free resources like Google Scholar  How social media is used in the entire research process and what this means for peer-review  Loughborough's new campus in London Tags: UX, Times Higher Education, Students, University, Higher Education, Library, Learning Spaces, Academia, Academics, Google Scholar, LTHEchat, ALT, Peer-review, VLE, Virtual Learning Environments, Start-ups, Content Publishing, Ethnography Reading and resources:  http://www.lboro.ac.uk https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/student-experience-survey-2016-results  http://uki.blackboard.com https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ofsted-issues-warning-about-education-in-the-east-midlands  https://scholar.google.co.uk http://davecormier.com/edblog/

What's featured in this episode?  How to connect young people with what's happening in industry How to get teachers & students on board with technology within schools  How to sense test tech innovation within a school environment  How to overcome your fear as an educator and build confidence  How to inspire students to go far in the world of technology  How to overcome diversity issues within technology  How to keep up with students' use of technology How to ask for help Where does Urban Teacher get his inspiration from?  How to use your own struggles as inspiration for betterment  Is profit seeking within Edtech at risk of undermining the benefits of Edtech?  How to keep teacher training relevant in a fast paced world  How will silo-isation of the internet effect the creativity of education?  Tags: UKedchat, SLTchat, LTEHEchat, PodcastEdu, Podchat, Urbanteachers, Diversity, Computer Science, ICT, Microsoft, Techcity,  upskilling, VLE, virtual learning environment, vlogs, youtube, innovation, TLA, coding, Code Academy, Mentoring, digital business academy, startups, prezi, bbc: microbit, IOT, gamification, pedagogy, SxSw Edu, higher education, google classroom, microsoft 365, show my homework, mastery, #GoogleEdu #GAFE #MIEExpert, Dalston Reading and resources:  http://urbanteacher.co.uk  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8b-unRVRbkS3OBOWHtItIA https://twitter.com/urban_teacher  http://www.sydenhamhighschool.gdst.net  http://www.digitalbusinessacademyuk.com/home  https://www.codecademy.com  https://www.microbit.co.uk  http://sxswedu.com  https://www.google.com/edu/  https://products.office.com/en-gb/academic/compare-office-365-education-plans  https://showmyhomework.co.uk   

Invités : Le groupe Cheza Playlist du 11 février CHEZA Ft Fiston F- Makelele Sarkodie ft. Castro - Adonai MAGASCO- Wule Bang Bang H-Vibes Featuring Dee End & Mr. Jay Fo - Di'm Kibo'w Vle'l Remix  

Invités : Le groupe Cheza Playlist du 11 février CHEZA Ft Fiston F- Makelele Sarkodie ft. Castro - Adonai MAGASCO- Wule Bang Bang H-Vibes Featuring Dee End & Mr. Jay Fo - Di'm Kibo'w Vle'l Remix  

UP FOR DISCUSSION:- First impressions: Mazda MX-5 Miata and Lexus RC.- Remembering Jim Harbour.- Sergio Marchionne fires Ferrari Chief, Luca di Montezemolo.SPECIAL GUEST: Russ Ruedisueli, VLE and Head of Engineering at SRT.- What's the REAL horsepower rating on the Dodge Challenger Hellcat? Where else is this engine going?All that and much more with John McElroy, Autoline.tv; Gary Vasilash, Automotive Design and Production; Chris Paukert, Autoblog.com.

Melissa Highton, University of Oxford, presents the findings of the DIGE Project which investigated the use of technology by students from Oxford.

Melissa Highton, University of Oxford, presents the findings of the DIGE Project which investigated the use of technology by students from Oxford.

Dr Adrian Stokes explains how the systematic use of Weblearn, the university's VLE, has led to a sustainable and efficient framework for blended learning.

A rambling discussion about lots of things including VLE migration, Google Nexus One and then some more stuff.... With Janina Dewitz and James Clay This is the seventy sixth e-Learning Stuff Podcast, Kerching! Shownotes Geekpub Photo source

James talks with Rob Whitehouse about how he uses ILT and the VLE to support teaching and learning. This is the seventy third e-Learning Stuff Podcast, Has he got a Sinclair C5?

Janina Dewitz and David Sugden discuss why James Clay is so annoying... With James Clay, David Sugden and Janina Dewitz. This is the seventieth e-Learning Stuff Podcast, James Clay is so annoying... Shownotes The article that started it all, Focus on the technology or not? David's response, e-Learning Context. Janina's reply, Gah! Focus on Training. Wired on their fears on the iPad in education. Martin Bean at ALT-C 2009 on the scepticism and resistance to innovation that has always been with us when new technologies are introduced into education. No more Flip'ping Pilots. Using the VLE more

Mighty Clouds of JoySince his appearance in last week's Super Bowl commercial, many have automatically linked Chrysler with the gritty music of the artist Eminem. And while the soundtrack of "Lose Yourself" worked as a reflection of Detroit's streets, the song that may in fact be more relevant to the company today has its roots in 1971.Given where Chrysler was just 20 months ago, the music that seems to best capture the emotions coming out of its Auburn Hills headquarters is the 40-year-old pop tune "Mighty Clouds of Joy." As the company continues to introduce its well-reviewed new or significantly refreshed products -- vehicles that they were working on throughout those dark days of bankruptcy -- lines from the song like "those old storm clouds are slowly drifting by" take on a whole new meaning. Just ask some of those who were there...which is exactly what John McElroy does in this week's edition of Autoline.Joining John on an all-Chrysler panel are three company veterans who, like many, witnessed the bad times but kept pushing ahead because of the product. Joe Dehner, the head of Dodge Design, Chris Barman, the VLE of E-Segment vehicles and Klaus Busse the head of Interior Design, all talk with John about Chrysler -- the company, its people but most importantly its new product -- and where they all go from here.

Mighty Clouds of Joy Since his appearance in last week's Super Bowl commercial, many have automatically linked Chrysler with the gritty music of the artist Eminem. And while the soundtrack of "Lose Yourself" worked as a reflection of Detroit's streets, the song that may in fact be more relevant to the company today has its roots in 1971. Given where Chrysler was just 20 months ago, the music that seems to best capture the emotions coming out of its Auburn Hills headquarters is the 40-year-old pop tune "Mighty Clouds of Joy." As the company continues to introduce its well-reviewed new or significantly refreshed products -- vehicles that they were working on throughout those dark days of bankruptcy -- lines from the song like "those old storm clouds are slowly drifting by" take on a whole new meaning. Just ask some of those who were there...which is exactly what John McElroy does in this week's edition of Autoline. Joining John on an all-Chrysler panel are three company veterans who, like many, witnessed the bad times but kept pushing ahead because of the product. Joe Dehner, the head of Dodge Design, Chris Barman, the VLE of E-Segment vehicles and Klaus Busse the head of Interior Design, all talk with John about Chrysler -- the company, its people but most importantly its new product -- and where they all go from here.

A chat with Zak Mensah of JISC Digtial Media about their ten new advice documents. With James Clay and Zak Mensah. This is the sixty first e-Learning Stuff Podcast, A conversation with Zak. Shownotes #1 Introduction to e-Learning #2 Designing Learning Experiences #3 Common Methods for Viewing, Using and Producing Digital Media Resources #4 Considering the delivery of digital media online #5 Organising Digital Media Content in a VLE #6 Mobile Learning for Education #7 Providing Live Support to your Community over the Web #8 Audio Feedback #9 Telling it like it is - a how-to guide on creating audio feedback #10 Using Multimedia in a PDF

How can you more effectively use the VLE to enhance and enrich learning? How do you engage staff to ensure that they use the full functionality of the VLE? What models can you use to demonstrate to staff how they can progress their use of the VLE? James, David, Mick and Ron discuss how the VLE can be used, how to use it more effectively and provide tips and guidance on engaging staff to use it. With James Clay, Mick Mullane, David Sugden and Ron Mitchell. This is the fifty first e-Learning Stuff Podcast, Engaging with the VLE Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes Shownotes James' Five Stage VLE Model David's Four Stage VLE Model Increasing staff engagement with the VLE From Repository to Interactivity - another VLE model from Louise Jakobsen Xerte EasyVoter for Moodle 100 ways to use a VLE

Run by Andrew Middleton, debating the motion that 'Digital Audio's potential to Further and Higher Education is as a ubiquitous and flexible medium that can be adapted by any academic to enrich the learner experience. This was held after a discussion on the VLE in 5 years time....

It's alive... the VLE it's alive... Thoughts, ideas and comments from James Clay on why and how practitioners should be using the VLE to enhance and enrich the learners' experience. With James Clay. This is the fortieth e-Learning Stuff Podcast, The VLE Lives Shownotes 100 ways to use a VLE a five stage plan for using a VLE The VLE is Dead Picture source.

James Clay in conversation with Alan Graham. This is the thirty second e-Learning Stuff Podcast, In conversation. Alan Graham in conversation with James Clay. Alan talks about how he is using mobile devices and the college VLE. As well as some other stuff.

The VLE is Dead! A recording of the symposium run at ALT-C 2009 in which Steve Wheeler, Graham Attwell, James Clay and Nick Sharratt, with Josie Fraser in the Chair; discuss the if and how we should be using VLEs to enhance and enrich learning. This is the twenty eighth e-Learning Stuff Podcast, The VLE is Dead. Shownotes ALT-C 2009 Conference The VLE is Dead Watch the video recording of the debate (instead of listening to the audio). The future success of e-learning depends on appropriate selection of tools and services. This symposium will propose that the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) as an institutional tool is dead, no more, defunct, expired. The first panel member, Steve Wheeler, will argue that many VLEs are not fit for purpose, and masquerade as solutions for the management of online learning. Some are little more than glorified e-mail systems. They will argue that VLEs provide a negative experience for learners. The second member of the panel, Graham Attwell, believes that the VLE is dead and that the Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is the solution to the needs of diverse learners. PLEs provide opportunities for learners, offering users the ability to develop their own spaces in which to reflect on their learning. The third panel member, James Clay, however, believes that the VLE is not yet dead as a concept, but can be the starting point of a journey for many learners. Creating an online environment involving multiple tools that provides for an enhanced experience for learners can involve a VLE as a hub or centre. The fourth panel member, Nick Sharratt, argues for the concept of the institutional VLE as essentially sound. VLEs provide a stable, reliable, self-contained and safe environment in which all teaching and learning activities can be conducted. It provides the best environment for the variety of learners within institutions. The session was chaired by Josie Fraser. Photo source

Kris Moodley talks about how he has used the VLE to enhance the submission of assessments and a tablet PC and stylus to speed up and improve his marking process.

So is the VLE the future for e-learning, the past or just a temporary solution? Are they fit for purpose or a compromise? What about the learners? This is the ninth e-Learning Stuff Podcast, The VLE Debate. In this show, James is joined by Steve Wheeler, Rob Englebright, Dave Foord and David Sugden. This show is a result of two blog posts one by Steve Wheeler and one by James Clay. Shownotes * Steve Wheeler's Monkey Business blog post which started off this whole debate. Since this was recorded Steve has written a follow up post: The Emperor's new clothes? * James Clay's response “A bad workman always blames his tools”.