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Theories for the digital age: Self regulated learning

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Self regulation of learning is thought to be a characteristic of individual students (Beishuizen, 2008) but increasingly can be contextualised within social learning environments. 2008) Does a community of learners foster self-regulated learning? 2008) Self-Regulated Learning in Communities. 2000) Informal Workplace Learning.

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Writes of passage

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Indeed, according to Crystal, people can become adept at playing the language game, inventing many new words and idioms, and devising entirely new ways of communicating through text (Crystal, 2008). 2008) Txting: The gr8 db8. 2018) Laptop versus Longhand Note Taking in a Professional Doctorate Course. References Crystal, D.

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See-through learning

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Some platforms are better than others of course, but generally many institutional managed learning environments suffer from the same problem - opacity. In 2008, in partnership with Peter John, I published a book called 'The Digital Classroom'. 2008) The Digital Classroom: Harnessing Technology for the Future. and Wheeler, S.

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Five things

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Appropriate training, support services and dialogue will invariably overcome many of these issues (John and Wheeler, 2008). We can of course find out through trial and error, but more preferably, we can evaluate through thorough and systematic research where new technologies are tested out in authentic situations. References John, P.

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

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By 2006 several social networking sites were enjoying surges in popularity, including MySpace, Bebo and of course, Facebook. I then began also to experiment with wikis as alternatives to Learning Management Systems in teacher education around 2006-2008. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched. Unported License.

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The survival of Higher Education (5): Recommendations

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Whatever their views, the teachers who are most likely to be successful will be those who embed new technologies into their courses, and who adopt a role that us supportive of flexible and mobile learning. Technology will not replace teachers, but teachers who adopt new technologies will probably replace those who don''t. Unported License.

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The survival of higher education (1): Changing roles

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I pointed out that one of the key technologies for the future would be the World Wide Web (I was of course unaware at the time just how vital it would become) and that managed (virtual) learning environments would become a useful means of organising and supporting online learning for large groups of distributed learners. and Moonen, J.

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