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The survival of Higher Education (4): 5 key objectives

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This is a continuation of my short series on the future of higher education, and builds on yesterday''s blog post on why Social Web tools are useful to support student learning. We start with the question.how will technology help to shape the future of Higher Education? Exeter: Learning Matters. and Wheeler, S. Unported License.

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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. Moreover, there is a sense that personal technologies encourage learners to be self-determined in their approach to education. Delfino, M.,

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

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Finally, I will suggest that there are five key objectives to achieve if universities are to achieve success in the use of learning technologies in the future. A Social Web that supports learning Staff at the University of Plymouth have been using Web 2.0 Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. London: Sage.

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Five things

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It is increasingly apparent that learning technology and digital communication will play a key role in the shaping of future higher education. For digital technologies to become as successful in education as ‘paper and pencil’, I believe that five strategies will need to be put into place: 1. Exeter: Learning Matters.

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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.

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The survival of higher education (1): Changing roles

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A Tale of Two Keynotes We live in tumultuous times where change is constant and disruptive and where technologies are increasingly pervasive throughout society. Such change and disruption has been in the background of my thinking about learning technology for the past decade. E-Learning Groups and Communities.

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Good morning Barcelona!! Jim Groom at #EDEN15

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Among other things, Jim Groom is Director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies and adjunct professor at the University of Mary Washington, USA. He is nicknamed the 'Reverend' (oh the irony), and is a purveyor of American pop culture, experimental educational technology and out-of-left-field philosophy.

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