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Theories for the digital age: Self regulated learning

Learning with e's

Self regulation of learning is thought to be a characteristic of individual students (Beishuizen, 2008) but increasingly can be contextualised within social learning environments. This is an excerpt from a forthcoming publication entitled: Personal Technologies in Education: Issues, Theories and Debates] References Beishuizen, J.

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Theories for the digital age: Postmodern perspectives

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Consumers of Web based content tend to search randomly and nomadically, due to the multi-layered, multi-directional nature of hyperlinked media and this aligns neatly with some post modern theory. The community decides what is important to learn, so in effect, the community becomes the curriculum (Cormier, 2008). Unported License.

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Theories for the digital age: The digital natives discourse

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One of the more controversial theories of the digital age is the claim that technology is changing (or rewiring) our brains (Greenfield, 2009) whilst some also claim that prolonged use of the Web is detrimental to human intellectual development (Carr, 2010). There are, inevitably, objections to the Digital Natives position.

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Daily Bookmarks 09/13/2008

Experiencing eLearning

TravelinEdMan: The Price of an 8 Pack of Learning Theory Lectures? Set of 8 video lectures on learning theories from Curt Bonk at IU. The post says these can be used by any instructor teaching a course, although there isn’t a specific CC license on them. Just a Lot of Bonk! tags: learningtheories , video , education.

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Daily Bookmarks 05/30/2008

Experiencing eLearning

AU Press - The Theory and Practice of Online Learning (second edition). of this book, available online under a CC-NC license. tags: e-learning , creativecommons , theory , technology , quality , teaching. Intended primarily for actors learning to imitate an accent, but could have other educational uses too.

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Theories for the digital age: The digital natives discourse

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One of the more controversial theories of the digital age is the claim that technology is changing (or rewiring) our brains (Greenfield, 2009) whilst some also claim that prolonged use of the Web is detrimental to human intellectual development (Carr, 2010). There are, inevitably, objections to the Digital Natives position.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: My Predictions for 2008

Learning Visions

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 My Predictions for 2008 I wont deign to make grandiose predictions about the state of eLearning in the year 2008 as many have already done. Posted by Cammy Bean at 11:06 AM Labels: 2008 , Learning Circuits 4comments: Christine Martell said. United States License. He is already dreading it.