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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING OCTOBER 29, 2009 A Learning Technologist in 2009 in Higher Education So being a Learning Technologist in Higher Education in 2009 is all about challenging the status quo. I've just read an interesting post which has helped move my thinking on a bit. It's " Training" faculty to teach online by Lisa Lane and is about the nature of the usual offerings of "training" on teaching online. She distinguishes between Technical training, which is the mechanics of how to work and navigate a particular tool/artefact, and professional development for effective online teaching where the pedagogies behind them are explored. Neither of these is true. Where do you start? | LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING OCTOBER 26, 2009 Didactic Teachers are expendable The title of this post doesn't really tell the whole story, but I'm hooked on trying to have catchy, short titles (maybe twitter is effecting me too much). After reading Free Online Higher Education Courses? I reflected on the whole principle of OER. In the posting, Robert Hughes argues that watching a lecture isn't as good as taking the course (in a critique of another article ). This is true where the course is well run. But what about a large lecture where the didactic rules. Wouldn't watching a video or listening to an audio in the comfort of your own home be just as good. don't want this. | | | | | |
| LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING SEPTEMBER 26, 2009  Review of Traxler’s ‘Students and Mobile Devices’ Originally published on the Educational Technology Journal I heard that the best ALT (Association of Learning Technology, UK) paper this year was Students and Mobile Devices: Choosing Which Dream by John Traxler so I thought I’d review it. Generally, it was very interesting and gives a good overview of the implications mobile devices have for education. and there were points with which I disagree. | LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING NOVEMBER 30, 2009 Motivation, Self-efficacy and Training I've been reflecting recently on motivation for educators to use Learning Technologies. It's a topic that should be close to the heart of any learning technologist because it defines our success or lack of success. In higher education, for various reasons already discussed in this blog, we have an LMS content dumping situation. Self-efficacy is closely linked to this. Wikipedia describes it as: "It is a belief that one has the capabilities to execute the courses of actions required to manage prospective situations." Apart from being difficult to say, why is this important? Why was it good? | LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING NOVEMBER 9, 2009 Have belief in Learning Technologies One of the questions I've been asking myself recently is Why am I in Learning Technology ? Did I fall into it and just run with it? Is it simply a job that I don't really believe in or care about? tell myself and others that it's because I believe Learning Technologies provide something positive for education. Not just for themselves but positive in the ways of learning that they bring to the attention of education, make visible and demonstrate are viable and sometimes better than the didactic malaise education finds itself in. Simply put, I don't. But I believe it to be true. | LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING NOVEMBER 1, 2009 Personal Cyberinfrastructure I read the article A Personal Cyberinfrastructure with interest. Gardner Campbell pulls no punches when he advocates for personal cyberinfrastrucure. He says: "Suppose that when students matriculate, they are assigned their own web servers — not 1GB folders in the institution's web space but honest-to-goodness virtualized web servers of the kind available for $7.99 a month from a variety of hosting services." Fascinating and important innovations would emerge as students are able to shape their own cognition, learning, expression, and reflection in a digital age, in a digital medium. | | | | | | | |
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LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2009 eLearning Learning, Blogging and Reflection
I've joined the eLearningLearning stable run by Tony Karrer. Thanks again for the invite Tony! read his blog and was aware of the growing aggregation resource of Learning Technology opinion within eLearningLearning so it seems like a good idea to become part of it. don't actual use the eLearningLearning site as my blog source (I have a carefully put together google reader list), but I can see the attraction of subscribing to this one feed to get the the best Learning Technology opinion. I'm pretty sure it won't. always write as if I'm talking to someone so I'll just continue in that vein. MORE >> -
LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2009 Social Media - Negativity
I am often surprised of the way some will talk about social media. Some of the comments quoted on Reflections on Students and Social Media: Consuming the Consumed seem to think of it as some sort of monster devouring and deviling everything in it's path. force for evil destroying all that is natural and innocent. I'm exaggerating of course but I think this misses the point. People use social media because THEY WANT TO; because it's a good way of communicating. Clearly, a better and easier than that which existed before. Who says we are? Well this is time spent COMMUNICATING. MORE >> -
LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2009 Learning Technologies - Disrupting Teaching and Learning
Sessums comments in Reflections on Transforming Teaching and Learning ring true with me. only disruptive innovation—adopting digital learning wholesale—will change education. This disruption is most likely to emerge in places where traditional ways of teaching are outright failing; over time." Where I have been able to get academic use of Learning Technology to influence their teaching and learning in my workplace it's been where we are starting from scratch or addressing perceived "failure" - usually low recruitment. I've reflected on this before in Challenging didactic teaching. MORE >> -
LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2009 Use Social Media - Fulfil your Destiny!
There are some interesting ideas in the slideshow "Getting Real About Enterprise 2.0". By far the most interesting for me is slide 8: "The social web emerged because it reflects basic HUMAN NEEDS." I've been saying for a while something a bit like this - something like humans are naturally social and we use social media because we want to. Web 2.0 is popular because people want to use it. They want to share, network, create and above all communicate. This presentation echoes this sentiment in a different and maybe preferable way. This is true - potentially. From an education perspective, Web 2.0 MORE >> -
LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2009 Formal Learning/Informal Learning/Just Plain Learning
There are no real interest new ideas in this post, just some reflections on a personal venture of mine. felt the need for self-disclosure - satisfying the basic human need to share and communicate. It's been a long time since my last post. This is mostly due to an assignment I am writing for an MA I've just started. I've toyed with the idea of doing one for a while now. work in an academic institution but my role is mainly one of learning design, advising people on learning design, delivering training, setting up VLE pages. There is no immediate imperative to become 'academic'. MORE >>
- Digital Natives LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2009
- Don't Tell me how to Teach! LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2009
- Web 2.0 tools in VLEs - Just not that good LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2009
- Introducing Learning Technologies - the Utopia, the Reality LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2009
- Personal Learning Environments - Concept not Tool LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2009
- Choose your own path and collaborate! LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2009
- Blackboard reinforcing the Status Quo LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2009
- Structuring Web 2.0 LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2009
- Question from John Traxler - 'Education - Fit for purpose?' LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2009
- Clarifying Informal Learning & Web 2.0 LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
- Connectivism Course - First thoughts LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
- Fear of blogging LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2009
- SMS and LMS LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2009
- Valuing Informal Learning LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2009
- Reflecting on your teaching practice LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2009
- MY PLE LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2009
- First Post LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 2009
- Teach, Learn principles LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2009
- Web 2.0 Definition LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2009
- Learning Technology Learning - Untitled Article LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2009
- Whiteboarding - ShowDocument LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2009
- New ways of working LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2009
- Blackboard Patent LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | TUESDAY, MAY 5, 2009
- Ning LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2009
- Research in E-learning LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 2009
- The nature of Blogging LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | TUESDAY, MAY 19, 2009
- Educate the educators! - Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World - JISC report - Initial thoughts LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2009
- Digital Divide - Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World - JISC report - Initial thoughts LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2009
- Behaviours fostered by Web 2.0 - Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World - JISC report LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2009
- What is your motiviation? - Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World - JISC report LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2009
- Why bother with Web 2.0 when you have a VLE LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009
- Blogs for Education, Blogs for Yourself LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 2009
- What is your motivation?? LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2009
- The culture of engagement will take time LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2009
- The Edgeless University - Comments LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2009
- Web 2.0 - Challenging Didactic Teaching LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2009
- Edgeless University - Key messages LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2009
- Academic skills using Learning Technology LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 2009
- Random selection of Web 2.0 tools LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2009
- My PLE update LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | MONDAY, JULY 13, 2009
- Web Squared comments LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | TUESDAY, JULY 14, 2009
- Learning about TPACK LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | FRIDAY, JULY 17, 2009
- Face-to-face to Online - A Process LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | MONDAY, JULY 27, 2009
- Faculty resistance to using IT tools in active learning instructional strategies LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2009
- EdTechRoundUp30 - Learning Points LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2009
- Passive Learning LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 2009
- Characteristics of Millenials LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
- Protecting the System vs Helping the Learning LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2009
- Lecture Your Way to Stardom! LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2009
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