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Engaging online learners 1

Learning with e's

There are many, many ways to do this of course, and in this series of blog posts I will aim to explore a few methods that I have tried with success in engaging my own students. Wheeler, 2009, p 487) Continues in the next post. 2009) Destructive creativity on the social web. Let's start with collaborative online spaces.

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Engaging online learners 2

Learning with e's

Photo from Pxhere In my previous blog post I remarked that engaging learners can be difficult in any context, but is often harder in online environments. I also mentioned a very useful model that promotes creative, collaboration online writing. Wheeler, 2009, p 487) Read more in the next post. References Gunawardena, C.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

Over the past few years, I spend part of December going back through my blog to recap a bit of what some of the key things I’ve learned over the course of the year. I’ve been doing this the past few years, for example: Learned about Learning in 2009. Instead, Joel would write it up. I’d ask questions and edit it.

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An audience with.

Learning with e's

Mindful of these theories, I have recently been working alongside students to encourage them to write for an audience. Normally, in higher education, students write for an audience of one. They write essays, projects and dissertations that will be read only by their tutor or marker. Nothing new in that, you may think.

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Yesterday's blog post

Learning with e's

But are you as good as your last blog? Does yesterday's blog post still hold currency or must you continually press forward to write better, to expand on your ideas and elaborate your understanding of your subject? My Teaching with Twitter post from January 2009 is still going strong with 12,000 views. What do you think?

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Games for girls

Learning with e's

Many have some great ideas to share, and we encourage student blogging very strongly in Plymouth. Games based learning is currently a hotly debated topic in education and is a fertile field of study (Holmes, 2011; Abrams, 2009). Technology student games education dan kennedy school publication blogging Lucy Kitching'

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Kineo Top Tips

Learning Visions

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 Kineo Top Tips Although my blogging volume may be down, my writing volume certainly is not. Amidst client projects and presentations I think Im actually writing more than ever. Thanks for sharing :) I have spread the news further here: [link] Through my new swoosh delicious blog (whatever!).

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