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Moving from Teacher to Facilitator | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

It’s in your mind One of the pioneers of adult learning theory, Malcom Knowles , explored the role of adult education and facilitation (andragogy) versus the traditional style of teaching children (pedagogy). Now the learner is responsible for helping create and shape the learning experience, and now they share the accountability as well.

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In Challenging Times: Make Lemonade in eLearning

Litmos

Asynchronous experiences may be different, but some authentic "voice" makes the experience more manageable. These work better asynchronously, of course, but they can be leveraged synchronously. And blended can mean mixing up asynchronous with synchronous activity. We also should revisit our pedagogy.

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Instructivism, constructivism or connectivism?

E-Learning Provocateur

The popular sequence of events that I have recounted is often represented pictorially as a gradient, accompanied by that ubiquitous table comparing various aspects of the three pedagogies. Sure, the gradient reflects a wonderful growth of ideas, but I think it’s a trap to conclude that the latter pedagogies supersede the former.

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History Need Not Repeat

CLO Magazine

The first lesson is that pedagogy matters more than technology. For example, recreating the case method in an asynchronous platform seems counter-intuitive. We had to forget the idea that the case method could only be implemented with synchronous interaction, otherwise the model would not be sustainable.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Web Courseworks

IOT Physical Simulators: The idea here is to build physical training devices that connect to online learning technology. This idea is still incubating in most places in the industry, but we have seen some evidence of movement outside of our own pilots. Trough of Disillusionment. We are all for it.

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eXSpace exploration

Learning with e's

Firstly, it will support collaborative learning in numerous ways, not least because students could use the board for the purposes of brainstorming ideas, organising their projects, mapping out alternative approaches to solving a problem, group mind mapping, and so on.

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Is Having Fun in Higher Education the Way Forward?

KnowledgeOne

In an interview conducted by the TALON online teaching and learning network, Lisa Forbes and David Thomas discuss game pedagogy in higher education and online learning. Here is the gist of what they have to say! “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” ” George Bernard Shaw.