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Supporting online learners

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Photo by Steve Wheeler I have just published a third module in my series on digital learning for the ZilLearn platform. Supporting Online Learners by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Future technologies now

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HTC Vive in action - Photo by Steve Wheeler At the JISC Connect More event held in Cheltenham recently, a number of futuristic technologies were on display for delegates to experience. In fact, it was surprising how inexpensive but robust some of the alternatives were in comparison to Cardboard. Unported License.

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Go compare

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In this post, we explore the work of Leon Festinger , namely social comparison theory. This is social comparison, and influences the way we behave and think, the clothes we wear and even the way we speak. Teachers should be aware that social comparison can have a negative influence on students'' self evaluation.

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People, politics and pedagogy

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Photo by David Bushell on Geograph In a previous incarnation I was Training Manager for a distance learning project called RATIO back in 1996. There was plenty of squabbling about how many computers each centre would be allocated, and then once they received them, how much training we were giving them in comparison to other centres.

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Many pathways

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Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. education Howard Gardner intelligence interpersonal intrapersonal kinaesthetic knowledge learning Multiple intelligence theory naturalistic'

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Reciprocity learning

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The psychologist Leon Festinger developed social comparison theory - a theory that attempted to explain how people relate to each other psychologically. Social comparison, in Festinger's terms, is not considered to be a form of competition, but more likely will be to elicit a feeling of belonging within our chosen community.

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From novice to expert

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Festinger Social Comparison Theory 11. Knowles Andragogy Photo by Thomas Hawk on Fotopedia From novice to expert by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Craik and Lockhart Levels of Processing 6. Csíkszentmihályi Flow Theory 7.