Learning with e's

MAY 27, 2011

But it is probably still true that you are only as good as your last journal article, book, or conference presentation. But some old ideas are fine, and the great thing about academic blogging is that the more you write, the greater will be the repository of content you have written. Well, it's yes to both. Old ideas go out of date.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 15, 2012

The jury is still out on the future of paper based content, but for the record I see no immediate demise of the book. I was challenged by delegates at Solstice to elaborate on the legal and ethical issues of Creative Commons and other Copyleft approaches. The question is: do you like reading or do you like books?

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

During my keynote for the Zukunft Personal event in Cologne, I publicly announced that I would no longer publish my work in closed journals. In truth, the last time one of my papers was published in a pay-to-subscribe journal was quite some time ago. How much does it cost a publishing house to create and maintain an online journal?

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 15, 2020

Safeguarding: Information on each student's home life can be added to their profiles, and specific permissions added so that content can only be viewed by staff members that need access. American Educational Research Journal, 39 (1), 101-132. References Blatchford, P. et al (2002) Relationships between class size and teaching.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 18, 2014

If you are a student you may be sat in the same classroom or lecture hall as many other students, and listening to the same content, but you interpret it differently to everyone else. Much has been written on PLEs, including a wealth of peer reviewed journal articles that feature empirical research. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Universities are replete with lecture capture tools, interactive media, web based content and personal response technologies; students arrive equipped with social media and mobile devices; technology supported distance education has been long established; universities are experimenting with flipped classrooms, gaming and MOOCs.

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Learning with e's

JULY 24, 2010

Before anyone points out the fact that paper based journal cost money to produce, edit, review, print and distribute, I want to make the following points: Most academic journals are run by academics on a voluntary basis - those who review for my journal don't get paid a penny.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

In the speech below, which I gave at the Solstice Conference in June 2012 at Edge Hill University, I argue that we need to be more open about our content and tools, ownership of learning, intellectual property and even the very practices we participate in on a daily basis - open scholarship if you will. So be open. You know you want to.

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Mark Oehlert

JUNE 19, 2008

There is a journal, Field Methods , with an editor - H. Now someone from the journal PLEASE explain to me, what benefits you and/or your customers derives from you having this relationship with this publisher?! Does the journal get a slice of the money that the publisher charges consumers without which the journal could not operate?

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Learning with e's

MARCH 29, 2011

A lot of time has been spent studying the impact of user generated content. Some of the best content is often provided by amateurs - people who are not necessarily specialists or qualified in their field of interest, but who are never the less passionate about their subject. But it's not plain sailing. But what is research anyway?

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 27, 2016

What have been the benefits to you of being open, and of freely sharing your content, experiences and ideas? Is there a line that could be crossed where we are 'too free' in sharing our ideas and content? 4) Is open content truly 'free'? 6) What will be the future of 'free' and open content? Are they right or wrong?

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Learning with e's

APRIL 8, 2012

In an editorial piece in the American Journal of Distance Education in 1989 Moore outlined his three levels. Moore's third kind of interaction is learner-content. The American Journal of Distance Education, 8 (2), 30-42. The American Journal of Distance Education , 3 (2), 1-6. According to theorist Michael G.

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Learning with e's

MAY 24, 2014

Educators should think about how they can encourage students to process content in deeper and more meaningful ways. For example, students process content more deeply if they have to discuss its meaning, or are involved in solving a related problem. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior , 11 (6), 671-684.

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Mark Oehlert

JUNE 19, 2008

eLearning Guilds Summer Seminar Series | Main | Off Topic: Lets look at this at this as a chance to learn about oil » June 19, 2008 Soapbox for the Day: Academic Journals like Field Methods, that dont support things like access to their content Honest to goodness, someone please respond to me so we can have an open conversation about this.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Steve Nguyen said “Why can’t we just be seen as people who create great content?” Ah – the heresy… The perception was that ID degrees teach people the technology and the means, but not how to focus on the content. He thought the phrase “we create content” an interesting one. “Do Do you really create content?

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Learning with e's

APRIL 27, 2011

Journal articles take so long to publish, they are often out of date long before the ink is dry. This is because they go through a process of peer review and revision, and then they can hit a brickwall if the journal has a significant backlog of accepted papers, and a page count limit (which most do). How about some monetary reward?

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Lecturers now need to create and update content and share it via a Learning Management System (other names are available), usually 48 hours prior to the relevant lecture so that students can see the slides and notes beforehand to 'prepare'. Not in just any academic journal. Sandwiched in the middle of these chores is chaos.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

A journal article by Kirk and Pitches (2013) is a useful starting point, because they identify three specific categories of technology that have a place in contemporary learning. Capture technologies include cameras, recording devices, and other simple to use tools that can record and store content. Reference Kirk, C. and Pitches, J.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

In several previous posts on this blog I have extolled the virtues of open content, and have called for traditional journals to go open access. That's what happens when content is made free and open for all. After all, the content is only there as a result of the hard work of academics and authors, so it's only fair.

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Learning with e's

JULY 30, 2016

Here's an excerpt from the article, published in the open access journal Future Internet. Photo from Pixabay Instagram, WhatsApp and Learning by Steve Wheeler was written in Melbourne, Australia and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 The full text is available at this link.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 23, 2010

The Law journal has this definition of IP: "Intellectual property (IP) is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which property rights are recognised - and the corresponding fields of law". Intellectual property is a strange and difficult concept. It's also increasingly anachronistic. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 12, 2013

Earlier, in a 2008 article '' The Good, the Bad and the Wiki '', my colleagues and I had reported that students became very protective over ''their content'' in collaborative spaces such as wikis and took pride in presenting their ideas to a wider public audience. At Pelecon 2013 five more students presented their work. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 16, 2016

A key feature of social media is its open architecture, because it allows all members of a community to easily modify, extend or delete content. Nothing is permanent, content is iterative and everything is a work in progress. 2008) The good, the bad and the wiki: Evaluating student generated content as a collaborative learning tool.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 12, 2014

I believe it has also made me more creative. I can also create my own content with relative ease, and receive rich feedback from my online networked community of peers. One of the major shifts in this paradigm is that everyone and anyone can now create and share content on a global stage to a potentially worldwide audience.

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Learning with e's

MAY 7, 2013

I have co-authored several books with colleagues whom I have never met, where social media tools were used to co-create the content across the distance. This study, published in open access online journal First Monday is intriguingly titled: Mapping the Global Twitter Heartbeat: The Geography of Twitter. The stories go on and on.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In my presentation, entitled The Good, the Blog and the Wiki, I tried to paint some broad brushstrokes on how students (and their teachers) are creating and sharing content that supports their learning, both socially and academically, through a range of social media. Sinful, I ask you. Good grief. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

The essential premise underpinning the use of any Social Web application is that over a period of time it genuinely becomes self-supporting, and that the students will enjoy the freedom to produce their own content and study pathways. Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association 27, 65-67. and Purdon, M. Introducing Web 2.0:

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 27, 2013

Using your own personal devices to access learning, access peer groups, access social networking, access the ability to create and share content, anywhere and everywhere. As we're talking I'm watching citizen journalism going on, on the television in front of me. This London helicopter crash that has happened. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 27, 2012

If these theories are true, and younger students do learn differently, the implications for education are profound, demanding changes to the way formal learning content is developed, delivered and organised, and a reappraisal of our conception of knowledge and what it means for education. References Bennett, S., and Kervin, L. 2008) Web 2.0

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Learning with e's

JULY 2, 2018

A strong recommendation is for teachers to step aside, practice the social constructivist mantra of letting students interact with the content, and also each other as they learn. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 21(2), 91-101. Fourthly, IWBs can become an extension, or mind tool for students. Higgins, S., and Miller, J.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 21, 2012

In the last century, education (in all its forms) was based on the assumption that knowledge content was scarce, and that formal education (university, college, school) was the only place it could be accessed. Within a short space of time, user generated content in all its forms began to assume prominence. Content isn't king anymore.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 24, 2012

One of the greatest changes (and challenges) for education over the last few years has been the proliferation of user generated content. Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, 27, 65-67. Health Informatics and Libraries Journal, 24(1), 2-23. More on this in future posts on this blog. References Barsky, E.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

They can engage with learning content with more freedom. Secondly, mobile technology is disruptive because it encourages creativity. The creation, repurposing and sharing of content has never been easier. Students who are on the move can interact with their environments in more meaningful ways when they have mobile phones.

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Learning with e's

JULY 12, 2015

Many have openly pledged to never write, edit or review for closed journals again. Others choose to continue publishing their work in conventional peer-reviewed journals, but also disseminate their work widely through non-peer reviewed digital channels. Photo by Justinc on Wikimedia Commons Open or shut? Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 8, 2013

I have scoured my personal book library in search of a dozen books that have influenced my own thinking, and share a synopsis of their contents with you. Photo by Steve Wheeler All together now by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 For previous reviews start here.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

There are many blogs I would read in place of closed journal content. Blogging is more immediate (some traditional journals take many months to publish papers, which by then are well out of date) which also means it is timely and up to date. There was no blood on the carpet, but there could well have been. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 16, 2017

I began to involve myself in the open learning movement, encouraging my colleagues to produce learning content in accessible formats. I led several initiatives, including editing high profile ed tech journals, leading academic programmes and chairing professional bodies. The 10s have been equally busy for me. Unported License.

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