Learning with e's

MARCH 20, 2014

Education and schooling are not the same thing. Education is where learning is personalised and unique to the individual. A paradigm shift is happening in the world of education, and it is tearing away at the fabric of traditional schooling. Co-production of knowledge is emerging as a new model for learning in the digital age.

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AUGUST 29, 2019

This include assessment and feedback - which are vital in scaffolding the student's progress through their education. Assessing learning in the digital age, where students are using a growing range of technologies and approaches to learn, is complex. JISC (2017) Effective Assessment in the Digital Age. References Biggs, J.,

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

She has done the hard miles as an educator and has innovated along the way, continuing to share her knowledge and her ideas freely among the global education community. She is bent on achieving global action around the use of technologies in education. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

Kadenze is pleased to launch a new course – Introduction to Psychology – and welcomes a new partner – Wesleyan University – to our online creative education platform. As a result, this course demonstrates a creative approach to teaching a traditional subject online. require diverse digital skills.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

There is plenty of discussion around digital competencies, learning theory and teaching environments, and I hope you'll find the content thought provoking. Open Lecture: 2018 Steve Wheeler- Literacies and competencies for learning in the digital age from Educational Development Unit on Vimeo. Unported License. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 30, 2013

All of these activities leave behind a trail, a digital footprint, a record of where we have been and what we have done. More significantly, in psychological terms, we are developing our personal digital presences, and modifying our digital profiles. Clearly, digital identity is a complex proposition to talk about.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 30, 2019

Here's a wonderful video montage of the Open Education in a Digital Age event that took place recently in Romania. Openness in the Digital Age 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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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Photo by Steinar Engeland on unsplash In yesterday's post I wrote about how teachers are beginning to use online forms of education to enhance and extend the reach of schools. Distance education in all its forms has been used for more than a century in education, leveraging the potential of each new technology as it emerges.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Education has been described as the social transmission of this learning to younger generations. So what of our habitual use of digital media? Do these constitute a digital habitus? Does the digital trail we leave online represent any part of our real lives? This discourse is highly relevant in the context of education.

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Learning with e's

JULY 12, 2018

Image by Martin42 on Wikimedia Commons When I read Being Digital for the first time, way back in 1997, it slowly dawned on me that everything was about to change. We pushed the boundaries of technology, culture and human relationships as we extended digital spaces for learning into virgin territory.

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BrainCert

JULY 26, 2023

But how do we do that in the digital age? Creating a digital course or online Learning Management System (LMS) requires an understanding of copyright and intellectual property law. Digital materials should be secured with digital rights management software when necessary. What is Copyright and Intellectual Property?

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The first was European Innovation Day, an event held at the elegant Hotel Salomon de Rothschild building that showcased innovative uses of digital technology in education, health, industry and culture. It featured four CEOs who explored the cultural and human aspects of digital transformation. Unported License.

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Kitaboo

OCTOBER 30, 2023

For example, when you create interactive, intuitive learning content with KITABOO, a digital textbook platform , and it has one-of-a-kind resources, teaching materials licensing will empower you. Educate yourself about copyright laws, read articles by experts, follow the news, and read different licenses.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

My last post was about integrating technologies into education. This could be a conversation, an image or video, or some other digital artefact. At a little higher up in the manipulation spectrum are archive technologies , which can be used to store, organise and document the digital artefacts that have been previously captured.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Over the next few days I will present an abridged, bite size series of exerpts from one of my chapters in that volume: 'Digital Tribes, Virtual Clans'. Tribes use common culture to construct group identity and will employ dialects as a shared but often exclusive form of communication. Tomorrow: The network nation References Adar, E.,

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 21, 2019

Photo by Hence The Book on unsplash Today I was notified that this blog has been listed in the top ten of the UK's most influential education blogs by Vuelio for 2019. There are thousands of blogs dedicated to education in the UK, and many of them have great content that can inspire, inform or challenge. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

If students are relying increasingly on digital technology to connect them with content, peers and tutors, and to facilitate new, distributed forms of learning, then we should endeavour to assess the learning they achieve in a relevant manner. by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

MARCH 29, 2019

The book is aimed at those working as learning and development professionals in industry, but will also be of interest to any, and all, those working in the world of learning technology, knowledge and education. Cover design by Kogan Page My new book will be published on April 3 by Kogan Page. Unported License. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 28, 2014

His mention of the Substrate-Autonomous Person got me thinking about what possible applications should could have for education in the future. So, for a biospheric environment, the person would use a biological body, for the Metaverse, a person would use an avatar, and for virtual reality, the person would use a digital form.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

And in education, it is barely present. At present, the golden touchstone is in personalised learning, where anytime, anyplace education is possible through mobile technologies. At present it is quite impossible for any educator to tailor-make study programmes for individual students. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 5, 2013

If you follow this blog you will know that I wrote a series of posts last year on digital literacies. We have a bewildering array of digital media at our fingertips, but to use these tools effectively takes a lot of practice, critical thinking and immersion in the culture before we can claim to be literate in them. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 8, 2016

Our opening keynote Helen Beetham talked about digital capabilities, which is becoming a well trodden phrase in higher education. Helen said that digital capability is the capacity to thrive in digital environments. Again, this is something that all educators should be aware of. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 14, 2017

Image from Carpe Diem I was sent a pre-publication copy of Cathy Davidson's new book The New Education recently, to review. She is a doyen of the progressive education movement, and her ideas are far reaching and influential. the teacher's authority, the broadcast model of pedagogy - all the components of higher education.'

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Learning with e's

JUNE 22, 2016

In my last blog post I illustrated a new model of digital literacies in the context of age of remix. Since then, several have asked me what I mean by remix culture, and how it applies to education. One of the most widespread examples of digital remix is Wikipedia. Remixing is a creative process.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Photo by Sergey Zolkin on unsplash Many educators are now investigating how online technologies can improve, extend or enrich teaching and learning experiences. Some schools have begun to experiment, and a few are well down the road to adopting and using online education as a viable supplement, or even replacement for face to face teaching.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Over the next two weeks I''m in New Zealand, doing a series of keynote presentations to teachers on the future of education and technology supported learning. The most important task now for all teachers everywhere, is to firstly begin to appreciate the huge potential these tools and technologies can have on education.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 1, 2019

These technologies are all beginning to play roles in our digital lives and will grow in significance in the future. They reckon that filtering out low-level problems through a digital assistant will give real human operatives a chance to interact more meaningfully with their customers. But have you heard of cognitive technology?

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CourseArc

JANUARY 12, 2022

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the online learning spotlight shone brightly on K-12 and higher education. Rightfully so, as school systems and higher education institutions across the world were scrambling to find a better online learning solution, or enhance what they already had. Digital Content Wave.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Photo from Wikimedia Commons I will argue here that within the present information age, where digital communication technologies have fractured the tyranny of distance beyond repair, and where computers have become pervasive and ubiquitous, identification through digital mediation has become the new cultural capital (Bordieu and Passeron, 1990).

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Many have said that Pelecon events inspire and energise delegates and challenge perspectives on education, learning and development, and the role of technology. The Pelecon conference is for teachers and learning professionals in all sectors of education and training, and attracts delegates from all over the world. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 29, 2012

Issue 5 considers Communication and Learning in a Digital Age , and features papers from a number of scholars in the field, including my own paper on current research perspectives on digital literacies. The latest issue of the online open journal eLearn Centre Research Paper Series has just been published. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 5, 2013

A few years ago Peter John and I wrote a book entitled 'The Digital Classroom'. Everyone in the world of education it seems, has an interest in how technology is going to influence what we do in the classroom. This is Part 5 in my series of posts on the future of learning and technology. Now there's incentive.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Learning in the industrialised world can now be contextualised within a largely technological landscape, where the use of digital media is assuming increasing importance. These facets of modern life in combination have led educators to question the validity of pre-digital age learning theories. Practice Application Brief No.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Photo by Andras Vas on unsplash Previous posts in this series have highlighted the importance of human intelligence and emotion in education. AI is not about replacing the human with a robot, it is about taking the robot out of the human" says Usama Fayyad, and this will prove to be a key theme in the future of AI enhanced education.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 5, 2020

based online education platform called ZilLearn to ask me if I would like to write some courses. I jumped at the chance, especially in this current crisis, to create some additional online resources that might be helpful in supporting educators in the mad scramble to create online, remote learning environments for their students.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 16, 2020

Image from pxfuel I'm pleased to announce the launch of module number 4 in my Digital Learning series on the new ZilLearn platform. I designed the series with teachers in mind, especially those who have been compelled by the recent crisis to migrate all of their teaching to online and technology supported education. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In previous posts in this series I have explored some of the characteristics of learning in the digital age. This is due to the challenge that ‘students teaching themselves’ might pose to the privileged knowledge and power structures many formal educational institutions continue to hold in such high regard. References Brabazon, T.

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