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MARCH 12, 2020

Photo by Pxhere At the time of writing, the Coronavirus pandemic is taking hold in many countries across the globe, and predictably, one of the many actions people are taking is social distancing. It appears then that face-to-face education, at least in the short term, is going to be imposed due to the infection risks.

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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. Learning doesn''t require the impositions of schooling. Unported License.

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APRIL 5, 2020

Photo by Steve Wheeler It wasn't that long ago that I was approached by a new U.S. based online education platform called ZilLearn to ask me if I would like to write some courses. Feel free to join in to create and upload your own min-courses. Keep safe, keep well and keep your distance. Unported License.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Friday, October 30, 2009 Finding Good Photos for Your eLearning Scenarios Do you struggle with finding good stock photos to use in your eLearning scenarios? So then do you go do a custom photo shoot? Or will you stick with free online stock photos? Maybe you have the time or the budget. But usually not.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 27, 2020

Photo by Steve Wheeler No, this is not some new discovery about the evolutionary development of snakes - nor is it a reptile dysfunction. Actually, if you're a teacher who's interested in anything to do with critical thinking, creativity or logical reasoning you should definitely be interested. Python's got legs! Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

This is a continuation of my short series on the future of higher education, and builds on yesterday''s blog post on why Social Web tools are useful to support student learning. We start with the question.how will technology help to shape the future of Higher Education? Technology will need to become more ‘transparent’ (Wheeler, 2005).

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Sadly, much of education has been slow to exploit the potential of social technologies, and in particular has not grasped the huge potential of social games. Games based learning (GBL) has yet to gain a strong foothold in formal education spaces, but there are already some signs of success. The 21st Century is the ludic century.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Sadly, much of education has been slow to exploit the potential of social technologies, and in particular has not grasped the huge potential of social games. Games based learning (GBL) has yet to gain a strong foothold in formal education spaces, but there are already some signs of success. The 21st Century is the ludic century.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 13, 2020

Photo by Julia M Cameron on Pexels In previous posts in this series (see links below), I explored some of the nuances of engaging online learners in creative writing and critical thinking. Next time, I'll discuss asynchronous forms of distance education, but in this post we'll look at synchronous modes. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 21, 2019

Photo by Airina Volungevi?ien? I told my audience at the outset that I would not attempt to educate them, because they are far too sophisticated and knowledgeable community of experts and professionals. These are presented at the very end of my keynote. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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E-Learning Acupuncture

APRIL 20, 2012

I know I have written about free photo repositories before ( here and here ). It’s an image library of arts, history and science that is mainly focused on licensing images for use in education ( your ears should perk up now ) and for commercial use. The usual credit-line requirement is there; much like a Creative Commons-type license.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 14, 2020

Photo from Pixabay This series is about how teachers can improve engagement for online learners (see links below for previous posts in the series). All forms of education require learners to engage, but when teachers and their students are separated by geographical distance, the challenges increase. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

This is a continuation from yesterday''s post on changing roles , disruptive innovation and the survival of higher education. Wikis, blogs and podcasts : a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education. BMC Medical Education 6, 41. Changing Times It is now time to take stock.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 29, 2020

Photo source: Publicdomainpictures Ever wondered how we can overcome feelings of loneliness and disconnect in distance education? It's a question that online educators have been grappling with for a long time. Wheeler, S. ALT-J , 15(2), 103-117. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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MARCH 15, 2019

Photo by Krzyboy2o on Wikimedia Commons This is a post for #OpenBlog19. The event was called 'Show that you Share' and focused on tools such as Creative Commons , personal learning environments and mobile phones as a means of creating, sharing and repurposing content, knowledge and artefacts for education.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

What will distance education look like in the future? Distance education has been with us for a long time. This was in 1840, and correspondence courses became the dominant form of distance education for several decades. What will be the future of distance education? GMT (21.00 Unported License.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2014

This is the fifth and final part of my short series of posts on the future of higher education. Younger students who entered higher education in 2008 were the first students who had grown up in a world in which connection to the internet had always been there. Unported License. Unported License. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 23, 2015

Education is underpinned by several philosophies, some of which are incompatible. As a result, there are many educational approaches, a myriad of theories and a bewildering number of perspectives. From these ancient roots grew two separate and opposing philosophies on how education should be conducted. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 2, 2019

Photo by Marshall Henrie on Wikimedia Commons My keynote speech at the nextEd2019 conference in Lisbon was titled 'Personalising learning in the digital age'. Personal and personalised learning by Steve Wheeler was written in Lisbon, Portugal and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

JUNE 12, 2020

International Journal of Educational Technologies , 1 (2/3), 147-166. 2009) Destructive creativity on the social web. Photo by Steve Wheeler Engaging online learners 1 by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Wheeler, S.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 12, 2020

Photo by Steve Wheeler In previous posts here and also here , I wrote about how to engage learners in online collaborative writing. International Journal of Educational Technologies , 1 (2/3), 147-166. Graphics and concept by Steve Wheeler Reference Gunawardena, C. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Photo from Pxhere I had the pleasure to do an speak with Sophie Bailey recently, when we recorded a session for Edtech Podcast. An apple for teacher by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Have a listen. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 1, 2016

Previous posts in this series tracked the development of educational technology over 40 years. I first started working in the field of educational technology in January 1976, at a time when technology was used more for teaching than it was for learning. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Photo by Frederick Rubensson on Flickr 'In every talk, I'm asked where I would start first in revolutionizing education (K-professional school): Answer, always. Until we change how and what we measure from 19th c productivity norms, education will deliver a 19th c product.' HERDSA Review of Higher Education, Vol 1.

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Learning with e's

MAY 12, 2019

David and me in the studio - Photo by Steve Wheeler David Hamr is a well known Czech broadcaster and radio journalist. He produces programmes about social trends and culture and is particularly passionate about alternative education. We talked about the implications of this and several alternative approaches to education.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Photo by Steve Wheeler When Shelly Terrell speaks or writes, people take notice. 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. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

Photo by Steve Wheeler Here's my opinion, for what it's worth. I write from more than 40 years experience working in educational technology while observing the rapid development of machine intelligence. Remember the old Arthur Clarke quote? Any teacher who can be replaced by a teacher, should be. I guess you could call it moblogging.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 27, 2020

Photo source: Pexels Social distancing. It's also a shout out to the teachers, the school staff, nursery workers and others who look after and educate our young people, week in, week out, whatever else is going on in the world. I salute educators everywhere. Stay at home. And what about resilience? But we are a resilient people.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 11, 2020

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. International Journal of Educational Technologies , 1 (2/3), 147-166. Wheeler, S.

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Learning with e's

MAY 29, 2017

I can't see any other way education can be conceived. From my early years in education, studying Freedom to Learn by Carl Rogers and my initial forays into the classroom as a fledgling educator, I have strongly believed in the principles of keeping the student at the centre of the learning experience. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

For many it was impossible to see it being used for anything more than admin, and as an application for education, it was out of the question. When you are too close to a problem, it is often difficult to stand back and see the wider applications. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

As an educator, what tool or technology would you never be without in the classroom or learning space? I often catch them taking photos of the board so they can go away and revisit the notes later on. This means sitting down and relinquishing control of the screen to them, something some educators may find uncomfortable.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

This is a continuation from yesterday''s blog post on changing times and the survival of higher education. Below are four reasons why the Social Web and associated media are changing higher education. British Journal of Educational Technology , 39(6), 987-995. Digital Learning: Repurposing Education. Wheeler, S.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Because of my work in educational technology at the nursing college, I naturally chose to study something that I was familiar with, but with an aspect that would present me with a challenge. My knowledge of distance education, open learning and telematics technologies was just the skill set the project was looking for.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

I've just celebrated 40 years working in educational technology. But for most of my new job I was going to be working with something called educational technology. But I can honestly say that during 40 years working in educational technology, there has always been change, and I have often had to run to keep up with it.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Photo by Filip Mroz on unsplash In my first post in this blog series I outlined the changes taking place in schools due to the adoption of online forms of education. In my follow-up post, I posed a key question for teachers to answer if they wished to become successful online educators. How can we engage online learners?

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Learning with e's

MAY 8, 2020

Photo by Wiros on Wikimedia Commons Here's another response to a question I received from participants during the recent webinar I presented for EDEN. Saying this in the past has meant I've laughingly been labelled an anti-intellectual, but I'm not against content and I've always championed teachers and education.

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