Learning with e's

JUNE 11, 2020

I also mentioned a very useful model that promotes creative, collaboration online writing. It can be adapted for a number of contexts, especially to promote various kinds of collaborative learning. 1995) Social presence theory and implications for interaction and collaborative learning in computer conferences. Wheeler, S.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The title of my keynote is ' Learning in the Digital Age: Theoretical Perspectives. ' How might we harness the powerful potential of these tools and technologies to engage students more, and enhance learning in higher education? What issues in HE teaching and learning are you passionate about? I'm not the only one.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

I spoke about Open Educational Practices, (including Open Educational Resources and Open Scholarship) a subject which I am learning more about all the time as the movement grows and gains traction. The publishing houses who once had a strangle hold on academic journals are beginning to lose their grip.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 29, 2012

The latest issue of the online open journal eLearn Centre Research Paper Series has just been published. 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. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 24, 2014

This is number 5 in my blog series on major learning theories. This is a simplified interpretation of the theory, so if you wish to learn more, please read the original works. Educators should also give students opportunities to present their learning through seminars, or through the creation of artefacts (e.g. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Indeed, the very first peer reviewed journal article I published, was entitled 'Managing technological change in nurse education'. It appeared in a British Computer Society journal in 1992. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

They will probably publish their work in a highly rated peer reviewed journal which very few will read, because only a very few will be able to penetrate the pay wall the publisher has erected to ''protect'' the research (which has usually been funded through public taxation). Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Open access journals (and there are several alternative funding models that support these) are the best way to address these problems. They open content up to be read by a much larger audience, and in my personal experience, they turn around reviews and publish sugnifcantly quicker than the standard traditional closed journals.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 21, 2013

There were so many prominent distance education and e-learning practitioners and theorists in attendance, it was a little difficult to know where to start. Here''s the video: An interview with Michael G Moore by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 16, 2018

The idea of future skills for learning is widely debated in all sectors, but for me, the answer is the same, whether you are a primary school student or a participant in learning and development in a large organisation. Today, the most important skills seem to be focused on one ability - learning to learn, or meta learning.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 1, 2014

not peer reviewed) is seen as inferior to those articles that appear in highly rated journals. Yet somehow, I feel this is a huge mistake, because many academics who write in those ''high quality'' journals also blog. What academic journal could promise me that kind of audience? Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

One of my earliest jobs back in the 1980s was managing the educational technology and learning resources for several nurse education centres across the South West of England. Exploring medical technologies by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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CourseArc

OCTOBER 26, 2021

OER levels the playing field for all learners: learners who don’t have the economic resources to buy textbooks; learners who learn differently; and school systems who lack the resources for updated materials, for example. OER also puts learning in the hands of the learner and the educator. Want to learn more about CourseArc?

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Photo from Pxhere I can't speak for anyone else, but my own personal learning is most enriched when I'm in conversations with others. I recently read a thought provoking article in the RSA journal about how one English school is harnessing the power of dialogue to enhance learning. 2017) Anatomy of Learning.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 27, 2013

There is nothing to stop students going farther and publishing their work in mainstream journals - if their work is good enough it should be shared widely. Some of my previous students have published in journals in the past few years. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. It''s also very motivating for them.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 15, 2020

Children need a great deal of support throughout their learning journey. Arguably one of children's most important needs is to know how well they are doing (Gardner, 2012) and this is where assessment for learning can play a key role. American Educational Research Journal, 39 (1), 101-132. References Blatchford, P. Gardner, J.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 15, 2012

In my own keynote speech the following morning, speaking to an audience of around 200 library and information professionals, I argued that libraries need to become more flexible and agile (and indeed many already are), to respond to new learning practices, and an increased interest in knowledge and research.

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Learning with e's

JULY 30, 2016

In a recently published article, my colleagues Maged Boulos, Dean Giustini and I write about how learning through social media is transforming medical practices, health care and education. Here's an excerpt from the article, published in the open access journal Future Internet. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 2, 2017

And before you point out to me that university is where all the new learning and research is done, I would like to mention that schools are great places to do research. Amy and her fellow primary school students became the youngest ever children to publish their research in a peer reviewed journal at just 10 years old.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 18, 2014

That means that when you learn, you do it differently to everyone else. It follows that the tools and technologies you use for learning are those you have selected to use because you are (or should be) comfortable with them, personally. These tools, services and technologies become a part of your personal learning environment or PLE.

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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

MAY 27, 2011

But it is probably still true that you are only as good as your last journal article, book, or conference presentation. This is a little different to publishing a paper based journal article or book. Perhaps you subsequently rethink, revise or otherwise change your ideas as you learn more. Yet you can't change the printed word.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 16, 2011

In an interesting episode last year, I personally experienced the power of the viral web through Wikipedia Commons. I took several pictures of Punk Godfather Malcolm McLaren when he spoke at Handheld Learning 2009 in London. Subsequently others loaded it up in several versions to Wikimedia Commons. Unported License.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Photo by Jason Roswell on unsplash Online learning is becoming increasingly popular and widespread, and is now reaching into compulsory education. Teachers in schools are considering the extent to which common pedagogical methods can be adapted into online environments, or whether they need to be completely revised and reconceptualised.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

If we believe education is a fundamental human right, then we go all out to provide good, affordable, accessible opportunities to learn the important things we will need to survive in an uncertain world. Be open by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Knowledge is like love.

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Learning with e's

JULY 13, 2015

In yesterday's post entitled ' Open or shut ', I wrote about a rise in the number of academics who are turning their back on traditional research publications such as closed journals, in favour of more open, accessible outputs such as blogs and open access journals. That portion grew to 47% by 2013.

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Learning with e's

JULY 19, 2011

Although journal articles and books are a great source of knowledge, many articles go quickly out of date, and were probably in most cases already out of date by the time they were published, due to ponderous editorial and review processes, and a general back-log of articles that wait in a queue to be published. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Researching Social Media in Education: What can we learn? That was the main reason, I declared, that I resigned from my job as Co-editor of a major Taylor and Francis journal late last year. Paper based journals suffer from editorial back logs and there is little they can do to alleviate this problem. I expected it.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 4, 2016

How do you represent your learning? Many keep libraries of books, journals and other media on their shelves, used for reference to remind them of theories, principles or methods they wish to recall. Some teach, and see their own learning represented as a legacy that lives on in the next generation of learners. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

In this post I will featuring direct quotations from legendary American psychologist Jerome S Bruner , whose work focused on the psychology of learning, pedagogical methods such as instructional scaffolding and the spiral curriculum , as well as social constructivist learning methods. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

MAY 22, 2014

This is number 4 in my blog series on major learning theories. Yesterday we examined the work of Albert Bandura on social learning theory. Today, we explore the work of Jerome Bruner on scaffolding of learning. This is a simplified interpretation of the theory, so if you wish to learn more, please read the original works.

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Learning with e's

JULY 29, 2019

I haven't given up on peer reviewed publishing, but I have turned away from closed journals and publications toward openness and accessibility. All this has been possible because they are all labelled as Creative Commons with a repurpose licence. So here they are - the top five posts in the history of Learning With 'E's: 1.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

I have been thinking a lot about personalised learning lately. Last night, during a panel discussion for the Plymouth Education Society, I made a statement that the current UK National Curriculum doesn't make a lot of room for personalised learning. Standardised assessment militates against personalised learning too.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 31, 2012

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology , 22, 453-474. Journal of Personality and Social Behaviour , 63 (5), 754-765. Photo by Steve Wheeler Teacher beliefs by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. References Ajzen, I. and Madden, T.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Informal and self regulated learning are defining characteristics of 21 st Century education. Various commentators suggest that as much as seventy percent of learning occurs outside of formal educational settings (Cofer, 2000; Dobbs, 2000; Cross, 2006). The central tenet of heutagogy is that people inherently know how to learn.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 8, 2012

We all have different definitions of what interaction involves, but most of us agree - it's an important component of learning. In an editorial piece in the American Journal of Distance Education in 1989 Moore outlined his three levels. The American Journal of Distance Education, 8 (2), 30-42. According to theorist Michael G.

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