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or not to lecture

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In my previous post I wrote that even though research shows lectures to be less than effective in helping students to learn, they still persist in higher education. The key question is: What can replace the lecture? Worse still, they may decide not to attend lectures at all. There is no point simply talking at them for an hour.

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Digital capabilities

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Image from Wikimedia Commons I visited the University of Greenwich for the first time recently to give an invited open lecture to academic staff. There is plenty of discussion around digital competencies, learning theory and teaching environments, and I hope you'll find the content thought provoking. Unported License.

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#TwistedTrope 23: Dale's crappy cone

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Dale's cone of experience is so named because once teachers experience it, they realise that it is a fairly useless theory in education (well, mostly - some are still fooled by it - Editor). Dale's cone - remember the convenient segments? This is similar to believing in learning styles , unicorns and politicians who tell the truth.

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Visions, values and video streaming

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During the sessions we will discuss social and political influences the curriculum, and explore many of the theories, practices and influences that have made school what it is today (for better or for worse). We will feature a series of presentations and dialogues which we are calling 'learning events'. Unported License.

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Shifting sands

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Allow me elaborate: Many of our pedagogical theories and much of our practice in higher education is grounded in, and has been derived from, a pre-digital era, when the lecturer or professor was central to the process of education, and where the classroom was the predominant place for learning to take place. Unported License.

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Learners as producers

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For the longest time teachers and lecturers have held the monopoly on the production of academic content. Teacher roles have been moving from didactic to facilitative roles ever since constructivist theories started to enter into teacher training curricula. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Streaming learning events

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We are live streaming all of the keynote lectures for the next few weeks for our Visions and Values module - with a focus on educational philosophy, theory and practice. The next lecture in the series will be tomorrow, at 1600 BST (GMT +1) when our speakers will be Kelly Davis (One size fits all - or does it?) Unported License.