Learning with e's
SEPTEMBER 10, 2011
For Naughton, Craigslist had caused a dramatic and irreversible downturn in newspaper advertising revenue, and Wikipedia was hammering the nails into the proverbial coffin of the encyclopedia industry. Are teachers and lecturers prepared for the brave new world of the digital? Unported License.
Learning with e's
JUNE 20, 2013
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. We now live on shifting sands.
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Learning with e's
JANUARY 19, 2011
Just take Wikipedia: Technically it is a collaborative work space for creating content. There are around 7.000 authors for the German Wikipedia edition. The basic idea behind Wikipedia is that everybody can be an editor and a commentator. Others don’t accept the idea that students have the same status as lecturers.
Learning with e's
AUGUST 19, 2015
Other technologies have similar potential for positive disruption, and yet are largely ignored or forbidden in formal education contexts Wikipedia, as I mentioned in yesterday's post , is a disruptor. The basic philosophy behind Wikipedia and the general practice of user generated content is that everybody can be an editor and a commentator.
Learning with e's
MARCH 31, 2012
The conversation around online encyclopedias inevitably led us to discuss Wikipedia and its relevance in academic study. Wikipedia is good as a starting point, but students need to be aware that there is more in-depth knowledge available elsewhere in journals and books. Unported License. Based on a work at steve-wheeler.blogspot.com.
Learning Visions
JUNE 28, 2007
Imagine how much less sizzle theres be if you substituted "lecture" for "podcast" -- the former is antiquated, 20th-century thinking; the latter is hip, even if you have to use a USB drive instead of a real iPod. Podcasts are portable lectures. Incremental if its just a portable lecture. This was an example of a mashup.
E-Learning Acupuncture
OCTOBER 30, 2007
It’s an Open Learning Initiative, which is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Direct them to the links you find useful and supplement you lecture and textbook material with more interactive content. Definitely worth a look! Chemistry Labs at a Distance: the Kitchen takes Ce. Live classroom polling without clickers?
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