Learning with e's

APRIL 13, 2020

It's called Supporting Online Learners and the link is here. If you're new to online teaching, or are revisiting it, do consider spending an hour of your time to browse through the ideas in this module. This course, as with the others, is completely free to take - and is especially written with teachers in mind.

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Learning with e's

JULY 5, 2015

Pedagogy is not about directing children. In its absolute form, pedagogy is not just about teaching. In the truest sense, teaching is just one element of pedagogy and not the entire story. In the truest sense, teaching is just one element of pedagogy and not the entire story.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

Image from Pickpik The question I have been asked the most in recent months is one all teachers are interested in now they have been compelled to use online learning. It is this: What can I do to engage my learners in an online environment? There's more to education than standing up and teaching. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 23, 2020

Educators need to understand this when they teach online. What's more, they are placed into the context of online learning, digital pedagogy, social and psychological theory and teaching in the technology enabled world of the virtual classroom. You'd be mad to miss out. You're welcome. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It's important because it shows that assessment drives they way we teach. This is a simple principle of pedagogy known as constructive alignment (Biggs and Tang, 2011) where we start with outcomes that students need to achieve, support these with appropriate pedagogy, and then assess accordingly (Biggs, 2014). and Tang, C.

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Kadenze

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.

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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. In my next post I will present the questions, and elaborate on them to support an online discussion. Please post them in the comments box below. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 16, 2020

It's a free, self contained online unit and takes less than an hour to complete. 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. Please use the comments box below. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 13, 2017

Clearly the binary is used as a rhetorical device, and in reality, each teacher is unique in the way they approach and practice their pedagogy. This is not a debate about whether progressive or traditional teaching is uppermost. And yet there is a cogent argument in this statement. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

In my last post I discussed Daniel S Christian''s three trends of an emerging pedagogy. I speculated on whether a new social divide might also emerge as a result of the new pedagogy he outlines. Christian argues that much of the change we are currently witnessing in teaching methods is driven by new technologies.

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Learning with e's

JULY 15, 2014

I was invited to do a Google Hangout video interview ahead of the Reform Symposium online event last week. I was interviewed by Shelly Terrell about my work, my teaching philosophy, and yes. Once the spotlight is off the technology, and on to pedagogy, we will realise that learning can be supported in any number of ways.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 29, 2020

Notwithstanding, many sudden changes have been forced upon us all, and the 'online pivot' has become the latest dance craze for the whole of modern society. Church Across our nation, church buildings are closed, gatherings are banned, and people are now doing worship online. Work Working from home has quickly become the norm.

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Learning with e's

MAY 5, 2017

They have to write a 5000 word essay (their final one before they leave the university to take up their first jobs in primary teaching), and they have to try to come up with an answer. EEES613 by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 14, 2017

No matter what innovations are created inside of the university around pedagogy, it seems they rarely if ever seem to take root and spread across institutions. Cathy Davidson is quite critical of current the higher education system, citing numerous examples of how creativity is stifled and how '.the Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 2, 2019

In online and virtual forms of education, especially blended forms of pedagogy, learners are constantly transitioning between complex states as they learn, interact with their tools, content and with others; and as they navigate, discover, create, organise, remix, repurpose and share content. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 4, 2018

Schools can arrange for updates to be automatically installed overnight, or during non-teaching hours. SMART's Learning Suite , for example, is a useful online resource that shows how educators can get the best out of their IWBs. Thirdly, teachers need time to tinker, experiment and test out new ideas and new pedagogies.

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CourseArc

MARCH 15, 2017

Since online learning often separates teachers from learners across time and distance, we rely on evaluations – in the form of tests, quizzes and assessments – to judge each student’s successful comprehension of the content (and to judge how well the course designers presented their information). But what makes a good test question?

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 7, 2019

We have traversed several emerging ideas, including the use of virtual teaching assistants (chatbots), ultra-personalised learning and machine intelligence, but the most important component in education is still the human element. Other jobs in society may already have been supplanted by robotics and artificial intelligence. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 28, 2019

Image captured by Angeles Sánchez-Elvira Paniagua Earlier this week I took part in two online webinars. All of the links are below, courtesy of the Empower Higher Education events team at EADTU (European Association for Distance Teaching Universities). Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 20, 2014

He is one of the pioneers of online and distance learning, and currently serves as the editor of the influential online open access journal International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning ( IRRODL ). When did you first become involved with research into distance education and online learning?

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 3, 2013

Firstly, he argues, teachers tend to use new technology in much the same way they used old technology, and that as a result very little has changed in terms of pedagogy. Cuban is very sceptical of online courses, and presumably his sceptiscism also embraces MOOCs. Online course, he argues, fall very short of delivering this richness.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

One astute observation is that even when universities do adopt online modes of teaching such as MOOCs , all that seems to occur is the lecture is transferred to digital format. by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

APRIL 26, 2019

As politely as I could, I explained to him that making his students sit through a full 90 minutes of video was not particularly good pedagogy. There is an abundance of knowledge available on the medium, thanks to online services such as Daily Motion , YouTube and Vimeo. I was appalled. Cognitive Science 12, 257-285. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The conference is themed around excellence in teaching of the social sciences, which reflects my own professional and academic background. What issues in HE teaching and learning are you passionate about? No-one knows for certain, but we know for sure how many access an article from an online journal. We have the technology.

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CourseArc

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

How Should You Design Your Online Course’s Assessments? It suggests that, as part of a comprehensive teaching approach including high-level questioning and group work, one way to increase performance of underprepared students is by administering daily or weekly quizzes as enforcement of the principles being studied.

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CourseArc

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Our course creators also have access to a variety of teaching methods and multiple options for presenting new content. Image of hourglass by Alexander Boden via Flickr Creative Commons License. Watch our demo video and see what CourseArc can help you create for your students!

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Learning with e's

MARCH 29, 2020

It's a question that online educators have been grappling with for a long time. When you're online, or using your smartphone to communicate, do you ever feel 'connected' to the person at the other end? Photo source: Publicdomainpictures Ever wondered how we can overcome feelings of loneliness and disconnect in distance education?

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CourseArc

MAY 10, 2017

For example, when designing a course to teach employees how to operate a certain piece of equipment safely, it’s often tempting to outline course objectives in a manner like… The objectives of this course are to: help factory staff learn key operating procedures. Army via Flickr Creative Commons License. WANT MORE HELP?

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Learning with e's

MAY 2, 2019

We recorded micro-teaches - usually a 10 minute lesson - and then played back the footage to the students so they could see and hear themselves and learn from the experience. They actively seek out content to supplement and extend their learning experiences, and use their personal devices to access online content (Steckner, 2017).

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Learning with e's

MARCH 17, 2017

Makey Makey in action Some time ago I wrote a blog post on innovative teaching - where teachers take risks, stand back to let students learn for themselves, and provide challenging and engaging experiences. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

The methods we use to try to align school and university teaching with the demands of contemporary society will shape the extent to which we succeed. A lot of institutions are adopting versions of this method, and are employing technology, particularly video and online content to achieve it. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 18, 2012

You learn through social engagement online for example, that typing words in UPPERCASE represents shouting. The question we should now ask is, should we be teaching these literacies more formally in schools, colleges and universities, and if so, how will we go about it? 1972) Pedagogy of the Oppressed. References Freire, P.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Billed as one of the largest learning technology trade fairs in Europe, it dwarfs the likes of mega conferences such as Online Educa Berlin , with well over 7000 visitors over the three days of the exhibition and conference. I had several frank and fruitful discussions with them about learning needs, technology trends and emerging pedagogies.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 11, 2015

Among other things, Jim Groom is Director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies and adjunct professor at the University of Mary Washington, USA. Groom's concern is that users of the web reclaim their content and identity, where they can take back control of their domain, publishing online and syndicating everywhere.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 19, 2009

Professional content It may be my perception, but the pedagogy that is often so prevalent in the writing of teachers, about resources for teaching and learning, is often scarce in the writing of instructional designers, when writing about the same things. those who cant, teach. Those who cant teach, teach gym."

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Learning with e's

MARCH 16, 2015

What first attracted you to working in education/teaching/research, and why are you still there? My field was ArtificialIntelligence , but I started experimenting with online tutor groups, producing web pages, etc and migrated into educational technology (as many people did). I joined the OU in 1995 just as the web was taking off.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

I start researching one topic online, but start diving down a completely different path within a matter of a few clicks. But I dont think folks are comfortable with the notion that TEACHING or TRAINING can or should be messy. What makes for messy training/teaching? Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID.

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