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. Today, as many of us attempt to teach online, it's often that case that a lot of our energy is expended on keeping students focused and engaged - and at a distance.

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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). And yet asynchronous modes of online learning can be as equally powerful as synchronous methods. Here are seven ways you can increase engagement in asynchronous online learning: 1.

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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

APRIL 2, 2020

BETT has also created a community hub so that educators everywhere can share ideas and resources, discuss and work together online during the school closures. The second link leads to a link from Google, who have launched a Teach from Home hub that is open to all users. Keep well, keep safe, keep your distance. Unported License.

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BrainCert

JULY 26, 2023

As you embark on the exciting path of sharing knowledge and expertise through online courses, it's crucial to navigate the legal landscape surrounding content ownership and usage. Creating a digital course or online Learning Management System (LMS) requires an understanding of copyright and intellectual property law.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 5, 2020

based online education platform called ZilLearn to ask me if I would like to write some courses. I jumped at the chance, especially in this current crisis, to create some additional online resources that might be helpful in supporting educators in the mad scramble to create online, remote learning environments for their students.

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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. It will take less than an hour for you to complete, and you don't pay a penny.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 20, 2020

by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 with apologies to Rudyard Kipling) If. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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CourseArc

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This book should be on the bookshelves of users of online education and new and experienced instructional designers alike. Michael Allen’s guide features best practices for creating engaging and effective online educational experiences. Instructional Design and Online Learning Job Board from IDOL courses. Communities.

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Mindflash

JANUARY 25, 2012

What was meant to be a program on global HR became a program on teaching, learning, and changing behavior. Just because you’re an expert in a topic doesn’t mean you’re ready to teach it. And the following core components are at the heart of good teaching: 1. There is a phrase among education community: “Telling isn’t teaching.”

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Learning with e's

APRIL 23, 2009

The microblogging tool has obvious potential to be used in formal learning, both in traditional online classroom settings and - through mobile technologies - for mobile learners. Cartoon source Learning with 'e's by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It's important because it shows that assessment drives they way we teach. 2011) Teaching for Quality Learning at University. 2014) Constructive alignment in university teaching. Available online here. Until we change how and what we measure from 19th c productivity norms, education will deliver a 19th c product.'

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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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E-Learning Acupuncture

OCTOBER 18, 2010

This issue has one particular book that is available in PDF format by a Creative Commons License: Accessible elements - Teaching science online and at a distance edited by Dietmar Kennpohl and Lawton Shaw of Athabasca University. I have written some blog posts in the past relating to this subject ( here , here , here ).

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CourseArc

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Based on the idea of open access, OER is the free, immediate, online use of available research articles with re-use rights. CourseArc was built as a tool and team to support organizations as they build online content. But inequities still exist. Take the movement for Open Educational Resources, or OER, for example.

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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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Upside Learning

MARCH 22, 2011

Whatever your philosophy regarding frontal teaching methods and the uses of Smartboards, there’s no denying two facts: Smartboards have become extremely popular tools in educational institutions & are relatively expensive and eat major portions out of our shrinking school budgets. 50 Websites To Download and Read Online Free E-Books.

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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. Lisa Dierker: ldierker@wesleyan.edu.

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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. education learning perception teaching Technology' the new book I''m currently writing. Unported License.

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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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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

See Failure of Creative Commons Licenses and Creative Commons Use in For-Profit Company eLearning? Open Content Potential But There are Challenges This year I spent quite a bit of time looking at where and how open content could get leveraged in different ways. for more on this.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

If they do, then they aren't teaching. They get to know their charges well, finding creative ways to help them to learn optimally, engaging them with methods and activities designed to draw out the best performances. The use of artificial intelligence can even mimic some of the communication needed for large groups who are online.

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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 30, 2019

The age of social technologies has radically transformed the way we live our lives, and that includes how we learn and teach. Every minute online, over 1 million people log on to Facebook, nearly 4 million search enquires are made on Google, 4.5 In the industrialised nations of the world, digital is now default. To be continued.

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Mindflash

DECEMBER 20, 2011

We cannot take people away from their work to teach them something that may or may not be relevant to them. We must create podcasts, job aids, discussions, videos, or online demonstrations and place them all over the workplace where people can use them — on intranets, in CRMs, in e-mail, etc. Embedded Learning. on Tuesday morning?

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Learning with e's

MAY 13, 2017

If, instead of focusing solely on facts and content, teachers also show children how to generate their own content and be wise to the provenance and veracity of the content they discover online, they will give them a fighting chance in a world riddled with fake news and post-truth. Unported License.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 10, 2008

Lesson plan for teaching logical fallacies using political and commercial advertising, plus Monty Python. Let Your Online Learning Community Grow (pdf). 3 Design Principles for Growing Successful Email Listservs and Online Forums in Educational Settings. Working with online learning communities. lead by example.

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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

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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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

MARCH 13, 2014

Flipped classes, Massive Open Online Courses and Mind Technologies. I speak in particular about my own personal pedagogical approach and how my own teaching and learning methods have been developed and influenced over the last few years in a technological rich environment. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Based on cognitive technology, it is a way of creating learning environments and support systems that mimic human tutors or teaching assistants. An example of this is the Hewlett Packard online customer support service. When you connect, you are invited to 'chat' online to a virtual agent. Unported License.

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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

MAY 31, 2019

I wrote that: "The age of social technologies has radically transformed the way we live our lives, and that includes how we learn and teach. A large proportion of younger learners are perpetually online, constantly using their smartphones as gateways into this world. Tapscott, D. London: Atlantic Books. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 14, 2017

She does however, see a future for blended campus learning, where traditional forms of education stand side by side with online learning in all its forms. Online learning,' she states pragmatically, 'will never fully replace brick and mortar institutions, but it is also certain to get better over time' (p 120). Unported License.

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