The notion of learning spaces is gaining traction across all sectors of education. Learning spaces are not only used to describe places we can learn, but can also be representative of the human mind. The only difference other than scale, is that physical learning spaces have their limits, whilst no-one has yet been able to define the boundaries of the human mind and its capabilities. And it is from our minds that the concept of learning spaces arises. There have been many other metaphors used to depict learning. MORE >>

Communities, spaces and pedagogies for the digital age View more presentations from Steve Wheeler. enjoyed a very interesting and stimulating day at Colchester Institute yesterday, where I gave two workshops for staff entitled: Communities, spaces and pedagogies for the digital age. My Personal Learning Network (PLN) on Twitter is growing daily, as I connect with more and more people who have something valuable and interesting to say. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Above is the slide set I used during the presentations. They don't. MORE >>

One of the papers I will be presenting in September is entitled: "Learning Space Mash-up: Toward a Collaborative Personal Learning Environment". It will be presented in the special track on Mashups and Education at this year's Interactive Computer Aided Learning Conference , which as usual, is held in the beautiful Alpine town of Villach, in Austria. Firstly, I will be arguing that Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) will be the way forward for future distributed/blended learning. Image source Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. MORE >>

The IT Practitioners Journal Keyword Search: Major Initiatives Resources Professional Development Community About EDUCAUSE Location: Home » Resources » EDUCAUSE Quarterly (EQ) » EQ Archives » EQ Volume 32 (2009) » Volume 32, Number 1, 2009 » "Where Do You Learn?": Tweeting to Inform Learning Space Development EDUCAUSE Quarterly Magazine, Volume 32, Number 1, 2009 "Where Do You Learn?": Where Do You Learn?": Tweeting to Inform Learning Space Development "Where Do You Learn?": Tweeting to Inform Learning Space Development By Elizabeth J. MORE >>

This entire series on technology affordances was started off by a remark I made during the 5th Plymouth e-Learning Conference , and my subsequent blogpost which I called ' Angels in the architecture '. in which I highlighted the fact that affordances are emergent attributes of the design that are based on perceptions, and we must therefore be careful how we select technologies to support learning. In this part of the series I want to identify two more key sets of affordances that I believe will affect the success of technologies when they are applied to learning. MORE >>