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Digital capabilities

Learning with e's

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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Daily Bookmarks 09/13/2008

Experiencing eLearning

TravelinEdMan: The Price of an 8 Pack of Learning Theory Lectures? Set of 8 video lectures on learning theories from Curt Bonk at IU. The post says these can be used by any instructor teaching a course, although there isn’t a specific CC license on them. Just a Lot of Bonk!

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My Favorite Things: Tools and Tips to Facilitate Content.

Dashe & Thomson

Remember, Visio is not a standard part of MS Office and requires a separate license (and it’s expensive). In my free time, I enjoy reading, medical lectures, belly dancing and regular visits to my massage therapist. So, paperwork is filled out, tech support gets involved, and a few days later I can finally create a flow chart.

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My Favorite Things: Tools and Tips to Facilitate Content Development

Dashe & Thomson

Remember, Visio is not a standard part of MS Office and requires a separate license (and it’s expensive). In my free time, I enjoy reading, medical lectures, belly dancing and regular visits to my massage therapist. So, paperwork is filled out, tech support gets involved, and a few days later I can finally create a flow chart.

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Donald. Duck!

Learning with e's

What really rankled though with many of those present (and some of those watching via Elluminate) was his critique that academics do not question learning theories, not are they suffiently critical of them. He cited Donald Bligh's seminal book 'What's the use of lectures?', Unported License. Unported License.

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Shifting sands

Learning with e's

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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Active learning spaces

Learning with e's

As a response to the problems of learning in homogenised, regimented environments such as classrooms and lecture halls, Technology Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) came into being. A number of psychological and social learning theories can be applied to explain the transformative potential of this approach.