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3 things you should know about Edupunk

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Photo by Steve Wheeler 3 things you should know about Edupunk by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Personal Learning Environment MLE rhizomatic learning VLE PLE edubusiness education Edupunk learning autodidacticism bricolage'

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Learning first, technology second

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Let me give you an example: Many schools, colleges and universities have by now implemented a managed learning environment (MLE) sometimes referred to as a virtual learning environment (VLE) or Learning Management System (LMS). Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Games for girls

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Check out this little gem from Dan Kennedy on the VLE/PLE debate. The games we play Photo courtesy of U.S. Navy Games for girls by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. It''s also very motivating for them. Read the complete article at this link.

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

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Students ‘pimp’ their pages, adding colour and textures, favourite images, links to their favourite websites, including mashups to video sharing sites such as YouTube and photo sites such as Flickr. Unported License. Connecting Distance Learners and Their Mentors Using Blogs: The MentorBlog Project.

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7 ways to support learner-teacher interaction

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3) Your Managed Learning Environment (or VLE) - in whatever flavour your organisation has chosen - is a walled garden that allows conversations to be protected from outside eyes. However, bear in mind that most VLEs have online discussion threads that all of the group can see and read. Unported License.

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Design for life

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The user interface on most VLE/LMS technologies is often too complex for students, who spend much more time trying to navigate and discover content than they do actually learning that content. Unported License. If a design is expected, students will spend little time figuring out how to use the object.

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Good morning Barcelona!! Jim Groom at #EDEN15

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There was a serious underpinning philosophy, where students gain a personal space on the web which they can control, and which is the antithesis of the institutional VLE/LMS. Photo by Steve Wheeler Good morning Barcelona!! Unported License. However, all of this wasn't just fun for fun sake. Cue applause.

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