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Is the pedagogy of MOOCs flawed?

E-Learning Provocateur

Almost immediately after I uploaded this preview to YouTube, someone on Twitter politely challenged me. This is a question that I tackle in my Udemy course The Wide World of MOOCs. She took umbrage to my assertion that MOOCs are pedagogically richer than “regular” online courses.

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Connected pedagogy: Social networks

Learning with e's

Global social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter support various forms of communication and sharing actions that were previously unavailable. Connected pedagogy: Social networks by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Surowiecki, J.

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Mobile Learning - No Pedagogy Required!

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

Most of the conversations around those posts occur in other places other than the blog, like Twitter, or Google+, or LinkedIn, etc. Pedagogy is defined (according to a quick Googling) as a method or practice of teaching. In either case, no academic understanding of pedagogy is required.despite our best efforts to make it so.

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Twitter in the classroom

Learning with e's

Today I had an interesting exchange of views on Twitter. about Twitter. I mentioned that I strongly encourage the use of Twitter in my classes. No, you can be assured that if I use any technology with my students, it is for a clearly thought through, and logical reason that supports good pedagogy. Unported License.

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Bear pit pedagogy

Learning with e's

My colleague Peter Yeomans (AKA @ethinking on Twitter) says we create the 'bear pits' for our students. Image source Bear pit pedagogy by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Communities, spaces and pedagogies for the digital age

Learning with e's

Communities, spaces and pedagogies for the digital age View more presentations from Steve Wheeler. I 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. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Moving from Teacher to Facilitator | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

It’s in your mind One of the pioneers of adult learning theory, Malcom Knowles , explored the role of adult education and facilitation (andragogy) versus the traditional style of teaching children (pedagogy). Properly d.