Rob Hubbard

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Power to the People – 5 Reasons to Embrace a Pull Learning Strategy

Rob Hubbard

If I want to know the best way to solder a joint or set a stone, I’ll Google it, find a video on YouTube or ask my social network of fellow jewellers. We’re so used to self-directed learning these days that we forget we’re even doing it. I’m a trainee silversmith in my spare time.

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Coactivism – A Learning Model

Rob Hubbard

Computers aren’t that smart; so even now, it is difficult to provide meaningful feedback without spending huge sums of money on artificially intelligent systems. So, instead of accessing material from a learning management system, a social network acts as the hub for all the learning content.

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A Decade in eLearning – Then, Now and Next

Rob Hubbard

Learning is social. Because of the way we use social networks in our home lives, there is an increasing expectation that learning should be collaborative and social too. This in combination with social learning can start to generate ‘big data’. Collective intelligence is the natural step after social learning.