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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Designing distance learning courses

Rob Hubbard

Seek and curate some core learning materials that will support the assignments, and encourage students to do the same. 60 people – log in to the social network where the course is hosted. Identify the skills that you are trying to teach to students. Design assignments where students can practice these skills.

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Back to Basics – What is eLearning?

Rob Hubbard

Clive Shepherd in ‘The Really Useful eLearning Instruction Manual’ describes elearning as ‘ when we use computers and the networks to which these are linked, to in some way support the learning process’.

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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.