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#EDENchat Up close and personal

Learning with e's

I attended the first ever Personal Learning Environments conference in Barcelona, about 5 years ago, and spent three glorious days in the sun, learning from others about the PLE and how it would revolutionise learning. We were all excited about the potential of PLEs, their subversive nature and their inherent informality. Unported License.

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What we don't know

Learning with e's

Why is the sun 400 times larger than the moon and 400 times further away, thus appearing to be exactly the same size and producing perfect solar eclipses every time? Those who actively seek to discover the things they don''t know become great learners. Is there life on other planets? Unported License.

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60 years ago today

Learning with e's

Today I have completed 60 orbits of the sun. I connected it to a printer, wrote a short routine so that it would print out a summary of all the student activities and I stood back to watch what happened next. I have reached a milestone in my life. I don't feel any different physically, but in my mind it has given me cause to reflect.

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Our digital future 4: Pervasive computing

Learning with e's

Now, for those who are unfamiliar with the Reform Symposium, let me explain: It's a 72 hour live web based symposium that follows the sun. New and emerging embedded systems such as iBeacon might perform this kind of activity tracking, but might also be used to enhance communications across campus, and within communities of practice.

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The next steps

Learning with e's

Both of these students, and many of their peers took part in extra-curricular activities such as organising Teachmeets, running the University's student led Education Society , and speaking at events beyond the walls of the university. We have made the latter a tradition now, because the benefits are beyond measure. Unported License.

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The persistence of distance (learning)

Learning with e's

The word ''education'' may also be an exclusive term, connoting formal affiliation with an academic institution, and thus inappropriate as a description for a lot of learning activity. It is now possible to find content on just about any subject under the sun, simply by searching and finding it on the Web. Unported License.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Audio in eLearning: Cultural Differences?

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As Im ramping up in my new job, Im talking with my new Kineo colleagues about everything under the sun. Follow that up with some activities and let me go my merry way. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 You do know that, right?) 4:34 PM Linda Öbergsaid.

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