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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

It’s all very well for Apple-owning, organic-buying professionals to cast aspersions, but consider the girl in Pakistan who’s too scared to set foot in a classroom. Sure, the pedagogy may not be perfect, but the alternative is much worse. Universities will flip their classrooms.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

It’s all very well for Apple-owning, organic-buying professionals to cast aspersions, but consider the girl in Pakistan who’s too scared to set foot in a classroom. Sure, the pedagogy may not be perfect, but the alternative is much worse. Universities will flip their classrooms.

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Interview with Terry Anderson

Learning with e's

He is one of the pioneers of online and distance learning, and currently serves as the editor of the influential online open access journal International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning ( IRRODL ). I later was the first director of Contact North, a multi-institutional delivery network in Northern Ontario.

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The Challenges of Executive Education

Training Industry

While digital technology has its own added value as a tool offering greater flexibility, customization and more suitable formats, classroom learning is and will remain necessary. According to Jean Houssaye’s Pedagogical Triangle, the pedagogical space is framed by three essential poles.

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Is e-learning effective?

Clive on Learning

However, e-learning is a medium which opens up the possibility for methods that would otherwise be impractical or impossible to deliver using traditional means. Let’s take two examples: The Massive Open Online Course ( MOOC ) makes it possible for many thousands of students to learn together at the same time.

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Making Connections: Trends in Social Learning

Obsidian Learning

As instructional designers, we’re aware of various theories about how and why people learn. And, of course, we’ve heard about social learning. As mobile technology advances, learning has moved from the classroom and the desktop computer, to the world. Connectivism and Social Learning. With Web 3.0,

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Online Networking in Courses

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

If this works, then check out read this cool post by Christy Tucker reviewing a great presentation at Conference on Distance Learning and Teaching. It isn't that one is good and the other bad, it's recognizing that these constructs shape what we do and thinking about the pedagogy that we can use.

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