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Supporting online learners

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If you're new to online teaching, or are revisiting it, do consider spending an hour of your time to browse through the ideas in this module. Supporting Online Learners by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning as dialogue

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This passive, reductionist explanation of learning prompted a number of pedagogical strategies, including reinforcement of behaviour, punishment and reward, and the introduction of teaching machines with their instructional texts, structured assessment of learning and remedial loops. Unported License.

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Learning first, technology second

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In mathematics, I have seen interactive whiteboards used very effectively to teach number bonds and floor robots can be used successfully to teach geometry and algorithms. Sometimes, the technology does get in the way of learning and teaching. Unported License. But that is the problem.

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Networked pedagogy

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Differentials between academic practices, and the variety of roles we adopt within communities of practice and learning. The impact of traditional education on contemporary pedagogical practices. Unported License. Flipped classes, Massive Open Online Courses and Mind Technologies.

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Seriously.

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, the rewards are that your ideas are quickly ''out there'' in public, and can be discussed, built upon, challenged and otherwise explored by your professional peers, your community of practice. It gives others in your wider community of practice a clearer view of who you are, what you do, and most importantly, what you think.

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5 of the best

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This certainly gives me more ideas for blog posts over the next year, and leaves me with hope that blogging is still a powerful and effective means of conveying ideas, engaging communities of practice and sharing resources. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Content is a tyrant.

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we will both advance the development of our field and contribute to the improvement of teaching and learning.' Yet connecting into a community of practice can work as a double edged sword. As a society, and within our communities of practice, we need to be able to discern the good content from the bad content.