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Supporting online learners

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Photo by Steve Wheeler I have just published a third module in my series on digital learning for the ZilLearn platform. 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. It's called Supporting Online Learners and the link is here.

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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. There is nothing wrong with any of these approaches, provided they don''t get in the way of good pedagogy. But that is the problem. But that is the problem.

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5 of the best

Learning with e's

It can be a thorny topic and a bone of contention for any number of reasons, but continues to absorb most of the oxygen in the debate about what constitutes good pedagogy. Routine and schedule can be a huge barrier to new ideas, and creative pedagogy is often stifled due to lack of time or support. Unported License.

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Shifting sands

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Allow me elaborate: Many of our pedagogical theories and much of our practice in higher education is grounded in, and has been derived from, a pre-digital era, when the lecturer or professor was central to the process of education, and where the classroom was the predominant place for learning to take place. Academic roles are changing.

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Back to ‘what’ Normal? #AulaCon

Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

Don’t fixate on how to teach, we should be fixated on the impact of the teaching. Technology: loss of community exposed in Zoom, what is the role of technology and pedagogy? – What about coming back to the classroom, what to retain from pandemic teaching? ?- Focus on feedback, focus on impact, focus on community.

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Making the future of education

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The methods we use to try to align school and university teaching with the demands of contemporary society will shape the extent to which we succeed. You have probably noticed at this point just how similar this approach to learning is to work based learning practices. Unported License.