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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with e's

Social media lend themselves naturally to support learning through discussions, collaboration and sharing. They are vital components of the web, and social media are important for education - because learning is essentially social and personal. A key attraction of these technologies is that they are inherently participatory.

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The EDEN Interviews: Frans Mäyrä

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Image from Pixabay Below is the final video interview I did with keynote speakers at the 2017 Annual EDEN Conference, held in Jonkoping, Sweden. Frans is Professor of Interactive Media at the University of Tampere in Finland, and his research interests focus on the topic for the conversation - Ludic literacy. Unported License.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

And the system itself is growing with sites like Social Media Informer. See Failure of Creative Commons Licenses and Creative Commons Use in For-Profit Company eLearning? I’m still struggling a little bit with it, but I know there’s going to be a lot going on around it. Top eLearning Sites?

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Making a splash!

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Image by Craig Whitehead on Unsplash While in conversation last week at the EDEN annual conference in Bruges, my good friend Marci Powell told me about a brilliant resource called Unsplash. by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Being there

Learning with e's

When I was conducting the research for my research thesis (Wheeler, 2007), I used this principle to differentiate between the pedagogical power of four modes of communication: face to face (the richest), video conference, telephone, and e-mail (the poorest). Wheeler, S. ALT-J , 15(2), 103-117. Unported License.

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12 tips for great speaking

Learning with e's

Photo by Tup Wanders on Flickr In my previous post , I reflected on 18 years of keynote speaking in academic conferences. If you are lucky enough to be invited to address an audience of your peers at a conference, a lot will depend on what you say and the manner in which you say it. In nearly two decades, I guess you learn quite a lot.

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Disruptive education

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Earlier today at the EDEN Annual Conference at the University of Oslo, I interviewed June Breivik. This post is mirrored on the official EDEN Conference blog Disruptive education by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.