Learning with e's

JULY 12, 2017

It's safe to claim that much of higher education is firmly rooted in the past , reflecting colonial history, traditional values and 20th (or even 19th) Century pedagogies. This might be seen as a generalisation, because there are some pockets of innovative pedagogy to be found in every large education institution. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

It's called the eXSpace and will be a showcase for a range of new and emerging technologies, a place to study new pedagogies and a sandpit to try out new ideas and methods. In effect, the boards have been used as substitutes for the old dry wipe boards and projection screens. Consider using games and quizzes. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 8, 2020

Have you ever wondered how information and communication technology (ICT) can be effectively deployed in schools? The MIS featured in this post is Integris , designed by RM Education. Many ICT tools and technologies tend to be somewhat difficult to use, often due to poor design. This article focuses on the latter.

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CourseArc

APRIL 19, 2017

Instructional designers are guided by these same types of parameters when ensuring their courses meet specific learning objectives. Let’s look at the process of designing good learning objectives, so you can build the various elements of your course or training in service of a clear purpose with measurable outcomes.

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Learning with e's

JULY 8, 2016

This idea connects with my own recent comments on transliteracy - the ability to communicate ideas equally effectively, no matter what tools or technologies you use. The technology should be there to be used as an additional, enhanced aspect of learning, not as a substitute for good pedagogy. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 4, 2018

Some IWBs have runners that enable height adjustment, and a projector arm incorporated into the design to obviate the need for continual recalibration. Thirdly, teachers need time to tinker, experiment and test out new ideas and new pedagogies. For smaller children, the adjustability of a screen to varying heights is also important.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 26, 2019

As politely as I could, I explained to him that making his students sit through a full 90 minutes of video was not particularly good pedagogy. Video seems to be deeply embedded into the toolkit of educators, because it can be a powerful medium, but whether it is used effectively is open to debate. Cognitive Science 12, 257-285.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 13, 2017

I saw the latest SMART interactive whiteboards on display at the BETT Show in London in January and I was particularly enamoured by two key advances in their design. This has the potential, if used effectively, to connect students, teachers, and devices together. One of those units will be located within the eXSpace. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Image from Wikimedia Commons I have argued for a while that the success of digital learning environments such as the LMS ( Learning Management System ) is based on a fine balance. This is the homeostasis between user experience and institutional design. You probably know the story of the architect who was asked to design a university.

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CourseArc

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

This is more effective than cramming the entire arc of a lesson into one nonstop session. CourseArc was designed to put the power of rich media learning at your fingertips. Image of hourglass by Alexander Boden via Flickr Creative Commons License. How Can CourseArc Help?

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In small groups they were asked to design and construct a Lego robot , and then program it to race around a circuit, with a prize for the winners! Do aerodynamics in the design make any difference? This is not as easy as it sounds. There are a myriad of problems to solve. Do larger wheels have more speed that smaller ones?

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 10, 2016

A total of 27 quantitative studies on the use of tablets in schools dating from 2010 were analysed and the major finding was that the tools are most effective when used in student centred learning, rather than within teacher controlled environments (Tamim et al, 2015a). Commonwealth of Learning: Burnaby. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The schools cling more and more stubbornly to their mistaken idea that education and teaching are industrial processes, to be designed and planned from above in the minutest detail and then imposed on passive teachers and their even more passive students." They give a child a strong sense of cause and effect, of one thing leading to another.

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Learning with e's

MAY 13, 2015

Architects, designers, food technologists and also the military, are discovering the benefits of creating 3D versions of reality. Is there an emerging 3D pedagogy ? When 3D printer technology eventually attains the speed of the Star Trek replicator, where objects appear instantly, will this effect be lost? Unported License.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 19, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, January 19, 2009 Instructional Design: Whats in a name? I stumbled across this on a writers blog today: "Officially, I’m now an Instructional Designer. Koreen Olbrish asks "Is Instructional Design Dead?"

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

This is sometimes referred to pejoratively as 'shovelware' in academic circles, because course designers and lecturers can't seem to break out of the traditional mode of thinking about teaching, and simply shovel their content across into digital format. The third concerns the nature of the lecture itself. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 23, 2015

A battle of words and ideals is raging about which is the most effective, and indeed, the most appropriate approach to adopt for the needs of today''s society. The chart above (my design), comes courtesy of Wingra School in Madison, Wisconsin is derived from the work of a number of educational theorists. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 28, 2013

Square buildings are easier to design and cheaper to build. Situating learning in rectangular spaces naturally promotes some forms of pedagogy at the expense of others. Change it again, and face the participants outwards instead, and what is the effect? Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Learning with e's

JULY 2, 2018

Affordance was a term introduced by psychologist James Gibson to describe all of the potential applications a user might perceive from the (visual) design features of tools. Essentially, the design of the technology can either constrain or enable the actions of users, so what you see is what you do. A critical review of the literature.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 14, 2012

In the first phase, known as survival , teachers struggle to define what they wish to achieve with the new technology, and attempt to learn how to use it effectively to support pedagogy. This suggests that the survival phase could be shortened if forethought went into the design of learning, before technology was procured.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In my previous post I wrote that even though research shows lectures to be less than effective in helping students to learn, they still persist in higher education. One of the constraints of the lecture theatre is its design. The key question is: What can replace the lecture? kind of instruction can work at a superficial level.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Content is still very much king in schools, because 'content as curriculum' is easy and cost effective to deliver, and that is what most governments require and impose. My 16 year old son has just embarked on training to become a games designer. I think it's about time we reconsidered the way curricula in schools are presented.

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CourseArc

MARCH 8, 2017

So, what are the best and most effective practices to consider during data visualization? Mastering data visualization tools is just part of your path to effectively using data. Image: “ I Heart Graphs ” by Ken Kuchih via Flickr Creative Commons License. Let’s take a look at just a few of them.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Technology needs relevant pedagogical actions to be wholly effective. It's clear to me, watching the development of technology from my early days in the 1970s, it has developed from a set of tools that were designed to support the teacher, to a range of tools that enable everyone to learn. Users multiplied as the word got around.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 8, 2017

Our teamwork is smooth, neat and effective through the use of sharing files, planning and working collaboratively on documents. We now have a 3D printer and are working on projects with our oldest year group (year 4) to design and make their own objects. Everything is connected. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Over time, my son has learnt to manage and surmount the challenges his autism presents, and now, aged 20, he is in his first year at Plymouth University, studying on a degree programme in computer graphics and games design. He's doing very well. It had been conducted while the school was experiencing disruption from building works.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. The training doesnt teach what the participants want or need (failure to consult with actual learners while designing the program). Sure experience is a great teacher but organizations are about efficiency and effectiveness.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 29, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Design Considerations (Clark) How do you redesign the way that you design? Instead, take elements (intro, practice, exit) -- and think about how you can reuse them in creative ways. The iPhone (Brent -- of course!)

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Learning with e's

APRIL 12, 2014

Why, for example are lecture halls designed with fixed chairs in rows and tiers, thus limiting student interaction? Are today''s lecture halls designed with enough power sockets within easy reach? This is misplaced ICT and such resources could be deployed more effectively. Unported License.

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CourseArc

APRIL 5, 2017

If you have designed and administered successful in-person, Instructor-Led Training (ILT) modules, you may want to convert those classes into online courses to reach a wider audience. Effectively transferring your in-person courses to an online format requires a deliberate strategy, planning, and execution. Think About Inventory.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

We flounder and stumble as we try to navigate a plethora of educational theories and we become bogged down in prescribed institutional pedagogies, providing no more than glimpses of true education for our students. by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Salomon, an educational psychologist from Israel, was interested in studying the effects of technology on cognition and learning. He studied the sociological effects of new and emerging technologies but he had much to say about how these might be applied to improve formal education spaces. Unported License.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Masters degree in Instructional Systems Design Process 10 years at Intel working in tools. Point of today’s conversation: talking training, design and development if a marketing person were doing it. Or a game developer.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 16, 2015

None of this happens in an LMS (or VLE), in fact, that systematic design of that system is anathema to all of these crucial elements of educating in the digital era. What is on your horizon for new technology, new ways of learning and new pedagogies? That said, I had to breakup with EDUPUNK in 2010 because it wasn''t fun any more.

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