Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

In a formal sense, distance learning has been a familiar concept since at least 1837, when Sir Isaac Pitman began teaching his shorthand system using typed instruction cards mailed through the universal Penny Postal service to his students across England. The term ''distance education'' may well be anachronistic in the digital age.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 29, 2020

Photo source: JISC I first started studying and then practicing distance education in the 80s. It was then that e-mail began to proliferate, and we began to connect computers together into networks. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Back then we contended with slow modem speeds (remember them?),

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Photo by David Bushell on Geograph In a previous incarnation I was Training Manager for a distance learning project called RATIO back in 1996. RATIO was a three year project funded by the European Union and as a team we were tasked to establish 40 learning centres across the rural areas of South West England.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 20, 2014

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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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

The first keynote was presented to the European Universities Continuing Education Network (EUCEN) at the University of Bergen , Norway and was entitled ‘The Traditional University is Dead – Long live the Distributed University!’ London: Network Continuum. Distance Learning 1(3), 11-17. Wheeler, 2000a). and Vrakking, B.

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Learning with e's

MAY 27, 2013

For many in today''s technology rich, rapidly changing, networked society, personalised learning has acquired more value than anything that can be offered by organisations. Bates (2009) reinforced the view that generic, academic knowledge is no longer enough to meet the needs of the networked society: ". References Bates, T.

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