Learning with e's

MARCH 1, 2016

Previous posts in this series tracked the development of educational technology over 40 years. I first started working in the field of educational technology in January 1976, at a time when technology was used more for teaching than it was for learning. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Photo by Sergey Zolkin on unsplash Many educators are now investigating how online technologies can improve, extend or enrich teaching and learning experiences. Some schools have begun to experiment, and a few are well down the road to adopting and using online education as a viable supplement, or even replacement for face to face teaching.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 13, 2013

June, who is at the Norwegian Business School will be presenting a keynote speech tomorrow at the event on ''Disruptive Education.'' She has some strong views on how education needs to be changed, and believes that disruption is necessary to challenge the current paradigms of teaching in higher education. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 12, 2020

It appears then that face-to-face education, at least in the short term, is going to be imposed due to the infection risks. As teachers come to terms with what this means, many will turn to tried and trusted methods of education that involve distancing. Share ideas using social media and other online discussion forums.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 1, 2014

Ivan Illich hoped for a time when the transmission model of education, or ''funnels'', would be replaced by ''educational webs'' - his notion of what we now recognise as social networks. I wrote a post about the contrast between educational funnels and webs in 2011. He saw technology as one means of transformation for education.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Are you a connected educator? Are you a teacher who has managed to harness the power of social media to connect with peers and experts around the globe? Steven Anderson (@web20classroom) has a lot to say about the connected educator. Coming hand in hand with these connections is a whole new culture of learning and teaching.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 22, 2016

Since then, several have asked me what I mean by remix culture, and how it applies to education. In the digital age, where many have access to the participatory web such as social media, it is easier than ever to remix and mashup content. Remixing is a creative process. There are many educational applications for remix.

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CourseArc

JANUARY 12, 2022

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the online learning spotlight shone brightly on K-12 and higher education. Rightfully so, as school systems and higher education institutions across the world were scrambling to find a better online learning solution, or enhance what they already had.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

From cinema, through to television, the experience of media was defined by an amalgamation of sound and vision. Toward the end of the last century, the Web began to emerge as the convergent point for media. The most cited example is Minecraft, which has been used successfully in both primary and secondary education in many countries.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

From cinema, through to television, the experience of media was defined by an amalgamation of sound and vision. Toward the end of the last century, the Web began to emerge as the convergent point for media. The most cited example is Minecraft, which has been used successfully in both primary and secondary education in many countries.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

In effect, through the use of social media and telecommunication technologies, these teachers are becoming global educators. I consider myself a global educator and have tried to articulate my ideas on why this is a different role to traditional teaching. Unported License.

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CourseArc

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Why an Open Educational Resources Model Means More Opportunities for All Learners. Like many inside and outside the education system in the United States and globally, the cry for equity has been bellowed for years. Take the movement for Open Educational Resources, or OER, for example. OER for Precedent. Our system is broken.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

This is a continuation from yesterday''s post on changing roles , disruptive innovation and the survival of higher education. Wikis, blogs and podcasts : a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education. BMC Medical Education 6, 41. O''Reilly Media. or the ‘social web’.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 15, 2019

I attended an event in Utrecht, in the Netherlands way back in 2007, at around the time that social media was emerging as a serious learning technology. I firmly believe that educators, as far as possible, should share their content as widely and feely as possible. million views). Is sharing caring? Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 29, 2020

Photo source: Publicdomainpictures Ever wondered how we can overcome feelings of loneliness and disconnect in distance education? It's a question that online educators have been grappling with for a long time. When you're online, or using your smartphone to communicate, do you ever feel 'connected' to the person at the other end?

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CourseArc

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As a result, educators must overcome a condition that plagues every student: the forgetting curve. Use multiple forms of media to introduce and reinforce new concepts , which provide numerous ways for a student to recall and “re-remember” the information later. The Forgetting Curve in Action.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 12, 2013

The media and education worlds have been buzzing for the last few weeks over the ground breaking work of a quiet, unassuming Indian-born professor. He is now Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University, in the North East of England. This is Minimally Invasive Education. Like in a Physics experiment.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 28, 2019

All of the links are below, courtesy of the Empower Higher Education events team at EADTU (European Association for Distance Teaching Universities). The second, two days later was a panel discussion focused on the present day practices and the future of blended learning. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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CourseArc

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Instructional design is the thoughtful application of design aspects — like color theory, typography, and user experience — to create educational resources. This book should be on the bookshelves of users of online education and new and experienced instructional designers alike. Julie Dirksen’s Design for How People Learn.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 17, 2012

In yesterday's blogpost Separation and connection I talked about the nature of social media and their capability to amplify human contact. Specifically, I made the point that Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) are enabled and strengthened when we make connections through social media tools. our use of social media actually engages.'

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Learning with e's

MARCH 30, 2019

Here's a wonderful video montage of the Open Education in a Digital Age event that took place recently in Romania. Openness in the Digital Age 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 with e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

One of my earliest jobs back in the 1980s was managing the educational technology and learning resources for several nurse education centres across the South West of England. Exploring medical technologies by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

So what will be the future of higher education, and how will it survive against this hostile backdrop? In May 2000, I was invited to present two keynote speeches about the role technology would play in the future of higher education. Online Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. Continued tomorrow References Bach, S.,

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Learning with e's

JUNE 14, 2020

All forms of education require learners to engage, but when teachers and their students are separated by geographical distance, the challenges increase. Asynchronous communication is time-shifted - e-mail, text messages and standard mail (correspondence courses were one of the first forms of distance education). Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 12, 2018

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. Students as 'designers of games' is a particularly interesting facet of this approach to higher education. It features a conversation with Professor Frans Mäyrä.

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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. Social media and smart phones were still a few years away, so we made do with what was available. Back then we contended with slow modem speeds (remember them?), fixed line telephones, stand-alone computers and very small memory storage.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 4, 2019

I posed some questions for educators to address, and proposed that much of our technology in recent years has been used to connect and to communicate. From the telegraph, through the telephone and radio and television, to 21st Century satellites, smartphones, the Internet and social media, all were designed to communicate. Wheeler, S.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

This is a continuation from yesterday''s blog post on changing times and the survival of higher education. Below are four reasons why the Social Web and associated media are changing higher education. British Journal of Educational Technology , 39(6), 987-995. Digital Learning: Repurposing Education. Wheeler, S.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Before networked computers, we transferred media and content to other systems using disks, and we printed out our work for physical mailing to recipients. For many it was impossible to see it being used for anything more than admin, and as an application for education, it was out of the question. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 24, 2012

There has been a lot of discussion recently about the personalisation of education. The sticking point is that most education is publicly funded, the state has a major stake in how it's conducted, and therefore dictates what should be taught in schools. This is universal education, and if one size does not fit all.

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Learning with e's

JULY 11, 2013

I was a little surprised because I had assumed that anyone who was going to use Twitter was probably on board and already familiar with the social media tool. education social media learning Twitter professional development PLN' Not so of course, as Wayne pointed out to me. Unported License.

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learnWorlds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

And while it may be obvious that your course should offer highly educational and engaging content with a balance between video and text, what about the audio? What is the Best Music for Educational Videos? What is the Best Music for Educational Videos? Content is king. This is true for your online course as well.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Reading Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education by Anya Kamenetz has been fascinating. Her key message is simple - that education needs to change to make it more accessible to those who want to, but cannot afford to enter into full time higher education. High ideals indeed. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 22, 2019

As with any other social media platform, there are useful devices such as trending search notifications, API/developer sections and licensing advice, and there are special zones where you can find wallpaper or slide background images. For educators, this is a particularly useful resource, which I for one, will return to time and time again.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 21, 2014

My Personal Learning Network (PLN) is the vehicle that carries me to this learning, and social media is the highway that enables me to get there. Photo by Ed323 on Wikimedia Commons A little more conversation 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 8, 2010

There has been a lot of discussion recently about the personalisation of education. The sticking point is that most education is publicly funded, the state has a major stake in how it's conducted, and therefore dictates what should be taught in schools. This is universal education, and if one size does not fit all.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

As an educator, what tool or technology would you never be without in the classroom or learning space? This means sitting down and relinquishing control of the screen to them, something some educators may find uncomfortable. Me with an incredible weapon What is your weapon of choice? For me, it is quite simple. Unported License.

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