Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Photo from Wikimedia Commons Predictably, the ideas that dominated at Learning Technologies 2019 (#LT19uk) were mostly on new and emerging technologies. Supporting learning in organisations through these simple yet effective ideas really does help to transform the way people work. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The event also incorporates Learning Technologies Germany, and I was invited to present a spotlight session on Day 2 with the above title (see link below). We will also examine the role new technology can play in promoting effective L&D and critically evaluate practices that are rooted in traditional learning/training environments.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 15, 2014

One of the best questions I fielded was ''How have learning methods evolved over the past 10 years? Open views on learning by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 28, 2018

Thousands of teachers from all sectors descended on the Excel Centre last week to view the latest in learning technology, hear from key speakers in the field of education, and of course, to connect and reconnect with others of like mind. 5) Children learn to work in teams and to collaborate with each other. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Increasingly, the effect of the global connected mind will emerge as a social phenomenon. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. collective mind cyborgs education future global connections hive mind learning network nation research social learning Technology' Unported License.

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ATD Learning Technologies

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Augmented reality takes a view of a real environment and augments it with additional information or effects. What is Creative Commons? Creative Commons is a type of copyright license wherein the creator of the content still retains the rights but allows others to use it free of charge with certain stipulations.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 5, 2017

It kicked off after I watched a video of some teachers at Geelong College in Australia, talking about their definitions of learning. As 2016 was my 40th year working in educational technology, I also started another series of posts called #40years (7 posts), which traced the history of learning technology from 1975 to the present day.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Futurist Gerd Leonhard speaking at Learning Technologies 2013 Listening to media futurist Gerd Leonhard speaking at the recent Learning Technologies Conference in London was both engaging and thought provoking. Leonhard postulated that work and learning no longer need to be location (or even time) dependent.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Like any other part of the training and skills sector, the construction industry depends upon the reliable and effective training of well qualified and competent individuals. The construction training team Unitec (pictured) are particularly savvy and ahead of the field when it comes to the application of learning technology.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Photo by Bruce Warrington Ten years ago, in 2009, I published an edited volume entitled 'Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures' which was a compendium of papers written by leading theorists and practitioners in the field of learning technology. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. New York: The Free Press.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

In this post, I discuss change management and outline some of my recommendations for the adoption of new practices and technologies. The value added potential of new technologies becomes the unique selling point, including its capability to change or challenge current provision. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 30, 2015

Technology, just like any other set of tools, is there to help us all to do the job better, smarter, more effectively. Just don''t ever make it appear to be special - the most effective educational technologies fade into the background as learning, and the student, take centre stage. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 5, 2013

We have a bewildering array of digital media at our fingertips, but to use these tools effectively takes a lot of practice, critical thinking and immersion in the culture before we can claim to be literate in them. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. As ever, your comments are most welcome in the comments box below.

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Learning with e's

JULY 16, 2015

Can we apply this also to corporate learning? Do companies use these technologies, and how? I can give you at least one example: Just recently I was speaking at a conference in London (Learning Technologies). Are the new learning technologies just a new way to learn for digital natives or also for older people?

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TechSmith Camtasia

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Screencasts are an effective teaching tool that offer instructors greater versatility in developing lesson plans. 1 Screencasts can be designed to let students personalize their learning and highlight important information as they proceed at their own pace. Screencast videos can be a very effective learning technique.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 17, 2011

I met a lot of smart people, and engaged in some very valuable conversations about learning, technology, culture and life in general. Max Woodtli was more pedagogical in his focus, talking about the most effective approaches to securing good learning outcomes. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 26, 2013

Learning technology is a fast moving topic. And yet the practice still persists, either because managers consider it to be cost effective, or they don''t know that there are better, more effective ways to present digital learning. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

I will still also continue to write for professional journals and magazines such as Learning Technologies. If we continue to allow knowledge to be commoditised to such an extent that it is only available to the privileged few who can afford it, we are in effect, perpetuating an unjust society. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 29, 2011

What we don't know much about (but we can guess) is what technologies are just around the corner, waiting to invade the classroom. What we certainly don't know is what effects new technology will have on learning, on our professional practice, on our daily lives. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

I'm going to talk about adopting open access journal publishing as the best way forward for widespread and effective publication of research, and I'm going to champion open scholarship. Tim flies by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Let's see how that will be received.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

More formally, distance education has existed since the early, primitive but quite effective correspondence courses of Sir Isaac Pitman , who used the developing technology of the time, the uniform penny postal service to support his endeavours. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

A Tale of Two Keynotes We live in tumultuous times where change is constant and disruptive and where technologies are increasingly pervasive throughout society. Such change and disruption has been in the background of my thinking about learning technology for the past decade. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 11, 2015

Among other things, Jim Groom is Director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies and adjunct professor at the University of Mary Washington, USA. He is nicknamed the 'Reverend' (oh the irony), and is a purveyor of American pop culture, experimental educational technology and out-of-left-field philosophy.

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Learning with e's

MAY 13, 2015

When 3D printer technology eventually attains the speed of the Star Trek replicator, where objects appear instantly, will this effect be lost? Photo by Jonathan Juursema on Wikimedia Commons When will my prints appear? Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. I'm glad we're thinking along the same lines!

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TechSmith Camtasia

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Screencasts are an effective teaching tool that offers instructors greater versatility in developing lesson plans. 1 Screencasts can be designed to let students personalize their learning and highlight important information as they proceed at their own pace. Screencast videos can be a very effective learning technique.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 9, 2011

You have been working in learning technology for over 35 years. Does the evolution of learning still hold surprises for you? Every day I am surprised because new things are coming to me and I discover new technologies or I learn about new software. It never ever ceases to amaze me.

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ATD Learning Technologies

MARCH 1, 2016

An LMS can have a rating system, a recommendation engine, and effective search capabilities to help your learners find the right content. Some LMSs allow users to generate and post their own content, allowing for peer-to-peer learning. Asking how long it takes to create e-learning is a lot like asking how much a car costs.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 19, 2011

Steve Wheeler, Associate Professor of Learning Technology at the University of Plymouth, will give a public keynote on February 2 at the LEARNTEC Bildungsforum, in Karlsruhe, Germany. Technologies in Learning' is very close to the core of his professional interests and endeavours. Smartphones are disruptive.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 22, 2012

‘May you live in interesting times’ (Old Chinese curse) We live in tumultuous times where change is constant and disruptive and where technologies are increasingly pervasive throughout society. Such change and disruption has been in the background of my thinking about learning technology for the past decade. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 24, 2010

And how effective were they given the constraints imposed upon them by their political masters? I may be wrong, but I think there are enough learning technology experts out there who are connected enough to join forces and provide advice for schools when they need it. It leaves us asking just how much was Becta allowed to do?

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The availability of cost-effective resources to facilitate wide collaboration (including open source software that enables wikis, discussion groups, chat and even web conferencing) presents the chance for organizations to reconsider the effectiveness of the performance support being offered to their people. Here's what came up.

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Learning with e's

JULY 30, 2019

The extent to which each academic responds to these disruptive changes will determine how effective they will be in facilitating learning amongst a generation of students that is tech-savvy, digitally literate and determined to keep online and in connection wherever and whenever they can. What are your views? Unported License.

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Learning Visions

MAY 12, 2009

Weve taken this up before and many of us IDs know the strategies for using audio most effectively by now. I am aware of others in Australia and in the US interested in seeing audio as a transformative learning technology. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0

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E-Learning Acupuncture

OCTOBER 30, 2007

They could effectively used as ‘pre-labs’ to prepare students for a real life lab. It’s an Open Learning Initiative, which is licensed under a Creative Commons License. These interactive simulations begin to show how some conventional biology labs take place in real life. Supplements.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 29, 2007

(David) There will be 9x more smart phones in 2011 than there are today (PDAs, blackberries) M-Learning supports best practices in pedagogy (being able to reinforce content) Just-in-time vs. formal learning From mobile consumer to mobile producer Its a key issue to be able to integrate with many back-end business systems. Works for me.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Jay Cross, the man who coined the term ‘elearning’, believes the web is revolutionising the way we learn. Not through the kind of elearning of the 1990s but via the explosion of online communities which effectively democratise the way we learn. Mike Levy interviews the guru of new learning approaches.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Jay Cross, the man who coined the term ‘elearning’, believes the web is revolutionising the way we learn. Not through the kind of elearning of the 1990s but via the explosion of online communities which effectively democratise the way we learn. Mike Levy interviews the guru of new learning approaches.

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