CourseArc

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Guide to e-Learning: Building Interactive, Fun, and Effective Learning Programs for Any Company (by Michael Allen) . Michael Allen’s guide features best practices for creating engaging and effective online educational experiences. CourseArc was built as a tool and team to support organizations as they build online content.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 27, 2020

Schools all over the world have remained open (even though they are officially 'closed'), to provide care and support for the children of essential workers, and also to continue to offer students everywhere remote learning opportunities. It's not easy. I salute educators everywhere. Technology will not replace you. You will always be needed.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 15, 2020

Children need a great deal of support throughout their learning journey. Although grades matter, more important still is the feedback students receive on their work and performance, and the interventions that teachers can make to support those they see struggling. et al (2002) Relationships between class size and teaching.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

iPad (and iPhone) are Much More Useful Than I Expected I didn’t actually think that I would care about the iPad except as a tool for training and performance support in environments like retail and restaurants where it’s always been an issue having access to machines. Performance Support in 2015 What Makes an LMS Easy to Use?

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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? Jackie Mulock, Business Manager at Marner Primary School , London said: "The move from our own system to RM Integris was seamless and happened virtually overnight, thanks to the support of RM Education and our local authority.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 3, 2018

On now to a few colleagues who provide very useful services around technology in education: First up is educator Richard Byrne, whose site FreeTech4Teachers offers a prolific and regularly updated briefing on just about every new teaching and learning app and device as it becomes available. Unported License.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 22, 2011

Whatever your philosophy regarding frontal teaching methods and the uses of Smartboards, there’s no denying two facts: Smartboards have become extremely popular tools in educational institutions & are relatively expensive and eat major portions out of our shrinking school budgets. 30+ Places To Find Creative Commons Media.

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Learning with e's

MAY 31, 2018

For those who object to my use of the term '21st Century', consider that many schools still teach from a 20th Century curriculum, and need to be reminded that each and every child in school today was born in this century, while every existing teacher was born and educated in the last century. We are all in this together. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 7, 2014

Where once, experts had a monopoly on knowledge and expertise, now anyone it seems can access content that will teach them. This is autodidacticism - teaching yourself. Choose any subject, whether it be baking a sponge cake, playing blues guitar, or animal husbandry, and you will find dozens of YouTube videos that will teach you.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 24, 2014

The work of Harvard University professor Eric Mazur supports this approach, because, as he says - instruction is easier than assimilation, and advocated coaching rather than lecturing as early as the 1990s. We learn by teaching. Ask students to peer-teach. This is not new of course. Give your students a problem to solve.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 23, 2020

Teachers too are less localised, often working and teaching in places that extend beyond traditional classroom boundaries. Recent research carried out by C3 Education and RM Education with a sample of 575 teachers across England revealed that technology effectiveness was uppermost in teacher perception (Connor, 2019).

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Over the next two weeks I''m in New Zealand, doing a series of keynote presentations to teachers on the future of education and technology supported learning. The mLearn tour is sponsored by a company called Telco Technology Services who specialise in supporting teachers in New Zealand schools with technology training and provision.

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Learning with e's

MAY 31, 2019

I wrote that: "The age of social technologies has radically transformed the way we live our lives, and that includes how we learn and teach. Global social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter support various forms of communication and sharing actions that were previously unavailable. Tapscott, D. London: Atlantic Books.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 31, 2016

In a recent blog post, Antonio Teixera , President of EDEN wrote: "By just adding 21st century technologies to 20th century teaching practices we’ll only be diluting the effectiveness of teaching." We will fail if we attempt to use new tools while we teach in the same the old ways. He's right. These are initial thoughts.

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Learning with e's

JULY 26, 2017

And yet, as I developed my career around research, teaching and innovation, I did become an 'astronaut' of sorts - an explorer of learning and technology and the connections between the two. How might all of these activities and progressions be managed, and children effectively guided into the very career pathways they yearn to follow?

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Learning with e's

MAY 2, 2019

We recorded micro-teaches - usually a 10 minute lesson - and then played back the footage to the students so they could see and hear themselves and learn from the experience. They need to find resources quickly and effectively, so navigation of content must be quick and simple. Teachers sometimes take their students out into the world.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 5, 2017

Routine and schedule can be a huge barrier to new ideas, and creative pedagogy is often stifled due to lack of time or support. Photo by Woodleywonderworks on Flickr 5 of the best 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

OCTOBER 7, 2019

We have traversed several emerging ideas, including the use of virtual teaching assistants (chatbots), ultra-personalised learning and machine intelligence, but the most important component in education is still the human element. However, replacing some aspects of what teachers do is both effective and inevitable. "AI

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Learning with e's

JULY 29, 2019

Blogging has always been one of the ways I best express my ideas, and coupled with teaching, public speaking and a number of interviews on video and through podcasting, it has been my main channel of communication and dialogue with my professional community in recent years. 2005) Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity.

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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). 2015b) Large-Scale, Government Supported Educational Tablet Initiative.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 12, 2016

However, these are still used effectively by those who desire to access educational opportunities to which they would otherwise have no access. 3) Learners need consistent, reliable access to learning materials, but also connections to peers and teachers if learning by mobile is to be effective. don't have internet capability).

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Learning with e's

JULY 2, 2018

I also suggested that affordances of IWBs should be considered when deploying them in learning and teaching contexts. Finally - and especially for those who teach mixed abilities and grade levels - the IWB can be used as a tool for differentiation. With a little planning and creativity, IWBs can play a key role in how we achieve this.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 30, 2015

They want to know how their teacher can support them as they learn, and whether their teacher is approachable and cares about their learning. Technology, just like any other set of tools, is there to help us all to do the job better, smarter, more effectively. education integration learning Learning with ''e''s teaching Technology'

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Contact me if you're interested in hosting and have a technology supported education theme you would like to propose for #EDENchat. Photo on Pixabay Join our global #EDENchat 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

JANUARY 12, 2019

Scaffolding was a metaphorical representation of the many active ways in which teachers (or MKOs) focus their efforts and expertise to support of learners at the start of their learning, but gradually fade this support as learners become more independent and competent. Thank you for reading. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

When it comes to supporting a student''s progress, showing them what they can do to improve, or perform better is the key. In my teaching I have therefore focused on assessment as a means of scaffolding student progress , and I employ a variety of methods to achieve this end. I don''t like end of module assessments much.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 16, 2017

It's also a chance for them to voice their hopes and fears about teaching, now they are actually in the thick of it. I got into teaching because I wanted to continue my backpacking lifestyle in Thailand but needed some funds so teaching TEFL English was my ticket. This is number six in my series, asking former students on the B.Ed

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

There are a lot of factors to consider, including current development of technology and its future proofing, existing systems and interoperability, access and provision of networked resources, skills and capabilities of teaching staff, market forces and socio-economic influences, to name a few. But these are just the tip of the iceberg.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

One astute observation is that even when universities do adopt online modes of teaching such as MOOCs , all that seems to occur is the lecture is transferred to digital format. If a lecture is nothing more than an expert standing in front of an audience speaking for an hour, then there are clearly issues around its effectiveness.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 20, 2013

Someone once remarked that the lecture is the most effective way to transfer a lecturer''s notes into a student''s notes without having to pass through two minds first. The old modes of teaching are outmoded. We can no longer afford to teach in the same ways as we were taught. New modes will, and are replacing them.

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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. I am sure others will have different preferences or recommendations to make.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 1, 2016

So here's another batch for you: The question the students had to address on this occasion was: 'How can psychological and pedagogical theories be applied to create effective learning spaces?' Again, this content is supported by psychological theory - which she will later be able to use in her formal assignment for this module.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The conference is themed around excellence in teaching of the social sciences, which reflects my own professional and academic background. What issues in HE teaching and learning are you passionate about? As a lecturer how important do you think it is to look at teaching and learning issues through a disciplinary lens?

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Learning with e's

MARCH 13, 2017

Firstly, it will support collaborative learning in numerous ways, not least because students could use the board for the purposes of brainstorming ideas, organising their projects, mapping out alternative approaches to solving a problem, group mind mapping, and so on. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 8, 2017

She is half way through her second year of teaching. She now teaches in Berkshire where she grew up. When she found out it would be a specialised STEM primary school she was even more interested, and after a long application and interview process she secured her first teaching post at the school. degree in primary education.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 1, 2016

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. Social media lend themselves naturally to support learning through discussions, collaboration and sharing. They also have the capacity to support personal learning.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 26, 2012

Everywhere I look I'm seeing 'Flip teaching' or 'Flipped classroom'. Do we seriously think that we can replace teaching with a video? According to the Wired magazine article, 'flipped teaching is essentially a type of tutoring. You also need to support them. What does flipping actually involve?

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