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What do online educators need?

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Photo by Steinar Engeland on unsplash In yesterday's post I wrote about how teachers are beginning to use online forms of education to enhance and extend the reach of schools. Distance education in all its forms has been used for more than a century in education, leveraging the potential of each new technology as it emerges.

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Reinventing learning spaces

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Too much noise, not enough light, too much heat or cold, uncomfortable seats, even poorly configured seating in a classroom can adversely affect learning. Teachers should be the architects of learning spaces (Wheeler, 2015, p 102). 2015) Learning with ''e''s: Educational theory and practice in the digital age.

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A growing divide?

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In his blog on Learning Ecosystems, Daniel S. Christian claims that a new pedagogy is emerging that is directly driven by the upsurge in online activity. Photo from VCU Libraries A growing divide? by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Digital is default

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The book was published in 1995, just as the Internet was beginning to invent for itself a space that previously had not existed. The following year I joined a ground breaking project in which my team set up digital learning spaces for businesses and individuals in hard-to-reach rural areas that until then had no infrastructure.

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Freedom to imagine

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Sir Ken Robinson has a lot to say about creativity and learning. One of his remarks is that imagination needs to emerge as creativity, as a natural process. Today, technology, particularly technology that is personal and portable, can provide similar forms of scaffolding for learning. Unported License.

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New learning environments: The challenge and the promise #EDENchat

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In recent years, education has evolved to the point where learning can take place anywhere and at any time, usually beyond the walls of the traditional learning space. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. There are all sorts of possibilities thanks to new technologies. Unported License.

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The architecture of learning

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The emergent properties of content organisation are folksonomies, and are the product of loose organised that is bottom-up rather than top-down. One of the best theories to describe how learning is organised in Web 2.0 One of the best theories to describe how learning is organised in Web 2.0 Unported License.

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