Learning with e's

AUGUST 29, 2019

The first, in conjunction with EADL will be a workshop on the future of distance education, where I will focus on the new technologies, theories and practices that are emerging in this field. Back to Berlin 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

JANUARY 8, 2019

In the meantime, here's the title and abstract of my keynote: Technology Supported Learning: What has been, and what is yet to come In recent years education has been assailed by waves of new technologies, theories and practises. Unported License. Some have penetrated deeply into education while others are still peripheral.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 31, 2013

My explanation is that praxis is at the nexus - the overlap - between theory and practice. Praxis is the essence of what happens when theory is applied to practice, and can be simplified in this Venn diagram. To no longer be prey to its force, one must emerge from it and turn upon it. Theory without action is just theory.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

This is number 31 in my series on learning theories. I''m working through the alphabet of psychologists and theorists, providing a brief overview of each theory, and how it can be applied in education. The Theory Not to be confused with constructivism, constructionism is a cognitive theory that relates to learning by making things.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 5, 2014

This is number 33 in my series on learning theories. Psychologists and cognitive scientists have offered a number of useful theories that aid our understanding of learning. In this series I''m providing a brief overview of the theories, and how each can be applied in education. Bandura Social Learning Theory 4.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 29, 2014

My book is about educational theory and practice. It focuses on new and emerging theories of learning and pedagogy in the digital age, as well as a critical retrospective on some of the older, more established theories. by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

MARCH 16, 2014

David White , who is at Oxford University, is probably best known for his theory of Digital Residents and Visitors. Prensky''s Natives and Immigrants was a popular theory within the education world a decade ago, but upon close examination it turned out to be fraught with difficulties and flaws. Unported License.

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JULY 30, 2016

Learning is essentially a social activity, where people scaffold and extend each other’s knowledge gain [ 54 ], but in recent years, new theories have emerged to explain distributed forms of learning that have been made possible through mobile technology and social media. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

His Zone of Proximal Development theory has been central to our understanding of how we learn in social contexts. Photo by Steve Wheeler Three things by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Thirdly, learning needs to be globalised.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 6, 2014

This is number 15 in my series on learning theories. I''m working through the alphabet of psychologists and theorists, providing a brief overview of each theory, and how it can be applied in education. In this post, we take a look at an emerging theory of learning proposed by Stewart Hase and Chris Kenyon, known as Heutagogy.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 21, 2019

In Digital Transformation (Siebel, 2019) Siebel uses the theory of evolution as an analogy for the current disruptions we see across the business world. Digital transformation of our world by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Several theories emerged or were redeveloped as a result of the experiment. Even Festinger''s theory of cognitive dissonance was deemed to be an explanatory theory to explain why the guards behaved so aggressively to their prisoners, even though they realised their actions were unethical. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 11, 2012

The final section of the presentation, which I presented, dealt with some of the pedagogical theory and implications. I talked about connectivism, paragogy, heutagogy and other emerging theories that seek to explain how we learn in new digitally rich environments. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 11, 2019

New teaching and learning methods and techniques and new pedagogical theories have emerged, and those of us who inhabit the world of education and training have witnessed disruption (both positive and detrimental) on a vast scale. Unported License. MOOCs; and a whole host of other innovations have been birthed during this time.

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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. 1947) The Theory of Social and Economic Organisation. Unported License. and Lukose, R.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

In the keynote presentations I tackled some contentious topics, including the issuing of challenges to a number of long standing and widely accepted theories (or beliefs) about how learning occurs. re)Designing learning in a digital world by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

MAY 2, 2011

So here, just for the record are my own, and other people's thoughts on the controversy of Marc Prensky's Digital Natives and Immigrants theory. Older people have a foot in the past, and speak technology with an 'accent' that they cannot lose, while younger people are naturally adept at using new and emerging technologies.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 28, 2007

Thursday, June 28, 2007 Emerging Technologies in e-Learning I sat in on a lunchtime WebEx presentation with Gary Woodill -- Director, Research and Analysis, Brandon Hall Research. The topic: Emerging Technologies in e-Learning. Emerging" = kinds of e-learning that are just starting to show up -- in labs, new company offerings.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 1, 2014

This is number 11 in my series of short posts on learning theories. My intention is to work through the alphabet of psychologists and provide a brief overview of each theory, and how it can be applied in education. In this post, we continue to explore Festinger''s work, this time focusing on his theory of cognitive dissonance.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

New methods cannot be fully explained or justified by old theories. My interpretation is this: new societal needs require new methods of teaching; new methods of teaching need new theories - theories for the information age. Unported License. In fact we have been facing this challenge for some time.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

This of course is a profound question, and one which demands some good theory and reflection. Much of our thinking about learning over the past few decades has been influenced significantly by the writings of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotskii, who proposed the theory of social constructivism (Vygotsky, 1978). References Bandura, A.

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Learning with e's

JULY 26, 2019

New expressions begin to emerge as language is mediated through the technology. For example, we see the emergence of textuality - in all its possible forms of expression. 2015) Learning with 'e's: Educational theory and practice in the digital age. Unported License. Available online here. Wheeler, S.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

From a connectivist perspective, PLNs can emerge through our often random and serendipitous connections with others whom we encounter on the Web. Yet if we examine the theories behind the two concepts, we see there are some subtle differences. by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 23, 2013

I once went on holiday to a very warm, overseas destination and deliberately left all my devices at home (except one mobile phone to be used in emergencies only). from Steve Wheeler There are several psychological theories that can be applied to help us understand the phenomenon of computer dependency. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Whichever way you view this book however, it was notable for introducing rhizome theory as a metaphor for knowledge representation. Rhizome theory is also a useful framework for understanding self-determined learning - the heutagogy described by Hase and Kenyon. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 28, 2014

There are many theories, but no definitive answers. Again, there are many theories, but we lack definitive answers. We can''t begin thinking about them, because they haven''t yet emerged into existence and therefore we are yet to be aware of them. Unported License. How can we prepare for this?

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Learning with e's

JULY 8, 2011

I held the position that the theory of andragogy (Malcolm Knowles) adds very little to our understanding of learning. In some ways, I argued, andragogy theory seems outmoded in the light of recent rapid developments in new teaching methods, learning resources and digital media. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 1, 2016

There are several theories as to why the Allies suffered so many casualties. Although bombarded for a week, the Germans were able to emerge largely unscathed when the shelling ceased. Unported License. They gained barely three square miles of territory, and the battle raged on for another 5 months.

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JUNE 16, 2017

I began to experiment with satellite and video teleconferencing, which emerged from research I did during my teacher training. I completed a degree at the Open University in psychology, which piqued my interest further toward all forms of learning - both the theory and practice. Unported License. It all began a long time ago.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 26, 2013

Let''s start with some theory: According to the revised Bloom''s cognitive taxonomy by Anderson and Krathwohl, ''creating'' is suggested as the peak of achievement. I wrote about this new model question recently, and critiqued it in the context of emergent forms of digital learning. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Behaviourism and Cognitivism are theories that could comfortably be applied to describe the activities seen within a Learning 1.0 The emergent properties of content organisation are folksonomies, and are the product of loose organised that is bottom-up rather than top-down. Unported License. type activities.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 31, 2013

My explanation is that praxis is at the nexus - the overlap - between theory and practice. Praxis is the essence of what happens when theory is applied to practice, and can be simplified in this Venn diagram. To no longer be prey to its force, one must emerge from it and turn upon it. Theory without action is just theory.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 12, 2016

The components in the model are by no means exhaustive - I acknowledge there are many more literacies, some of which are emergent due to new technologies and services. This aligns neatly to White and Le Cornu's Digital Residents theory. Unported License. First Monday , 16, 19, Available Online (Accessed 14 June 2016).

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

What theories could be used to explain these phenomena, and how can social/psychological models better our understanding of how people learn when their communication, relationships and learning are mediated through technology? Unported License. What issues in HE teaching and learning are you passionate about? We have the technology.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 20, 2013

Allow me elaborate: Many of our pedagogical theories and much of our practice in higher education is grounded in, and has been derived from, a pre-digital era, when the lecturer or professor was central to the process of education, and where the classroom was the predominant place for learning to take place. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Don't worry though, there's a theory for everything, including chaotic forms of learning. Post modern theories of society are often difficult to comprehend, largely due to the dense and at times inscrutable style in which post-modernist theorists write. Unported License. How can this approach be implemented?

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The title of Kelly's presentation was ' A look ahead : The now and the next of learning and technology' featured a quick fire examination of the new and emerging technologies we are getting to grips with, or which will soon be in the workplace. Unported License. His talk is summarised on his blog.

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