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

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. But what about regions of the world where AI will become commonplace? Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

We have enjoyed playing games since time immemorial, and video arcade games such as Asteroids and Space Invaders of the 1970's were just the start of the emergence of digital games. These match some of the key skills required to succeed in the world of work where digital technology is prevalent. Unported License. Thiagarajan, S.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 24, 2012

The advent of the social web has given people everywhere a virtually limitless new territory to discover and explore. Blogging encompasses an entire new range of literacies, and as learners get to grips with it, we can expect to see some new and powerful pedagogical practices emerging. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

eXtending the Web - New and Emerging Learning Technologies View more presentations from Steve Wheeler. It's not too hard to envisage this, including 3D manipulation of virtual objects and natural gesture driven learning, and of course the use of augmented reality for learning and context awareness while on the move. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 10, 2012

We are about to see the emergence of what Kevin Ashton called ' the Internet of Things '. The difference is, at present we can use our devices to interact directly with virtual space, but with smart context aware objects surrounding us, we will be able to interact through virtual tools into the real world.

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Learning with e's

MAY 29, 2013

It is your virtual community. Whether or not we realise it, if we regularly use social media, we are members of the world wide digital tribe. Post-industrial society saw the emergence of personal computers, the Web and a global communication network of mobile phones. 2009) Digital tribes, virtual clans. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 3, 2014

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Star Trek was just emerging as a popular new TV science fiction series. These technologies are now common place in the Western Industrial World, and we don''t think twice about them. Unported License. What will become of language teaching? Will we need it any more?

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

Steve Wheeler will take a cognitive stance to the issue of ethics in emerging digital environment research. by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. It's new wine, new bottles, new drinkers. Do you have the bottle for a debate?

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 4, 2012

In the world of learning, we are obsessed with questions about where education is heading next, how work based learning will be enhanced, and more effective methods of engaging learners. Many educators have invested their trust in the use of new and emerging technologies for the future success of learning. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

alternatively, a man walks into a bar and sees a horse serving drinks, and knows he is in a virtual reality (VR) environment. The 'dream world' he is experiencing inside his head is an artefact of the images being rendered by the visor he is wearing. Unported License. What about room based systems?

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Learning with e's

APRIL 28, 2016

An body of literature, books and videos has emerged in recent years explaining the benefits of the personalised curriculum, espousing individualised assessment and championing student centred learning. Unported License. It would be too expensive to manage a personalised education system that suited everyone's needs and preferences.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 4, 2013

More importantly, Turkle acknowledges that personal identity is often in the hands of individuals to make of what they will, a nod in the direction of the personalised spaces and digital presence construction that were to emerge a decade down the line. Unported License. She saw for example that we can easily deceived ourselves: ''.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Teaching en masse has emerged as a significant trend because of a lessening need to create co-present learning environments such as classrooms and lecture halls. The campus based university, and virtual versions of it are burgeoning as more and more people demand a formal degree level qualification. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 9, 2013

In writing Smart Mobs, Howard Rheingold , one of the pioneers of virtual communities and internet communication, created a land-mark volume on the social revolution that at the time was only just gaining ground. Photo by Biser Todorov (Wikimedia Commons). Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

If all the world is a stage, I demand better lighting! Such management of impression is common to all humans and is used to form connections and gain influence with others. Image source Making an impression by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

You only have to look at any emerging nation of the world where there is poor or partial compulsory education provision to see exactly how its economy is faring. This is because the governments of the world often remain blinded by economic considerations, and fail to see the true value of good education. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Interestingly, the students reported that they found the blogs useful for reflecting on action, and the authors postulate that with tutor support over a greater period of study time, meta-reflection might emerge as a result of prolonged blog writing, and revisiting of content. Sounds like two worlds are about to collide.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Morning keynotes from Wayne Mackintosh (see Wayne's World ) and Asha Kanwar (Commonwealth of Learning) set the scene, leaving delegates with visions of free worldwide access to learning, thoughts of openness and inspiration from accounts of education initiatives in developing countries. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

I pointed out that one of the key technologies for the future would be the World Wide Web (I was of course unaware at the time just how vital it would become) and that managed (virtual) learning environments would become a useful means of organising and supporting online learning for large groups of distributed learners.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 22, 2012

I drew upon my experience working in British and American schools to describe some of the new technologies and media methods that were emerging, and outlined their applications in teaching and learning. Communication is an easier prospect also with instant messaging and shared learning spaces becoming more common place. and Moonen, J.

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TechSmith Camtasia

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

YouTube now offers Creative Commons-licensed videos , which are automatically safe to use. If the content you’re interested in doesn’t come with a Creative Commons tag, it helps to know the fair use guidelines that allow the use of works without permission for teaching purposes. Google questions form.

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TechSmith Camtasia

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

YouTube now offers Creative Commons-licensed videos, which are automatically safe to use. If the content you’re interested in doesn’t come with a Creative Commons tag, it helps to know that the fair use guidelines which allows the use of works without permission for teaching purposes. 3, November 2009.

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Learning Visions

JULY 2, 2007

Files : Virtually any file type can be uploaded (mp3, zip, jpg) to the system. In the case of an emergency, they can text message every parent at the same time. Pricing model (from their website): We dont charge per user or have traditional license fees. United States License. Can be posted anonymously.

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Mark Oehlert

MARCH 6, 2008

Intellectual property law, Creative Commons licensed media, and the guidelines under which students can legally publish their ideas in a variety of multimedia formats on the OPEN WEB (accessible by anyone) are important issues for ALL teachers. From the land of Huh? where I am linking to all the Lewin stuff I find.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 17, 2019

This series has explored the notion of digital tribes and clans, and has applied these concepts to those who consistently inhabit virtual spaces. The tribes and clans I have identified, it could be argued, are emerging as a direct result of their sustained interaction with, and through, social technologies. Virtual clans 6.

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Mark Oehlert

JUNE 19, 2008

Have you explored using a Creative Commons license but found fatal flaws in that plan? Could the journal not operate a peer-reviewed, refereed publication without the enormous support it gets from the publisher? Have you researched Open Access Journals and found that model to be wanting? Faculty are paid by their schools.

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Mark Oehlert

MARCH 31, 2008

Why not license this work under Creative Commons ? Why would educators choose, in this day and age, to participate in a system that does nothing but enrich publishers and locks down information? Why not follow the model of the Public Library of Science Journals ? Or Open Access Journals ? From the land of Huh?

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 11, 2011

We synthesise our beliefs, knowledge and understanding of the world through constant exposure to the ideas of others. This process of negotiation often changes individuals, but can sometimes change an entire community, as new collective meaning emerges from the dialogue. 1993) The Virtual Community. Unported License.

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Limestone Learning

JULY 26, 2018

In this insightful and engaging presentation, 25-year Walt Disney World veteran Lenn Millbower shares the ways in which the following five strategies were, and are, trained, coached, rewarded and enhanced at every level within the Disney parks organization. is asked frequently in organizations around the world.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 16, 2015

ds106 has become a rich, distributed, and emergent international online community that happens to run as a class sometimes at UMW. Its objective is to help participants interrogate the emergent culture of the web by actively engaging in a steady diet of creating and reflecting on the web. Unported License. ds106 is people!

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