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The cult of the grade

Learning with e's

Assessment drives pedagogy, so if assessment doesn't change, it's difficult to teach in new ways. It's bad pedagogy, and needs to be challenged. It is difficult, when leaders resist, for institutions to break out of old, traditional thinking about pedagogy. The way teachers teach is defined by the way they assess learning.

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Empowering students with digital tools and project-based learning

Kadenze

Most of the top 25 highest paying, in-demand jobs (e.g., Distinctive contribution to creative education. The underpinning pedagogy of these courses marks a distinctive and significant contribution to the field of creative education. Kadenze is proud to bring this course to students and creative educators across the globe.

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Generation next

Learning with e's

It's safe to claim that much of higher education is firmly rooted in the past , reflecting colonial history, traditional values and 20th (or even 19th) Century pedagogies. This might be seen as a generalisation, because there are some pockets of innovative pedagogy to be found in every large education institution. Unported License.

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Who should define the curriculum? #EEES613

Learning with e's

They have to write a 5000 word essay (their final one before they leave the university to take up their first jobs in primary teaching), and they have to try to come up with an answer. EEES613 by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Who's afraid of the big bad MOOC?

Learning with e's

Writing in the Thursday March 7 edition of the International Herald Tribune, Thomas Friedman issues a stark warning to all traditional universities about MOOCs, focused on improving pedagogy. by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Everything is on Google. Unported License.

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Learning is learning

Learning with e's

Pedagogy , another term used widely in education, derives from the time of the Roman slaves, known as pedagogs, who were tasked to either train their masters' children, or in many cases, to 'lead them to education'. 3) Adults are most interested in learning subjects that have immediate relevance to their job or personal life.

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The AfL truth about assessment

Learning with e's

Many of the jobs children will take when they leave school in ten years or so haven''t even been conceived yet. This is assessment for learning (AfL) rather than assessment of learning, and it''s critical for good pedagogy. Photo from Wikimedia Commons by Hariadhi Who put the ass in assessment? a certainty. It should be AfL.