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Generation next

Learning with e's

They will have no memories of the 20th century, which just happens to be the same century their lecturers were born and educated within. Lecturers tend to teach in the same way they themselves were taught. What will they need in a world of work that is increasingly dependent on digital technologies? It's a sobering thought.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

See Failure of Creative Commons Licenses and Creative Commons Use in For-Profit Company eLearning? Open Content Potential But There are Challenges This year I spent quite a bit of time looking at where and how open content could get leveraged in different ways. for more on this. Top eLearning Sites?

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Shifting sands

Learning with e's

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. We now live on shifting sands.