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Digital capabilities

Learning with e's

Image from Wikimedia Commons I visited the University of Greenwich for the first time recently to give an invited open lecture to academic staff. There is plenty of discussion around digital competencies, learning theory and teaching environments, and I hope you'll find the content thought provoking. Unported License.

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Blogging: Five of the best

Learning with e's

All this has been possible because they are all labelled as Creative Commons with a repurpose licence. So here they are - the top five posts in the history of Learning With 'E's: 1. I was in the middle of a lecture tour and I noticed the same questions kept popping up from my audiences. Unported License.

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Active learning spaces

Learning with e's

It is not hard to see how such an artificial transition from active to passive can stifle creativity and demotivate learners. As a response to the problems of learning in homogenised, regimented environments such as classrooms and lecture halls, Technology Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) came into being. Unported License.

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Donald. Duck!

Learning with e's

What really rankled though with many of those present (and some of those watching via Elluminate) was his critique that academics do not question learning theories, not are they suffiently critical of them. He cited Donald Bligh's seminal book 'What's the use of lectures?', Unported License. Unported License.

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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. Unported License.

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MOOCs In Workplace Learning – Part 2: Designing a MOOC

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Moreover, participants need to have the freedom to drive their own learning – by using both formal learning pathways as well as the informal components. Constructivist Learning Theory: In constructivist learning, learners “create” their own meaning through interaction in context (situated learning).

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MOOCS IN WORKPLACE LEARNING – PART 2: DESIGNING A MOOC

Learnnovators

Moreover, participants need to have the freedom to drive their own learning – by using both formal learning pathways as well as the informal components. Constructivist Learning Theory: In constructivist learning, learners “create” their own meaning through interaction in context (situated learning).