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Space exploration

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The newspaper covered the 'demise' of the university lecture theatre. The news created a small stir on social media, with several educators opining about what they thought of lecture theatres, their place in universities, technology, and teaching and learning in general. It all looks very bright, modern and colourful.

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It's a complicated business.

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Image from Pexels Two recent articles have prompted a flurry of commentary on social media around the quality of learning in higher education. by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 If it does, this should be a welcome move.

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7 ways to support learner-teacher interaction

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At the recent ALT-C Conference in Nottingham (which I couldn''t attend) a very good question was asked by Renee Filius on Twitter: How can we enable true two-way interaction between lecturers and students that is not too time consuming? This is a perennial question, one that often exercises the minds of many higher education lecturers.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

And the system itself is growing with sites like Social Media Informer. See Failure of Creative Commons Licenses and Creative Commons Use in For-Profit Company eLearning? Social Learning Tools Should Not be Separate from Enterprise 2.0 Social Learning Tools Should Not be Separate from Enterprise 2.0

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You are what you tweet

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One of the topics we discussed at our social media panel session at the BETT Show 2016 was its dangers and pitfalls. I related the story of a student with a protected Twitter account , who felt it was acceptable to post disparaging tweets about his lecturers and university. So be careful what you post or share on social media.

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Generation next

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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. It's sometimes hard to see how listening in lectures, attending seminars, and sitting exams promotes these skills.

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Learners as producers

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For the longest time teachers and lecturers have held the monopoly on the production of academic content. Social media tools such as blogs and video sharing sites facilitate this process, but on a global scale. They are identified and maintain their identities through their social media and are familiar with the terrain.

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