Learning with e's

MAY 7, 2013

Social media sites such as Twitter span huge distances to connect people around the world. It''s hard to believe that not so long ago, (pre-internet, pre-World Wide Web), this would have been nigh on impossible. It''s something we already know, or at least have suspected for a long time. He''s having a whale of a time.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Photo from Wikimedia Commons I will argue here that within the present information age, where digital communication technologies have fractured the tyranny of distance beyond repair, and where computers have become pervasive and ubiquitous, identification through digital mediation has become the new cultural capital (Bordieu and Passeron, 1990).

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Photo by Andras Vas on unsplash Previous posts in this series have highlighted the importance of human intelligence and emotion in education. In many parts of the world this won't happen at all, usually because of what has been called the digital divide. But what about regions of the world where AI will become commonplace?

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Games, whether digital or analogue, have the capability to motivate learners, challenge them to improve their dexterity, problem solving and reasoning skills, encourage teamwork and collaboration (Nemerow, 1996) - especially social games such as World of Warcraft or Call of Duty - and performance is under constant peer review. Ellison, J.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Gamers are free to take risks in spaces where 'real world' consequences are negated. There is also the committed learning principle, which describes how gamers have sustained engagement as extensions of their real world identities in relation to their virtual identity (or avatar). Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 14, 2014

Boston''s project involved recreating a Second World War battlefield, complete with bunkers and escape routes. They had to go out and measure the entire school campus, including the grounds to ensure that the proportions of their virtual school were correct. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

At Learning Technologies in London last week I expressed my view that Augmented Reality (AR) has more direct applications in workplace learning than Virtual Reality (VR). AR views the world through the camera on your device and overlays additional information on the live images it presents on the screen. Unported License.

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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. Image by Ed Yourdon Blogging as literacy by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Content too is being prodigiously generated, remixed, organised and shared on an unprecedented scale.

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Learning with e's

MAY 2, 2019

Photo by Vladimer Shioshvili on Flickr Educators have been using video for decades. There is also scope to advance virtual reality and immersive experiences in education, both of which rely heavily on video content. Teachers sometimes take their students out into the world. With video, they can bring the world to their students.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 10, 2012

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. Already we have QR codes and RFID embedded into objects. Things ain't what they used to be. 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. What about room based systems? The answer depends on scalability. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 3, 2014

These technologies are now common place in the Western Industrial World, and we don''t think twice about them. Other Star Trek technologies are also becoming common, including medical scanners (tricorder), video conferencing, touch screen tablets and even 3D printers (replicators). What will become of language teaching?

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Learning with e's

APRIL 28, 2016

These become personal windows on the world, enabling them to drill down and investigate for themselves, the finer details of content they need to learn. Personal learning environments reach beyond the technologies institutions provide - especially virtual learning environments/managed learning environments. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 6, 2014

The world''s largest and most successful social network, Facebook - celebrated its tenth anniversary in February 2014. In its short lifetime it has become the most popular virtual meeting place for millions of friends, family, and long-lost acquaintances worldwide. Boasting a growing membership that is currently well in excess of 1.2

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Learning with e's

JUNE 13, 2013

Her paper, entitled ''New Tools for Students'' also featured a live demonstration of a virtual world within which a variety of different decision making scenarios could be presented. Photo by Steve Wheeler What is it about games.? by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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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. Social media, the most social of all modern technologies, provided us with shared virtual spaces where we could ''meet''. 2009) Digital tribes, virtual clans. Call it what you wish.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 4, 2013

She asked: ''Do our real-life selves learn lessons from our virtual personae?'' (p 180) and documented how the early users of the Web struggled to come to terms with multiple contexts and manipulation of multiple identities with her ominous and prescient question ''. She saw for example that we can easily deceived ourselves: ''.

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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 24, 2014

From the University of South Africa and the British Open University in the sixties to modern mega-universities, virtual universities and even Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs), the massification of education at a distance has progressively advanced as technology gives the impetus. We can look back and take stock. Far from it.

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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. Wheeler, S.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 22, 2012

Across Europe and other western industrialised nations, most universities now have their own corporate e-learning strategies, and most manage their own virtual learning environments or VLEs (McConnell, 2006). Communication is an easier prospect also with instant messaging and shared learning spaces becoming more common place.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Napier was the victim of a massive earthquake in 1931 which virtually destroyed it and killed 161 of its inhabitants. I took a photo of the rising sun from my hotel room window the following morning and incorporated it into the title slide of my presentation, much to the delight of my audience. Related blogpost. 3) Nuremburg, Germany.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 28, 2007

Then the world wide web. Incremental: Some forms of online training support current ways of doing things Virtual classrooms, presentation software, authoring tools, assessment tools, LMS. Its a talking head, a virtual agent. Tire company -- used virtual agent to deliver online without a lot of reading. 1980s CD ROMS.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 2, 2007

Your presence to the world? Otherwise, you cant find that stack of virtual CDs when you need it. Photo Credit: "Briefcase" by Gerson Robles from Stock.xchng Posted by Cammy Bean at 11:21 AM Labels: online portfolio 3comments: Kate Foy said. Should the blog become the landing point for your online portfolio? Would Netvibes work?

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TechSmith Camtasia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

We live in a world where you can order custom designed sneakers and have them delivered to your door in 48 hours or less. School systems around the world pay lots of money to have this type of data and it usually is gathered after the students have moved on to another grade level. Informed Improvement. For Educators'

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Learning Visions

JULY 10, 2007

Tuesday, July 10, 2007 The Real World, SecondLife and FaceBook/MySpace Over the past few weeks Ive conducted about 17 interviews with current college students and recent graduates. This was a little wake up call to me as I sit in my little e-Learning world, trying to immerse myself in all that is new. All women. 12:03 PM Mark said.

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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

I think the success of MOOCs, at least initially, might be linked to the fact that administrators around the world started to pay attention to online learning. With technology like containerization (the virtualized deployment of micro-instances of servers) we can run and scale infrastructure as big and/or small as we want.

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