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OCTOBER 26, 2021

Through OER, students can increase their critical thinking and writing skills due to OER’s capacity to be modified, expanded and remixed. Check back to our blog and social media feeds for additional resources and case studies on how our clients are using CourseArc to move their learning online. . Want to learn more about CourseArc?

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Learning with e's

JULY 22, 2012

One of the perennial problems teachers face, especially in early years education, is trying to get children to write. The main problem is that children are expected to write in a vacuum, for an audience of one (the teacher). In an article entitled Could blogging be the key to raising a generation of great writers?

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TechSmith Camtasia

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Part of where I struggled was writing up files for demos and examples each day for a lesson. Rather than writing out entire documents and refreshing the browser to see the effect, I start by prototyping in services like CodePen or jsFiddle. At times, all you want to do is show a quick concept or solve an isolated problem.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 9, 2014

Blogging can be used to engage children in creative writing , while making videos is excellent for problem solving and collaborative work. But that is the problem. Design issues are not the only problems. Sometimes, the technology does get in the way of learning and teaching. Unported License.

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Mindflash

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Gary Hamel, in his weekly WSJ.com blog, writes about the Facebook generation and ways fortune Fortune 500 companies aren’t prepared to deal with this new crop of workers. The problem is, workers are fed up with selfish leaders’ behavior, and no longer wish to serve a self-serving leader — not that they ever much did before.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 10, 2017

The LLI team members were writing some new research proposals and were allocated a room with large dry-wipe white boards on three walls. As I was working in this space with 5 other members of the team, I realised how useful it was to have these writing spaces to map out our ideas and plans. What about creative thinking spaces?

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

People are beginning to notice an increase in the quantity and quality of blog posts and tweets emerging from our group of learners in the School of Education. Earlier today another 20 or so students on my BA Education Studies programme also started out on their blogging journey, and there have been several outstanding blog posts already.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Artefacts are a material outworking of knowledge creation, and according to Vygotsky , they can be aids to solving problems that could not be solved as effectively in their absence. The blog content allows me perhaps to view a problem from a different perspective. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 1, 2014

As this will be my last ever blog post, I thought I would explain why I have decided to quit blogging. In the 5 years since I first took up blogging, I have written just over 1160 posts, and have received over 4600 comments. I feel very sad that as April arrives and spring is finally here, it also signals the winter of my blog.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

He bemoaned the problems that have arisen when speech and thought have been studied as though they had no influence on each other. This is one reason why I believe blogging is such an important tool to support thinking and learning. But how much do our memories depend on the development of language? Unported License.

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TechSmith Camtasia

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Displaying information on the board, collecting student answers, figuring out maximum and minimum guesses for an estimation problem – these take time. The end result is equivalent to the idea of students writing their work on the board. Knowing which choice is better is the one I wish I could write an algorithm to solve.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 14, 2014

They were writing up their project in their online journals when I spoke to them, reflecting on what they had learnt about ratios, distances and dimensions. They were also busy writing up their experiences and what they had learnt, to share with their teachers, friends and parents. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 5, 2012

If you are considering taking up blogging this year, and wondering what it might involve, I would be happy to offer you a few tips from my own experience. I have been blogging for just over 5 years and during that time have learnt a few things. Firstly, blogging can be time consuming. But don't let that put you off - join in.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Metrics gathered from these kind of interactions will be quite valuable, not only to retailers who want to harness direct marketing ("forget your problems John Anderton.") Photo by Steve Wheeler Mobile learning and personal metrics by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Mindflash

MARCH 30, 2012

” “The reasons for this aren’t hard to divine,” Surowiecki writes. Freakonomics co-author Stephen Dubner used his blog to jump on the Surowiecki bandwagon , using the piece to talk about his own experiences at Whole Foods Market and Michaels supermarkets. Image used under Creative Commons by Flickr user Ed Yourdon.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

I asked my guide what the problem was, and was told it was the result of acid rain. When the Taliban decreed that girls were to be banned from receiving an education, and started to destroy schools in the area, she began to write a blog about life under the regime. Unported License.

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TechSmith Camtasia

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

4 There are two general methods for creating an instructional screencast: Record the computer screen, provide narration, and use a digital tablet to show, for example, content that requires a sequence of steps, such as solving a math problem or showing chemistry equations in real time. Screencast PowerPoint Model. Types of Google Forms.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

They argued that it was a waste of time when the nurses could be studying their text books, writing their essays, or practicing how to give injections into oranges. The very act of constructing something tangible allows students to test out hypotheses, learn from each other and solve problems as they progress. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Until it comes to academic writing, that is. Many students fail to realise their full potential when it comes to essay writing, usually because they can't seem to find their way out of the descriptive cul-de-sac they make for themselves. If they could only find it within themselves to write critically, they would earn higher grades.

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Mindflash

APRIL 27, 2012

She writes: “An increasing number of the workforce –— smart, social, autonomous workers — are already doing their own thing and solving their own learning and performance problems much more quickly and more easily by using their own tools and devices. (An Image used under Creative Commons by Flickr user wgreller.

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Learning with e's

JULY 18, 2012

I wrote a series of blog posts arguing that multiple literacies are needed to make sense of the digital media we use. Writing is a skill, but it is also a literacy. Their reasoning is that the act of writing involves more than the reproduction of a sequence of letters, words, sentences and paragraphs. Literacy goes beyond skill.

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Mindflash

MAY 15, 2012

Then request that participants write about how they would handle a specific coaching situation. The participants would comment on how each coach managed the fictitious problem and everyone would learn in the process. Worked-out examples are step-by-step demonstrations of how to solve a problem. Cho and Cho, 2011).

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

The Social Web is comprised of software that enables people to both read from, and write onto web spaces. The problem with this is that students may not always be as accurate or fastidious in their content generation as they could be, and may need guidance on the pathway they choose to take. Introducing Web 2.0: Kamel Boulos, M.

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Mindflash

JUNE 20, 2012

.” All of this adds up to a new skill that learning experience designers need to develop: Identifying, championing, and implementing interventions that get people to gather, work together better, and solve problems together. Then write something on it, like What’s causing your customers pain, and how should it be fixed?

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Learning with e's

JULY 17, 2013

It''s a workshop about how to promote creativity in learning, and as you might imagine, I get the audience involved in lots of activities, exercises and games and give them some fun challenges and problems to solve. I challenge teachers to tell me how they recognise when their learners are being creative. Follow the rules.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

This is a continuation from yesterday''s blog post on changing times and the survival of higher education. Around 2007 we started using blogs to support several of our student teacher groups that were geographically dispersed across the South of England.

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Learning with e's

MAY 31, 2012

The conference was enhanced by the presence of several very tech savvy young students from primary schools, who took a full part in the proceedings, tweeting and live blogging from the event on their mobile devices. What both projects have in common is their capitalisation on the 'hidden audience' effect. Unported License.

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Mindflash

DECEMBER 29, 2011

The first of these comes from Katie Morell, writing for the American Express OPEN Forum, who manages to round up five common training errors that bedevil companies. ‘If I’d done that, I would have been able to catch problems and potential unethical conduct before it happened.’”

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Learning with e's

MARCH 16, 2017

That is exactly the purpose of this series of blog posts. I had the low ability English group and they were still near the end of year 2 struggling with their phonics and general engagement in writing. It's great to catch up with former students and discover what they are doing. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 20, 2015

Most importantly, they will be able to think critically and strategically about the problems they encounter and will be able to arrive at novel solutions. Reflecting back on their time at university is made easier because of the blogs and other digital artefacts they have left in their trail. Watch out for next year's presentations!

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Mindflash

MAY 17, 2012

Problem No. Problem No. ” Problem No. In fact, many players found themselves writing messages to each other on the drawing screen to try and fill the gap. Image used under Creative Commons by Flickr user Perfecto Insecto. 1: The Game is Too Easy. Gamers need a challenge.

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Mindflash

DECEMBER 16, 2011

In his e-learning year-in-review blog post , Tony Bates looks back at some of the new companies and services entering the field, and gives a little forecast of what he expects to see, particularly at higher-learning institutions, happen in 2012. Without analysis, technology will not make a dent in the problem or advance the opportunity.

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Learning with e's

MAY 7, 2016

Although games are generally fun and can be competitive, the key aspect of playing the game is that children can develop reasoning and problem solving skills which are demonstrated in the levels they reach and the points they score. My own students showcase their learning through making videos or writing blogs. Unported License.

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Mindflash

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Lee says the key is to “shift your millennial employee from Unconscious Incompetence to Conscious Incompetence,” and the best way to do this is by using that old maxim familiar to anyone who’s ever taken a writing class: Show, don’t tell. Lee writes: “Don’t be vague when describing the areas you believe they need to develop.

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TechSmith Camtasia

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

4 There are two general methods for creating an instructional screencast: Record the computer screen, provide narration, and a digital tablet to show for example content which requires a sequence of steps, such as solving a math problem or showing chemistry equations in real time. Screencast PowerPoint Model. Types of Google Forms.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 22, 2007

Wednesday, August 22, 2007 Half of Companies Blocking Facebook Christy Tucker has been musing on Social Networking as LMS: Problems and Opportunities. One real problem is corporate fear of social networking tools. Update: Also be sure to check out this Facebook post over at the Read/Write Web that follows this same "study."

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Learning Visions

MAY 30, 2007

Wednesday, May 30, 2007 Blogging is the new Graduate School Im not the only one getting an informal masters degree out here. In a guest post on the Brazen Careerist, Ryan Healy writes, "maybe blogging is the new graduate school." If you offer intelligent opinions or advice on a credible blog, then you are an expert.

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