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Theories for the digital age: Self regulated learning

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One challenge for education providers is to decide whether they will support the desire of students to self regulate their learning activities using personal technologies. It is not difficult to see that such sharing of knowledge can be easily achieved through social media and the use of personal digital technologies.

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Theories for the digital age: Paragogy

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Such interconnectedness and willingness to share creates a new kind of peer mentoring that operates at multiple levels and many degrees of expertise, supporting learning in all its complexity. Image source Theories for the digital age: Paragogy by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Face to face - at a distance

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Social media and smart phones were still a few years away, so we made do with what was available. Multi-media learning was the best approach we had, combining text, audio and video together to create the first 'immersive' learning experiences. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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What has been and what is yet to come

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In the meantime, here's the title and abstract of my keynote: Technology Supported Learning: What has been, and what is yet to come In recent years education has been assailed by waves of new technologies, theories and practises. Some have penetrated deeply into education while others are still peripheral. Unported License.

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12 Helpful Resources for Instructional Design

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Instructional design is the thoughtful application of design aspects — like color theory, typography, and user experience — to create educational resources. CourseArc was built as a tool and team to support organizations as they build online content. 12 Helpful Resources for Instructional Design.

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Better together

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Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky (1978) argued that we learn best when we are immersed in a socially rich, culturally relevant environment. So is the social connection between those who are learning, and those who are supporting that learning. Prentice-Hall series in social learning theory. References Bandura, A.

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Vygotsky, Piaget and YouTube

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According to his Zone of Proximal Development theory (ZPD), whether that person be a teacher, peer or parent, children learn more extensively within a social context. ZPD theory ran counter to other developmental theories of the time. For Vygotsky, the technology is the ZPD - mediating the social. Unported License.

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