Learning with e's

MARCH 7, 2014

Where once, experts had a monopoly on knowledge and expertise, now anyone it seems can access content that will teach them. This is autodidacticism - teaching yourself. 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.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

When it comes to supporting a student''s progress, showing them what they can do to improve, or perform better is the key. In my teaching I have therefore focused on assessment as a means of scaffolding student progress , and I employ a variety of methods to achieve this end. I don''t like end of module assessments much.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

Instructional design is the thoughtful application of design aspects — like color theory, typography, and user experience — to create educational resources. Visit Tim Slade’s website for videos on scoping an eLearning project, organizing content, managing project scope creep, transitioning from teaching to instructional design, and more.

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Obsidian Learning

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Image licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 We’ve gone so far as to develop an entire field—social learning theory—based on the premise that “behavior is learned from the environment through the process of observational learning.” Really, not so much has changed. Unported license. Attribution: amiteshikha.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

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. 2002) Digital Hemlock: Internet Education and the Poisoning of Teaching. References Brabazon, T. University of South Wales, Australia.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

But new wine must be put into new wineskins; and both are preserved. " (Luke 5:37-38) The above passage relates to Jesus Christ and his teaching to his disciples. Today we are facing this challenge in education, across all the sectors of learning and teaching. New methods cannot be fully explained or justified by old theories.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 12, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler Theories of learning can be useful in helping us to understand the possibilities of learning, and also to guide teachers in their pedagogical practice. But to which theories should we subscribe? Jerome Bruner developed ZPD theory to include the concept of scaffolded learning. Thank you for reading.

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Mindflash

APRIL 16, 2012

By focusing that valuable face-to-face classroom time on exercises that put the lessons learned during lectures into actual practice (doing the homework at school), instructors are supporting the part of the learning process (the “doing”) that students really retain. Image used under Creative Commons by Flickr user jurvetson.

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Learning with e's

JULY 11, 2012

Oliver presented some case studies of how students have successfully harnessed the power of social media tools to gain a foothold in the teaching profession and promote learning. The final section of the presentation, which I presented, dealt with some of the pedagogical theory and implications. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 11, 2019

It's a professional community of educators interested in technology supported learning. It was the start of many long associations with these and other brilliant innovators and thinkers in the nascent world of technology supported learning. Image from Pixabay EDEN - the European Distance and E-learning Network - is my spiritual home.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 31, 2016

In a recent blog post, Antonio Teixera , President of EDEN wrote: "By just adding 21st century technologies to 20th century teaching practices we’ll only be diluting the effectiveness of teaching." We will fail if we attempt to use new tools while we teach in the same the old ways. He's right. These are initial thoughts.

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Learning Visions

MAY 9, 2007

Wednesday, May 09, 2007 Cognitive Flexibility Theory & Multiple Representations After reading Clarks comment on my posting from yesterday , Ive been looking into Cognitive Flexibility Theory (Spiro), trying to better understand the notion of "multiple representations." (You Bob Mosher: Performance Support and Learning at th.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 1, 2016

So here's another batch for you: The question the students had to address on this occasion was: 'How can psychological and pedagogical theories be applied to create effective learning spaces?' Again, this content is supported by psychological theory - which she will later be able to use in her formal assignment for this module.

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Learning with e's

MAY 31, 2014

We reach double figures with number 10 in my series of short blog posts on learning theories. My intention is to work through the alphabet of psychologists and provide a brief overview of each theory, and how it can be applied in education. In this post, we explore the work of Leon Festinger , namely social comparison theory.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 20, 2013

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. We now live on shifting sands.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The conference is themed around excellence in teaching of the social sciences, which reflects my own professional and academic background. I plan to explore several of the older social science theories, and compare and contrast these with some of the newer, emerging theories to determine what they offer. We have the technology.

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Learning with e's

JULY 29, 2019

Blogging has always been one of the ways I best express my ideas, and coupled with teaching, public speaking and a number of interviews on video and through podcasting, it has been my main channel of communication and dialogue with my professional community in recent years. 2005) Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 7, 2015

I recently had the pleasure to be interviewed by Bonnie Stachowiack for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast series. We talked about the latest developments in technology supported education and discussed the contents of my new book. It was wide ranging. We also tackled the thorny issue of privacy in the digital age. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 31, 2012

If teachers believe that technology adds no value to their teaching, they will simply not use it. Technical support can be second to none, and all the support in the world on offer, but if the teacher is not convinced of its usefulness, forget it. New technology really has to be shown to be relevant and useful. and Azjen I.

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Learning with e's

JULY 8, 2011

I held the position that the theory of andragogy (Malcolm Knowles) adds very little to our understanding of learning. In some ways, I argued, andragogy theory seems outmoded in the light of recent rapid developments in new teaching methods, learning resources and digital media. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 18, 2014

John Gardner (no relation) once declared ''Too often we are giving our students cut flowers, when we should really be teaching them to grow their own plants.'' Canadian teacher Dave Cormier borrowed from the earlier post-modernist work of Deleuze and Guattari to create his rhizomatic learning theory. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 2, 2011

So here, just for the record are my own, and other people's thoughts on the controversy of Marc Prensky's Digital Natives and Immigrants theory. Children don't need instruction manuals to use technology - they expect the device to teach them. I have yet to see any evidence to support these assumptions. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 1, 2016

So here's another batch for you: The question the students had to address on this occasion was: 'How can psychological and pedagogical theories be applied to create effective learning spaces?' Again, this content is supported by psychological theory - which she will later be able to use in her formal assignment for this module.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

From this, the many definitions and perspectives that were offered made me think that each could be elaborated on, supported with pedagogical theory and opened up for further discussion. by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

From this, the many definitions and perspectives that were offered made me think that each could be elaborated on, supported with pedagogical theory and opened up for further discussion. by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

MAY 12, 2013

These are theories that guide many educators today. Mindful of these theories, I have recently been working alongside students to encourage them to write for an audience. I plan to support other students to achieve successful publication and conference presentations in the coming years. Nothing new in that, you may think.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Photo by Crabchick on Flickr In my #3quotes series I have been citing directly from the texts of education thinkers, because it is important to apply ideas and theories in context. 3quotes from Bruner by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

They create lesson plans, produce resources, devise marking schemes and search around for activities and games they can repurpose to use in teaching sessions. Teacher roles have been moving from didactic to facilitative roles ever since constructivist theories started to enter into teacher training curricula. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 13, 2013

Too often we gather to discuss education, to expound on learning theories and to congratulate ourselves for our pedagogical prowess, and yet we miss the crucial element, the context which should be central to everything we do. We have been teaching this way in schools for years, and it is about time it stopped, was their message.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 20, 2014

tools or user generated content tools are very exciting and I think promise to greatly enhance distance teaching and learning. New tools give rise to new ways to teach and learn and these are guided by our understanding of teaching and learning pedagogy. Terry: Of course the proliferation of web 2.0 What are your views on MOOCs?

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 14, 2015

With these words, Stewart Hase outlines the manifesto for heutagogy , an emerging theory of learning that espouses self-determined study, where 'people have the agency with respect to how, what and when they learn'. I am sure other publications will follow, and they will need to. Reference Blaschke, L. Self publication. Available here.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

More just-in-time performance support tools; "hey, how do I do that?" My brain has a hard time these days parsing dense theory. Sidebar: This, Tony Karrer , is why schools still need to teach good writing. So Im curious: what drove you to revisit theory? Jane -- In theory, Im not against theory.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 18, 2014

John Gardner (no relation) once declared 'Too often we are giving our students cut flowers, when we should really be teaching them to grow their own plants.' Canadian teacher Dave Cormier borrowed from the earlier post-modernist work of Deleuze and Guattari to create his rhizomatic learning theory. Unported License.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 10, 2007

Friday, August 10, 2007 More on Learning Styles Today Mark Oehlert points to Stephen Downes post Professor Pans Learning Style Teaching Method (in particular, the comments thread which I had missed as I typically just read Downes post right through the feed reader). Bob Mosher: Performance Support and Learning at th.

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Coursy

AUGUST 26, 2022

They won't, however, be positioning themselves well for informal learning, performance support, or knowledge management. Teaching knowledge/comprehension-based subjects are more effective if the content is highly structured. This article is published under Creative Commons license. Note that it was written in 2004.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 11, 2015

Canadian educator David Horn, over at the University of British Columbia, provided the moderate voice when he remarked that the hi-tech campus needs to incorporate both high and low tech solutions to support the needs and capabilities of all students. 2015) Learning with ''e''s: Educational theory and practice in the digital age.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

These are some of the most important things I have learnt from my 40 years working in educational technology: Technology doesn't improve teaching. If you are a good teacher, you can teach well in any context, either with or without technology. If you are a poor teacher, no amount of technology will turn you into a good one.

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