Learning with e's

MARCH 29, 2019

The book is aimed at those working as learning and development professionals in industry, but will also be of interest to any, and all, those working in the world of learning technology, knowledge and education. Cover design by Kogan Page My new book will be published on April 3 by Kogan Page. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 6, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler Humans were once untethered, free to wander the world and explore at will. Seemingly oblivious to the world around them, many people commute to work each day wearing ear buds and headphones to block out the world around them, their visual attention consumed by the small screen in their hands.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 8, 2019

In this presentation I will explore the use of MOOCs, AI, social media, smart mobiles, virtual worlds, augmented and virtual reality, as well as some of the emerging associated theories, to evaluate their effectiveness on pedagogy. Some have penetrated deeply into education while others are still peripheral. Unported License.

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MARCH 28, 2014

Eventually, she says, people will be able to form identities in numerous substrates, such as using a "platform diverse body" (a future body that is wearable/usable in the physical/material world — but also exists in computational environments and virtual systems) to route their identity across the biosphere, cybersphere, and virtual environments.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Over the next few days I will present an abridged, bite size series of exerpts from one of my chapters in that volume: 'Digital Tribes, Virtual Clans'. Tribes use common culture to construct group identity and will employ dialects as a shared but often exclusive form of communication. Tomorrow: The network nation References Adar, E.,

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Mindflash

JANUARY 13, 2012

As mobile technology advances, so will the virtual classroom. The British Virtual College blog has its take. Are Virtual Worlds (Still) Relevant in Education? Once-hyped “virtual worlds” — the Second Life platform chief among them — were supposed to be the future of e-learning, especially in the world of education.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 30, 2016

The Semantic Web would extend beyond the current Web into every aspect of our lives within a richly connected environment, where pervasive technology make the virtual and physical combine and where Web meets world. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

MAY 30, 2019

The fact that any of us can access knowledge, expertise and resources so we can learn at any time and in virtually any place, means that the way we see pedagogy must change. In the industrialised nations of the world, digital is now default. The metrics speak for themselves. To be continued. Unported License.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2016

In the world of paperback novels, a page turner is an engaging book you don’t want to put down. AR is an abbreviation for augmented reality, and VR is used to abbreviate virtual reality. Virtual reality is a fully virtual environment. What is Creative Commons? In e-learning, what is a page turner?

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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. Thiagarajan, S.

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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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OCTOBER 7, 2019

We have traversed several emerging ideas, including the use of virtual teaching assistants (chatbots), ultra-personalised learning and machine intelligence, but the most important component in education is still the human element. In many parts of the world this won't happen at all, usually because of what has been called the digital divide.

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Mindflash

JANUARY 18, 2012

I was struck by how unfamiliar virtually all of the students were with the Federal Reserve. They were disconnected (by unawareness or intentional disinterest) from important information about their world. They run their business without a true understanding of the world in which they operate. How well do you know your world?

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Such small friendship circles may be physical, or virtual, or a combination of both, but for the individual, this may matter little, but remains very much an essence of his or her identity as a tribal member. 2004) Distraction: Being human in a digital world. London: Futuretext. Goffman, E. New York: Doubleday.Rheingold, H.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 20, 2014

The atom represents physical space, content, objects, while the bit represents the digital, virtual world. the world as we experience it, is a very analog place.'' In many ways these changes are slower than those seen in the worlds of leisure, work and business. As Nic states in his book ''.the Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 10, 2012

Immersion in environments such as virtual social worlds (Curtis uses Habbo Hotel as his example) are also argued to be a means where the boundaries of identity can be blurred. by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Do you have any thoughts on this? Reference Curtis, M. London: Futuretext.

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Learning with e's

MAY 2, 2019

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. No wonder video is considered by many teachers to be so effective.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Steve will argue that new technologies and tools present new affordances and expectations, and therefore require new approaches. Do you have the bottle for a debate? You're welcome to join us, f2f or online. Image source Got the bottle?

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Learning with e's

MARCH 18, 2011

One of the new skills that teachers will need to master in the future will be the ability to manage virtual learning spaces. The use of web based resources and networked computers enable students to enter worlds previously inaccessible, allowing them to explore within that imagined world we call 'cyberspace'.

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Learning with e's

JULY 26, 2011

The Reform Club is the London gentleman's club to which Victorian adventurer Phileas Fogg returns after his fictional epic, and highly entertaining journey around the world in 80 days. But reform is here and there are some changes being made in the world of education. That in itself is quite an awesome concept. See you online!

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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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Mindflash

JANUARY 25, 2012

I have been to hundreds of training programs (I group meetings into this total because virtually every meeting contains elements of training in it) that use PowerPoint as the delivery method. We are in a world that is constantly sharing information — in effect teaching, coaching, and educating others. Telling isn’t teaching.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

It's not too hard to envisage this, including 3D manipulation of virtual objects and natural gesture driven learning, and of course the use of augmented reality for learning and context awareness while on the move. eXtending the Web 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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AUGUST 29, 2012

Social media has simply provided an increasingly powerful range of tools to extend personal learning networks (PLNs) to virtually any part of the world. Image source Thinking in networks by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at steve-wheeler.blogspot.com.

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

The world of education is full of rules. A shift in time by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Tags: education paradigm 3D Virtual Learning Twitter FaceBook relativity Ken Robinson. In other words, a paradigm is something we use as a set of rules. Unported License.

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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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Mindflash

MAY 15, 2012

Real World Consequences. Analog World: Some of the most ideal feedback replicates what happens in the analog world. In simulations and virtual worlds, learners are given a chance to explore, manipulate and practice so they can learn in a safe environment. That’s real world feedback. That’s feedback.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The academic world doesn't tend to value blogging as much as it does formally peer-reviewed publications. Closed journals, with the best will in the world, can only ever provide a contrived, time-shifted debate on any given subject. Blogs are different, because blogs are virtually instantaneous. Unported License.

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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. by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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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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