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Most used EdTech acronym

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Most institutions will have a fancy name for it (at Bournemouth it was myBU – ‘My-Bournemouth-University’ – and Warwick it was myWBS – ‘my-Warwick-Business-School’) or they just refer to the supplier name (Blackboard, Moodle, etc).

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Learning first, technology second

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Ideas range from games based learning , to the use of social media and networking, to simpler approaches such as the use of digital cameras in art or data logging in science. Sometimes, the technology does get in the way of learning and teaching. Is it because you are afraid of being left behind in the ''digital revolution''?

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See-through learning

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They have to spend time thinking about how to get to a discussion group, or how to save content, when their energy and time should be spent learning. Some platforms are better than others of course, but generally many institutional managed learning environments suffer from the same problem - opacity. Reference: John, P.

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

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The Social Web challenges current provision There is a sense from many younger students that the institutional managed learning environments are not popular tools, because they fail in comparison to the more colourful, flexible and accessible social networking tools that are available for free on the internet. Yeomans, P.

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