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People, politics and pedagogy

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Photo by David Bushell on Geograph In a previous incarnation I was Training Manager for a distance learning project called RATIO back in 1996. RATIO was a three year project funded by the European Union and as a team we were tasked to establish 40 learning centres across the rural areas of South West England.

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What is normal?

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Photo by Alexander Grey on Unsplash A submission to an event or award for a project or team glosses over information that the author considered too normal or basic to cover, but actually helps to condition and ground the work, and therefore makes it easier to understand the ‘where’ as well as the ‘why’ and ‘how’. What is normal?

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What has been and what is yet to come

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Photo by Guillaume Speurt on Flickr Tallinn is one of my favourite European cities. It's fitting then that this year, Tallinn is also the host city for the annual European Association for Distance Learning (EADL). No matter where you are in Estonia, you can easily log in and browse online from any connected device.

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Technology mediated society

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Photo source: Lyncconf Games on Flickr The rapid spread of the Coronavirus and the subsequent social lock-downs by many governments has meant that technology has been thrust to the forefront in many of our daily human activities. What do the technophobe teachers do now to ensure their students continue to learn?

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Distance Education in transit? #EDENchat #EDENchatUS

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What does it take to be a distance educator, and how does this differ from conventional (or contiguous) educators? Can conventional pedagogy be adapted to distance education, or is a complete transformation of pedagogy required for learning at a distance to be successful? GMT (21.00 GMT (21.00

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Interview with Terry Anderson

Learning with e's

He is one of the pioneers of online and distance learning, and currently serves as the editor of the influential online open access journal International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning ( IRRODL ). Second,to follow from Marshall McLuhan the Medium is the Pedagogy (first coined by Cousin (2005).

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Top 68 eLearning Posts from April - Hot Topics iPad Google Buzz

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A Learning Paradigm Shift: Cybergogy - Janet Clarey , April 9, 2010 I was doing some research for an article and ran across a new (to me) term: cybergogy. It’s way cooler than pedagogy or andragogy, no? A Formula for Storytelling in eLearning - Integrated Learnings , April 6, 2010 By Shelley A.