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People, politics and pedagogy

Learning with e's

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. Unported License.

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7 Ways To Solve The Problem Of Loneliness In Online Learning

eLearning Industry

Experts in pedagogy and classroom technology emphasize the need for human connection in online education. Here are 7 tips for combating learner loneliness. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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What is learner autonomy?

Docebo

In many ways, autonomous learning (or independent learning) takes the role of the teacher, educator, or learning admin out of the picture and allows a student to create and follow their own learning process. Orientation to learning tends to be problem-centered and contextual.

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How is E-learning Transforming the Entire Education Sector?

ProProfs

That was the time when rote learning played an important role in the entire education system. . At that time, learning involved in-person instructions, home assignments, exams, use of specific course materials, and classic pedagogy. Today, the education sector is no longer bound to traditional classroom learning.

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14 Articles on MOOCs

Jay Cross

A pedagogy of abundance or a pedagogy to support human beings? Participant support on massive open online courses | Kop | The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning. He would like to see curricula and pedagogy move away from knowledge and skills to be a “pedagogy for human beings.”

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The Challenges of Executive Education

Training Industry

While digital technology has its own added value as a tool offering greater flexibility, customization and more suitable formats, classroom learning is and will remain necessary. Education requires interaction between the learner and the teacher, so distance learning must overcome significant barriers to be as efficient as classroom learning.

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Podcast 24: DNA of High-Impact Learning – With Paul Morton of CrossKnowledge

Talented Learning

So I think we find high-impact learning in the difference between two wonderful terms: pedagogy and andragogy. (Or They think, “Today we’re going to learn reading or science…” Right. But adults are oriented by the need to solve a problem. So access to content isn’t the problem.