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Great and small

E-Learning Provocateur

One pertinent example for L&D practitioners is pedagogy (formerly paedagogie ) which derives from the Hellenic words paidos for “child” and agogos for “leader” This etymology underscores our use of the word when we mean the teaching of children. Not necessarily teaching, not necessarily children.

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Moving from Teacher to Facilitator | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

It’s in your mind One of the pioneers of adult learning theory, Malcom Knowles , explored the role of adult education and facilitation (andragogy) versus the traditional style of teaching children (pedagogy). Move from being a teacher to facilitator. Learners as Teachers. Experience, truly, is the best teacher!

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Pedagogy vs. Andragogy: Where Many Get it Wrong In Their Learning Strategy

eLearningMind

Most professionals in the learning space have used the words “pedagogy” and “andragogy” before. Broken down, pedagogy and andragogy essentially translate to “child guide” and “man guide” respectively. Someone applying pedagogical theory to a classroom full of professionals might find that their efforts read as child’s play.

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Learning as dialogue

Learning with e's

Many of the earlier learning theories place the learner in splendid isolation. From the neo-behaviourist theories of Thorndike, Watson and Skinner, we were led to believe that learners respond to stimuli and make associations between the two, and that these links represent learning. Unported License. Unported License.

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Blogging: Five of the best

Learning with e's

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. The Industrialisation Of Learning (31,000 views) 8.

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A learning experience isn’t just the content

Learning Pool

As we worked to uncover the origins of the move towards learning experience design, it became clear that it was also a move away from a reductive, content-based idea of digital learning. An idea which meant that ‘learning design’ had come to mean, almost always, design of a piece of learning content.

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Botanical metaphors and learning

Learning with e's

Ideas are propagated , learning should be rooted in pedagogy, students are encouraged to blossom , and there is a learning ecosystem. Independent, self determined learning has also been framed using botanical metaphors. Independent, self determined learning has also been framed using botanical metaphors.

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