Learning with e's

JULY 30, 2016

Here's an excerpt from the article, published in the open access journal Future Internet. WhatsApp fulfils many of the requirements of this kind of learning, and its rising popularity—particularly among younger generations—assures it continues to be widely used, and scrutinized, in many forms of peer production and information dissemination.

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Learning with e's

MAY 7, 2013

We now take it for granted that we can upload and share photos and videos, text chat in real time, see and hear each other, or play games together in the same online social space, across vast distances. Unported License. What this will do for massive online courses and other forms of distance education remains to be seen.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 27, 2016

Do we pay indirectly by giving away our information, is this leveraged to make money through advertising clicks, and do we become assets and commodities of the companies that run the social media services? What becomes of the data - especially personal information - that is captured on MOOC platforms? Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 16, 2011

Reading a blog post by Jonathan MacDonald today got me thinking about the vast, untapped potential of the social web to inform, challenge, educate and motivate. Many journals and newspapers found and used my image of McLaren , with me duly credited as the photographer. My photo even graces his Wikipedia page (in all language versions).

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Learning with e's

MAY 20, 2015

We were all excited about the potential of PLEs, their subversive nature and their inherent informality. Several peer reviewed journal articles (and a special issue in Interactive Learning Environments) also appeared, and countless blog posts were published. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

They are unable to impose previous structure onto their learning and are therefore much more flexible and responsive to new information they receive from their exploration of the world. Journal of Cell Science, 121, 1771. Unported License. Perhaps the best way to learn really is to see the world through the eyes of a child.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In these ways, informally, educators around the world are connecting and learning from each other in powerful ways, and all for free. This blog, and many like it are becoming first ports of call for information, the latest news, reviews and discussion groups. Unported License. How many academic educationalists do the same?

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

I'm quite at home in this area of academia, and my thinking is shaped and informed by these disciplines, so I was delighted to be invited to speak. The big four show no signs of relenting in their profiteering, so several years ago I took a very public decision to resign as editor of a major academic journal. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Attached discussion groups supported more in depth and informal discussion about the activity. Students ‘pimp’ their pages, adding colour and textures, favourite images, links to their favourite websites, including mashups to video sharing sites such as YouTube and photo sites such as Flickr. Unported License. Yeomans, P.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 20, 2014

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 ). Unported License. Terry: Of course the proliferation of web 2.0 Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

I argued that due to advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) that traditional student catchment areas would begin to disappear or become less obvious (the death of distance) and recommended that universities turn their attention to blended and distance methods to broaden and extend their reach (the distributed model).

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

With the advent of personal learning networks (PLNs) and social media, people everywhere are now able to learn more or less informally without any connection to university or college. But many more are learning informally, on a daily basis, as access to the web through personal connected technologies increases. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 19, 2015

Smartphones have utterly transformed the way we interact with each other, access information, entertain ourselves and conduct business. Of course, what I write on my blog is not formally checked, a departure from publications in scientific journal which will normally be subject to two or more peer reviews. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 22, 2012

I argued that due to advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) that traditional student catchment areas would begin to disappear or become less obvious (the death of distance) and recommended that universities turn their attention to blended and distance methods to broaden and extend their reach (the distributed model).

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 9, 2011

Why should we charge people for information that they really need to survive? But there are ways of sharing information, there are also ways of marketing where messages become viral, enabling you to exploit the power and potential of social media, to sell your ideas to people. Unported License.

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eLearning Learning Posts

MAY 3, 2010

As a member, I have access to a plethora of sharing, information and intellect as it relates to how individuals are driving Enterprise 2.0 A group of people felt that an organisation should make a far sighted decision decision about their knowledge platform and select one that offers features to scale, rate and manage information better.

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Talented Learning

JANUARY 27, 2016

“Friending” and “following” – users must become “friends” to share deeper information. User profile (and ability to see others’ profiles) with bios, user photos, biographies and status tracking visible in LMS. Personal activity feeds, journals and news streams. License and Pricing Guidelines.

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Experience API

JUNE 11, 2015

Activity Providers can request this information from the LRS if they need it (and if the LRS gives them permission). They’re released under different licenses, use different technologies, have different levels of community engagement and are at different levels of completeness. For more information, click here.

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Learning with e's

MAY 27, 2013

It is clear that tacit, informal knowledge resists explicit, formal knowledge. Citizen journalism for example, is rapidly becoming a key component of contemporary news reporting, appearing in many major TV News channel broadcasts. Everyone who has a smart phone it seems, is a potential photo journalist. Unported License.

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