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Engaging online learners 1

Learning with e's

Engaging them in online environments can amplify the problem. And perhaps your social presence, if you know how to invoke it. Let's start with collaborative online spaces. 1995) Social presence theory and implications for interaction and collaborative learning in computer conferences. All you have is your voice.

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Engaging online learners 2

Learning with e's

Photo from Pxhere In my previous blog post I remarked that engaging learners can be difficult in any context, but is often harder in online environments. Today, as many of us attempt to teach online, it's often that case that a lot of our energy is expended on keeping students focused and engaged - and at a distance. Wheeler, S.

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50 Posts and Articles that Made Me Think in 2011

ID Reflections

and Social Business Initiatives Are Likely to Remain Difficult by JonHusband Community Management CommunityManagement: The Strategic New IT-Enabled Business Capability by DionHinchcliffe Communitymanagement: The 'essential' capability of successful Enterprise 2.0

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The changing Web

Learning with e's

My own students create a lot of their own content during their study, usually in the form of podcasts, videos, wiki and blog content, and are encouraged to share these publicly online to gain additional feedback. Social software is software that enables people to both read from, and write onto web spaces. and Purdon, M.

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

Learning with e's

Here social media were used to connect people, enabling them to collaborate together in project work, small group learning and online discussions. Further, students enjoy personalising their online spaces, a task that is not particularly easy or positively discouraged within institutional systems.

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Wiki working

Learning with e's

I published two journal articles recently on the use of wikis in teaching and learning, and I'm making them available here on this blog. British Journal of Educational Technology , 39 (6), 987-965. It was published in Learning, Media and Technology journal. The links below allow you to download the full papers in.pdf format.

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EdCast the Twitter of Education Raises 16 Million in Latest Funding Round

Training Industry

“We learn more when we learn together,” according to the “Harvard Business Journal,” and social media has likely increased our need for social interaction. Social media enables users to observe and learn from each other, which psychologists such as Lev Vygotsky and Albert Bandura believed was crucial for effective learning.