Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In my previous post I wrote that even though research shows lectures to be less than effective in helping students to learn, they still persist in higher education. The key question is: What can replace the lecture? Worse still, they may decide not to attend lectures at all. There is no point simply talking at them for an hour.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 20, 2013

Allow me elaborate: Many of our pedagogical theories and much of our practice in higher education is grounded in, and has been derived from, a pre-digital era, when the lecturer or professor was central to the process of education, and where the classroom was the predominant place for learning to take place. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 29, 2019

The Meaning Of Pedagogy (>62,000 views, 8 comments) This was a post I wrote in response to questions from my students while working at the Plymouth Institute of Education. One group asked what the origin of the word 'pedagogy' was, and as I explained, I realised that I needed to capture the idea behind 'leading someone to learning'.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 26, 2019

He explained that a visiting speaker had just phoned to tell him that she was unable to present her lecture. As politely as I could, I explained to him that making his students sit through a full 90 minutes of video was not particularly good pedagogy. Unported License. I was appalled. Cognitive Science 12, 257-285.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 4, 2015

In the room there were lecturers in economics, politics, sociology, psychology and education. The title of my keynote was 'Learning in the Digital Age - Theory and Practice'. Unported License. Unported License. You can look up the Twitter hashtag for the two day event which is #HEASocSci15.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Some loved his earthy, no-quarter given demolition of an host of established theories of learning. What really rankled though with many of those present (and some of those watching via Elluminate) was his critique that academics do not question learning theories, not are they suffiently critical of them. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Universities are replete with lecture capture tools, interactive media, web based content and personal response technologies; students arrive equipped with social media and mobile devices; technology supported distance education has been long established; universities are experimenting with flipped classrooms, gaming and MOOCs.

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