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The Future of Educational Materials: Adapting to the Digital Era

Kitaboo

From then until now, pedagogical instruments have evolved and used explored stones, earth, paper, leaves, and now computer-based materials for pedagogy. Digital educational materials or digital learning resources are instructional tools and materials that can be used in pedagogy for the educator and the student.

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Social, mobile, and personal learning futures

Learning with e's

My argument in my presentation was that social learning, the use of mobile devices, and personal learning environments will all be vitally important components of any future learning ecology. Nor can it replace good pedagogy. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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New spaces, new pedagogies

Learning with e's

Here's the abstract for my keynote: New Spaces, New Pedagogies: Harnessing the Power of Social Media in Education A rapid emergence of social media – the so called ‘Web 2.0’ – has opened up new opportunities for participatory learning in all sectors of education. Unported License. Unported License.

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Teaching Materials Management Systems in Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities

Kitaboo

It scrutinizes the complexities and opportunities that underpin the pursuit of academic excellence and student-centric pedagogy. Integration and Updating of Teaching Materials Within higher education, the enduring struggle of incorporating and refreshing instructional materials is fundamental to effective pedagogy.

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Learning as dialogue

Learning with e's

It was not until social theories such as Vygotsky''s social constructivist model were introduced that education as a whole began to capitalise on the dialogic power of learning. Indeed, the Zone of Proximal Development and other social pedagogy models were largely unheard of in the West before the 1970s. Unported License.

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Digital literacies online

Learning with e's

Crossing the divide: Transliteracy Digital literacies in the age of remix Digital readiness The digital literacies course is available for free on the new ZilLearn platform at this link and follows on from the first module I published last week on personal learning environments. Unported License. Unported License.

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Down under

Learning with e's

The other invited keynote at the event will be Tom Cochrane (Auckland University of Technology, NZ) who will address the topic: Transforming pedagogy with Mobile Web 2.0. Image by Hradcanska Down under by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.