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JULY 2, 2019

Photo by Sylwia Bartyzel on Unsplash Here are some further thoughts on the 'blend' in blended learning: Blends are made of disparate elements. However, these may be complexities that matter more in theory than in practice. Unported License. In other words, we need to bring elements together that might not naturally co-exist.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 8, 2019

Photo by Guillaume Speurt on Flickr Tallinn is one of my favourite European cities. In the meantime, here's the title and abstract of my keynote: Technology Supported Learning: What has been, and what is yet to come In recent years education has been assailed by waves of new technologies, theories and practises. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 2, 2014

This is number 23 in my series on learning theories. I''m working through the alphabet of psychologists and theorists, providing a brief overview of each theory, and how it can be applied in education. In this post, we review the andragogy theory of Malcolm Knowles. Bandura Social Learning Theory 4. Of course not.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

New methods cannot be fully explained or justified by old theories. My interpretation is this: new societal needs require new methods of teaching; new methods of teaching need new theories - theories for the information age. Unported License. In fact we have been facing this challenge for some time.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 31, 2013

My explanation is that praxis is at the nexus - the overlap - between theory and practice. Praxis is the essence of what happens when theory is applied to practice, and can be simplified in this Venn diagram. Theory without action is just theory. Action without theory can be just as hollow. Unported License.

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JUNE 6, 2014

This is number 15 in my series on learning theories. I''m working through the alphabet of psychologists and theorists, providing a brief overview of each theory, and how it can be applied in education. In this post, we take a look at an emerging theory of learning proposed by Stewart Hase and Chris Kenyon, known as Heutagogy.

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Learning with e's

MAY 5, 2017

They will need to draw on their own experiences, both as teachers and as school students, alongside all they have learnt from theory and research, to answer this question. In essence, each student needs to engage with philosophy, politics, economics, sociology, psychology, ethics and global perspectives alongside their notions of pedagogy.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 23, 2015

As a result, there are many educational approaches, a myriad of theories and a bewildering number of perspectives. Social constructivist theory clearly derived from this set of tenets. Aristolean realist theory became the basis for behaviourist beliefs that content was central to education, under the control of experts.

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Learning with e's

JULY 29, 2019

Photo by Florian Klauer on unsplash I have been privileged over the past few years to have garnered a good audience for my writing. 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. Unported License.

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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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DECEMBER 4, 2015

He captures the idea perfectly, and adds the caption 'pedagogy of the unlikely', which perfectly captures what the blogging challenges were all about - finding meaning and learning together through seemingly bizarre and disassociated pairings of ideas, characters or objects. Unported License. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 18, 2014

Ideas are propagated , learning should be rooted in pedagogy, students are encouraged to blossom , and there is a learning ecosystem. Canadian teacher Dave Cormier borrowed from the earlier post-modernist work of Deleuze and Guattari to create his rhizomatic learning theory. Unported License. the teacher).

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

So I would like to present a selection of my students' recent work below, under the heading of learning theories and pedagogy , with the question 'What is Learning?' Unported License. These are just a few of the many reasons why blogging can be a powerful method of learning. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 13, 2013

Too often we gather to discuss education, to expound on learning theories and to congratulate ourselves for our pedagogical prowess, and yet we miss the crucial element, the context which should be central to everything we do. Unported License. This morning, here in Oslo, it was all about the kids. And why not? The learner.

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Learning with e's

MAY 4, 2014

Some physicists argue that the present, the past and the future are much the same thing, but they tend to obfuscate their arguments with strange words such as string theory and quantum foam. Unported License. RSCON5 education future learning pedagogy predictions Reform Symposium school Technology webinar'

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 31, 2012

Teacher beliefs about pedagogy are central to the successful integration of new technologies into schools. 1992) Accessibility and stability of predictors in the theory of planned behaviour. Photo by Steve Wheeler Teacher beliefs by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Don't worry though, there's a theory for everything, including chaotic forms of learning. Post modern theories of society are often difficult to comprehend, largely due to the dense and at times inscrutable style in which post-modernist theorists write. Unported License. How can this approach be implemented?

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 15, 2016

This is number 35 in my ongoing series on learning theories. In this series I have been providing a brief overview of each theory, and how each can be applied in education. In this post, I present a brief overview of Julian Rotter's locus of control theory. The theory explains social dimensions of personality.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Don't worry though, there's a theory for everything, including chaotic forms of learning. Post modern theories of society are often difficult to comprehend, largely due to the dense and at times inscrutable style in which post-modernist theorists write. Unported License. How can this approach be implemented?

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 31, 2013

My explanation is that praxis is at the nexus - the overlap - between theory and practice. Praxis is the essence of what happens when theory is applied to practice, and can be simplified in this Venn diagram. Theory without action is just theory. Action without theory can be just as hollow. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

What theories could be used to explain these phenomena, and how can social/psychological models better our understanding of how people learn when their communication, relationships and learning are mediated through technology? Unported License. What issues in HE teaching and learning are you passionate about? We have the technology.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

A specific theory of learning, Seymour Papert''s constuctionist learning theory , could be applied to explain this. Some thinking has already gone into the pedagogy of makerspaces , and later posts on this blog will attempt to describe how these can be established in schools and universities. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 9, 2018

Photo from Maxpixel The French sociologist Emile Durkheim's study of suicide led to a theory that instability resulting in a breakdown of standards or social conventions can lead to alienation. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 9, 2016

This is number 34 in my learning theories series. Psychologists and cognitive scientists have offered a number of useful theories that aid our understanding of learning. In this series I have been providing a brief overview of each theory, and how each can be applied in education. Bandura Social Learning Theory 4.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 20, 2014

Using Google Scholar and our own networks, we identified and invited the “grandest of the grand gurus” who have researched and published in each of these areas and invited them to summarize that issue, identify theories and practices related to that issue and suggest further research. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Presenting large groups of students with a challenge or a problem is often effective in enabling individuals to tackle concepts or theories in an active manner. Photo by Steve Wheeler.or not to lecture by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

APRIL 18, 2014

Ideas are propagated , learning should be rooted in pedagogy, students are encouraged to blossom , and there is a learning ecosystem. Canadian teacher Dave Cormier borrowed from the earlier post-modernist work of Deleuze and Guattari to create his rhizomatic learning theory. Unported License. the teacher).

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Pedagogy and technology are in a symbiotic relationship, and I have been privileged to witness its development first hand over the last 40 years. Unported License. I firmly believe that the gradual shift from teacher centred education to personalised, learner led education has evolved in parallel to the development of new technologies.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 25, 2016

I talk a lot about the emerging theory of paragogy and how it can be applied. Photos by Steve Wheeler Who's driving? by Steve Wheeler was written in Thurles, Ireland and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. They video recorded throughout the day.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Allen bridges the gap from theory to practice on both training and educational programs. This e-book represents an ongoing exploration as we bring together space, technology, and pedagogy to ensure learner success. 311 Tips on the MANAGEMENT of an LMS or LCMS - eLearning Guild.is You can read the full text of the book here for free.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

Photo Credit: Audrey Johnson from stock.xchng. Im just back from two this week, and presented yesterday at USQs Pedagogies and Learning Conference in Brisbane. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. But Im learning.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Perhaps his greatest contribution to our knowledge about educational technology came in the form of his theory of transfer of learning (a theory that can be applied to learning through problem solving), but he also did extensive work into the optimal design of cognitive tools and learning environments. Unported License.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Photo credit: Risk! Not for pedagogical reasons - pedagogy deals with the individual - but because you're working with organisations. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. So is it a learning campaign or a max strategy?

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 13, 2016

This approach to pedagogy has its roots in Vygotskiian Zone of Proximal Development theory , where a more knowledgeable other, whether teacher, adult or simply a better informed peer, can extend someone's learning experience beyond what they might achieve alone (Vygotsky, 1978). Unported License. Vygotsky, L.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 18, 2015

For me this was a skillful, but relaxed and unobtrusive kind of pedagogy, involving every student in the room, debating, deliberating and generally exploring together the nuances and intricacies of our subject. When teachers wish to promote democratic learning, students are given license to challenge and encouraged to discuss, debate, argue.

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