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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. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. Unported License.

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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.

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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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Top 4 challenges of training a hybrid team

Matrix

Besides, they can discover new ways to blend pedagogy and technology to deliver an engaging and personalized learning experience. One of the major benefits of online and hybrid training is that it allows you to easily share all sorts of useful resources such as videos, photos, presentations, links, etc. . Low engagement.

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Digital literacies online

Learning with e's

Photo by Steve Wheeler I'm currently writing several short online courses for educators, and I've just published the second module in my online series about digital learning. I've written about digital literacies in previous publications, because I consider them vital for the success of any technology supported learning ventures.

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Something old, something new.

Learning with e's

It rides on the back of the willingness of some maverick teachers to practise new forms of pedagogy where learning takes precedence over teaching, and where being a content expert is less important than being a co-learner with one''s students. ''I Another important component of the new ecology is the choice of progressive pedagogy.

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5 Types of immersive technology for training

Matrix

They will not be interested in learning anything that is not aligned with their personal objectives regarding their jobs. Notions of pedagogy, psychology or neuroscience weaved through the relevance of the entire training course, have turned out to positively impact the results of the course. Bite-sized learning modules.