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Moving from Teacher to Facilitator | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

It’s in your mind One of the pioneers of adult learning theory, Malcom Knowles , explored the role of adult education and facilitation (andragogy) versus the traditional style of teaching children (pedagogy). Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? So how do you keep it real? Properly d.

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Instructivism, constructivism or connectivism?

E-Learning Provocateur

The popular sequence of events that I have recounted is often represented pictorially as a gradient, accompanied by that ubiquitous table comparing various aspects of the three pedagogies. Sure, the gradient reflects a wonderful growth of ideas, but I think it’s a trap to conclude that the latter pedagogies supersede the former.

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Exploring the Benefits and Challenges of Project-Based Learning

Learning Routes

These days, you might have come across the word ‘project-based learning’ while searching for any college or university. Fortunately, the new teaching pedagogy has incorporated the pattern of developing skills for living in a knowledge-based, technological society.

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Virtual Learning Environments for management and leadership training

Learning Pool

The idea is not only to deliver all the benefits of high-end, classroom-based training but to use technology, backed by insights from learning psychology and sound pedagogy, to extend and enhance training and development. It’s about turning management and leadership theory into practice. Management and leadership theory into practice.

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Digital me, digital you

Learning with e's

Increasingly many of us are spending more of our time online, creating, repurposing and sharing content, searching and consuming content and communicating with others. pedagogies Technology literacies education University of Reading learning Activity Theory digital identity' Unported License.

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Praxis makes perfect

Learning with e's

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. These include a commitment to human well being and the search for truth, and respect for others. What is praxis?

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Blogging: Five of the best

Learning with e's

Interestingly, the post went viral not so much because of the subject matter, but more likely because the image I had inadvertently chosen was the top Google image search hit for 'fire'. Learning Theories For The Digital Age (>22,000 views) Reference Lessig, L. Ten Characteristics Of Authentic Learning (>34,000 views) 7.