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lastrefuge: Helen Beetham on ePedagogy
"If by pedagogy you mean theory of learning, I can recommend a review of e-learning theories and models, carried out in 2004 by Terry mayes and Sara de Freitas, which though it sounds rather old now is in fact relatively timeless. Their conclusion: that the basic tenets of associative/instructive, constructive and situative learning are stable theoretical positions, but that they are expressed in different educational activities and interventions when different tools are available: I think there are probably two candidates for 'new theories of learning' in response specifically to the availability of digital tools and networks in education. They are networked learning, strongly associated in the UK with Lancaster university e.g. http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/ and Connectivism, strongly associated with George Siemens in the UK: http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm
Each Learning Design in this collection consists of a diagram and description. This is based on a method first used in the ICTs and their role in Flexible Learning project . You can browse or search the collection any time. We encourage you to sign up and share your great designs with others, either by contributing ones you create or adapting designs already in the collection .
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You’re going to want to print out this infographic and, at the very least, share it with your fellow teachers and even students. It’s all about the history of education technology and could be used to educate just about anyone on how far we’ve come in a short period of time. We did a more in-depth look at the history of education technology about a year ago but this infographic is a lot more… fun.
The History Of Learning Tools [Infographic] | Edudemic
Is blogging and tweeting about research papers worth it? The Verdict
Guess when I tweeted my papers? Top ten downloaded papers from my department in the last year, 7 of which include me in the author list. In October 2011 I began a project to make all of my 26 articles published in refereed journals available via UCL's Open Access Repository - "Discovery ". I decided that as well as putting them in the institutional repository, I would write a blog post about each research project, and tweet the papers for download. Would this affect how much my research was read, known, discussed, distributed?
iPad Applications In Bloom’s Taxonomy | Upside Learning Blog
This has bubbled up in my feeds not once, but several times now.
IOL – Intra-Organisational Learning – how social media can be used to keep the employees up to date and up to speed on strategic and other internal initiatives and activities FSL – Formal Structured Learning – how educators (teachers, trainers, learning designers) as well as students can use social media within formal education and training GDL – Group Directed Learning – how groups of individuals – teams, projects, study groups etc – can use social media to work and learn together (Note: a “group” could be as small as two people, so coaching and mentoring falls into this category)
Examples of use of social media and learning: by technology and types of learning
The University of Lincoln 11 has made Student as Producer central to its teaching and learning strategy in an attempt to improve the relationship between teaching and research, the core activities of the university. By engaging students and academics as collaborators, Student as Producer refashions and reasserts the very idea of the university. What we did The Centre for Educational Research and Development (CERD) was created in 2007 to lead the University of Lincoln’s Teaching and Learning Strategy, run post-graduate courses for the study of education and practice of teaching, and support the academic use of technology across the university. Since its inception, the theme at the heart of the Centre’s work has been to reconnect research and teaching, the core activities of universities.
Hacking the university - Lincoln’s approach to openness : JISC
Tony Vincent's Learning in Hand - Blog - Ways to Evaluate Educational Apps
I am conducting a series of workshops in Florida and was asked to share a rubric to help teachers evaluate educational apps as part of the workshop. In 2010 Harry Walker developed a rubric , and I used his rubric (with some modifications by Kathy Schrock) as the basis for mine. I kept in mind that some apps are used to practice a discrete skill or present information just one time. Others are creative apps that a learner may use again and again, so it's a challenge to craft a rubric that can be used for a wide span of purposes. I tried to make my rubric work for the broadest range of apps, from drill and practice to creative endeavors, while stressing the purpose for using the app.
Normally a Rich, Visual and Social Learning programme would take months to build; most Curatr Social Learning spaces take about a day to create .
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The manifesto for teaching online is intended to stimulate ideas about creative online teaching. It was written by teachers and researchers in the field of online education, in connection with the MSc in E-learning programme at the University of Edinburgh . It attempts to rethink some of the orthodoxies and unexamined truisms surrounding the field. Each point is deliberately interpretable, and this page is a starting point for some of those interpretations.
student writing: innovative online strategies for assessment & feedback
For today's learners, it just clicks
At the start of this year, 7000 school students in Miami took a maths course delivered entirely by computer. Instead of a teacher, the only adult in the room was a ''facilitator'' who dealt with technical problems and ensured students remained on task.[publication] Is Twitter a Tool for Mass-Edcuation? – e-Learning Blog
Nov 15th, 2011 My publication about “ Is Twitter a Tool for Mass-Education? ” at this year S-ICT conference in Vienna is now online available.The use of technology to enhance learning, teaching and assessment is a key aspect of the staff and student experience at Edinburgh Napier.